After my exhausting day at Silverton, and being my 9th day of skiing, I stuck mainly to the groomers on my final day at Telluride. Weather was in 50's similar to Thursday/Friday, but surfaces were much better with Saturday's new snow. Telluride is never crowded in terms of lines, but today was practically empty. Thus the groomers remained corduroy most of the morning. Lookout and Bushwacker on Chair 9 were fresh groomed and worth multiple runs. And the final run to Mountain village at 2PM on Butterfly had nearly undisturbed corn.
Telluride's alpine terrain above the lifts does offer opportunities for the extreme skier who is willing to hike and can read the San Juan's notoriously unstable snowpack.
Check out the tracks leading into the constricted couloir at lower right!
This peak is farther away, and there are tracks coming out the bottom of its couloir. Due to distance, it's surely wider than the first one and may even be within the range of the most difficult ones I have skied, such as Big Couloir at Big Sky or Main Chute at Alta.
I stayed within boundaries and my only ambitious skiing was a return to Gold Hill.
The open bowl Dynamo on skier's right of the Gold Hill chair funnels into this opening. Snow conditions were variable, with the new snow scraped down to the month old base in the tightest bumps.
Telluride's alpine terrain above the lifts does offer opportunities for the extreme skier who is willing to hike and can read the San Juan's notoriously unstable snowpack.
Check out the tracks leading into the constricted couloir at lower right!
This peak is farther away, and there are tracks coming out the bottom of its couloir. Due to distance, it's surely wider than the first one and may even be within the range of the most difficult ones I have skied, such as Big Couloir at Big Sky or Main Chute at Alta.
I stayed within boundaries and my only ambitious skiing was a return to Gold Hill.
The open bowl Dynamo on skier's right of the Gold Hill chair funnels into this opening. Snow conditions were variable, with the new snow scraped down to the month old base in the tightest bumps.