Day 8: C-c-c-c-c-c-cold!
It never got out of single digits today. I spent the morning buzzing around the mountain with Bobby Danger, Skidog and Amy. A sample of Harold's yielded about an inch of dust on thick crust. Groomers were typical manmade snow. Not exactly my preferred conditions. The only blizzard on the hill today was of the man made variety.
Bobby and Matt decided to boot up Jitterbug to see what Greeley Hill looked like.
The reports that came back were positive, so Amy and I joined Bobby for a lap back there after lunch. Now, why would someone bootpack directly up a 43-degree slope?
Because the High T still isn't cleanly skiable, and it's the only way to gain access to the ridgeline to ski this:
and this:
and this:
and this:
and this:
With the current dry weather pattern, today was another one of those days when local knowledge of what you could theoretically get to, from where, really paid off.
It never got out of single digits today. I spent the morning buzzing around the mountain with Bobby Danger, Skidog and Amy. A sample of Harold's yielded about an inch of dust on thick crust. Groomers were typical manmade snow. Not exactly my preferred conditions. The only blizzard on the hill today was of the man made variety.
Bobby and Matt decided to boot up Jitterbug to see what Greeley Hill looked like.
The reports that came back were positive, so Amy and I joined Bobby for a lap back there after lunch. Now, why would someone bootpack directly up a 43-degree slope?
Because the High T still isn't cleanly skiable, and it's the only way to gain access to the ridgeline to ski this:
and this:
and this:
and this:
and this:
With the current dry weather pattern, today was another one of those days when local knowledge of what you could theoretically get to, from where, really paid off.
