Matt Duffy
New member
<I>(Note from the Administrator: This report was originally posted on 1/29/00. Due to our move to new servers, the date and time attributed to this post is incorrect.)</I> <BR> <BR>So yesterday I had skied all day, then went to work on no sleep through my 12 hour shift- during which I decided to take the rest of the week (2 nights) off. I got out of work and headed straight back to Smugglers. I met my friend Kenny there and we skied all day. He wondered if I wouldn’t be too tired, but as it turns out I wore him out and could have taken another run to boot. M1 was closed, limiting us to Sterling & access to more untouched woods than we could shake our sticks at. Boo hoo. <BR> <BR>Kenny is the joking & razzing type and on the first lift ride was in rare form. He rides a snowboard and was relentlessly cracking with sarcasm. He kept taking joky little jabs at me about how skiers ruin the snow and that skis are no good in powder and poles are for the handicapped and several other things that went in one ear and out the other. First run, I convinced him to make the traverse out to the back bowls to get freshies. He didn’t make any more ski comments after that. For some reason, he wanted to stay on a trail for the next run, so we took Bootlegger. It was all chopped up piles of fluff everywhere; and the pitch on it is actually steep for a marked trail. I skied it’s full length in about 10 seconds, making fewer turns than ever on it. No, I wasn’t just tucking, I made three of the biggest, fastest swooping turns I’ve ever made through all those poofy mogul smoke bombs. I was teetering on the edge of control on that one. <BR> <BR>Another trail we did was Exhibition. More of the same fluffy white clouds of powder to scream through, only with more entertainment thrown in. All the ledges were pretty much filled in which meant instead of taking them one at a time, you could leap over entire little bands of them with ease. <BR> <BR>The rest of the day was all woods. There were still remnants of yesterday’s ashes, but being a couple of pyros, we still found vast potential for forest fires to ignite. There are still some places with major, major untracked and they probably will stay that way until I get out there again. It is good to have had a pass there for six years of exploration. It really pays off during weather events like this one.