Day 63: Well, sort of -- two runs anyway.
I'm burning out. The lure of summer activities is getting too strong to ignore. I'd planned to ski yesterday, but an all-day off-and-on drizzle kept all of us home, where I spent the day researching kayak camping trip destinations. Today I just wasn't feeling the love, but went up primarily out of a sense of obligation to myself. I'll probably find other things to do until the final weekend of skiing.
Anyway, I joined up with Bobby Danger, Skidog, Pat, Marc_C and Tele Jon.
Only the Tram and Mineral Basin Express were running due to an electrical issue, with the latter on diesel power. Crews had dug out the large electrical box atop Peruvian Ridge, pushing copious amounts of snow off each side of the ridge to access it. Perhaps Little Cloud started later in the day, but I wasn't there to see it.
First run was out into Mineral Basin, but anything ungroomed was unsupportable sludge as it never set up overnight.
Powder Paradise was groomed only two cats wide and thus required short-swing turns that I find challenging on the Goliaths.
Second run was Shot 12 in Upper Peruvian Cirque...
...down to Chip's and Surprise Gully, all of which actually skied far better than Mineral Basin.
The others kept skiing. I headed home, stopping along the way to shoot other photos...
... and film a raging Little Cottonwood Creek filled with snow melt and yesterday's rain to use in a movie at some point.
I'm burning out. The lure of summer activities is getting too strong to ignore. I'd planned to ski yesterday, but an all-day off-and-on drizzle kept all of us home, where I spent the day researching kayak camping trip destinations. Today I just wasn't feeling the love, but went up primarily out of a sense of obligation to myself. I'll probably find other things to do until the final weekend of skiing.
Anyway, I joined up with Bobby Danger, Skidog, Pat, Marc_C and Tele Jon.
Only the Tram and Mineral Basin Express were running due to an electrical issue, with the latter on diesel power. Crews had dug out the large electrical box atop Peruvian Ridge, pushing copious amounts of snow off each side of the ridge to access it. Perhaps Little Cloud started later in the day, but I wasn't there to see it.
First run was out into Mineral Basin, but anything ungroomed was unsupportable sludge as it never set up overnight.
Powder Paradise was groomed only two cats wide and thus required short-swing turns that I find challenging on the Goliaths.
Second run was Shot 12 in Upper Peruvian Cirque...
...down to Chip's and Surprise Gully, all of which actually skied far better than Mineral Basin.
The others kept skiing. I headed home, stopping along the way to shoot other photos...
... and film a raging Little Cottonwood Creek filled with snow melt and yesterday's rain to use in a movie at some point.
