Yet another un-crowded, peaceful day on the mountain today. While the economy continues to struggle, the locals continue to benefit from the lack of crowds on our huge mountain and another great snow year. The 8 inches we got yesterday (on top of the 15 on Monday) were waiting for us this morning and we didn’t even waste the traverse over to Thunderhead. Instead we skied the bottom of the T-Head lift line to cheers from above.
After a quick ride up the lift we were off to Blizzard and the powdery bottom pitch of Norther and on to BC for a fresh look at Sunnyside. While this Hick I know and Flyers Dave snuck into Elkhead trees, I ventured over to the treeline along Sunnyside and down the steep pitch of Elkhorn (I bet a lot of locals don’t even know what that trail is called). Next up was the Wally World Cornice (AKA Black Power) over to Ramrod, which if you don’t know about you really should. And then the trusty South Peak lift gave us a ride up to the top of West Side. Craig’s Ridge was as tasty as ever with huge piles of snow and not tracks at all. After a couple of the old stand by’s we decided to venture to new stashes (at least for me). Kodak was calling Keith’s name so we headed over to Morningside to get some cool pictures in the deep. And DEEP it was! In fact the snow was so nice that we did it twice.
And after pounding out a few more of our favorites, like Billy Kidd Trees and Keith’s ridge we headed to the top for one last top to bottom. Storm Peak Face to Mustache to Sunset to Rudy’s to Vagabond to Lower Concentration to Rough Rider to Beeline and home! A beautiful, cold, blue sky powder day was just what I needed today.
After a quick ride up the lift we were off to Blizzard and the powdery bottom pitch of Norther and on to BC for a fresh look at Sunnyside. While this Hick I know and Flyers Dave snuck into Elkhead trees, I ventured over to the treeline along Sunnyside and down the steep pitch of Elkhorn (I bet a lot of locals don’t even know what that trail is called). Next up was the Wally World Cornice (AKA Black Power) over to Ramrod, which if you don’t know about you really should. And then the trusty South Peak lift gave us a ride up to the top of West Side. Craig’s Ridge was as tasty as ever with huge piles of snow and not tracks at all. After a couple of the old stand by’s we decided to venture to new stashes (at least for me). Kodak was calling Keith’s name so we headed over to Morningside to get some cool pictures in the deep. And DEEP it was! In fact the snow was so nice that we did it twice.
And after pounding out a few more of our favorites, like Billy Kidd Trees and Keith’s ridge we headed to the top for one last top to bottom. Storm Peak Face to Mustache to Sunset to Rudy’s to Vagabond to Lower Concentration to Rough Rider to Beeline and home! A beautiful, cold, blue sky powder day was just what I needed today.
