Just because we've had so few, because it was a gorgeous blue day, and because its Saturday, I decided I had no choice but to "Take 2!" on the powpow. I made it to the Gondy at 8:10 and was in the same spot of the singles line I was yesterday, about 25 people back: so far so good. But I heard from the gate keepers that it was a record First Tracks (locals get 1 free Feb FT with their season pass) so I knew immediately I wasn't headed for the usual routine on Sunnyside... chomp chomp little Pacmen have already been tasting for an hour.
With that I decided I'd take a different approach and ski nothing that I had done yesterday to make my day more fun. And away I went...
Up FourPoints and down a groomed Cyclone, catching powder in the leftside trees, lovely, soft, untracked, and vacant. Down to Dropout, also groomed but just as soft, surfing in and out of powdermounds on the left.
The Storm line was long, even on the backside, and I'd had it in mind that Morningside was likely still very nice and very untouched, so away I went, and it was so nice, and vacant, that I stuck around until 945 when the line grew too big for my liking. In and out of trees and the glades on skiers right, back up to where Keith's aptly named Kodak for its picture perfect shots, I coulda stayed there all day, but had a great three runs to some Dave Matthews, The Who, and Zeppelin.
From my last trip up MS lift I got a off the windblown top and down into Big Meadow, then taking CalfRoper all the way to Rainbow trees above Moonlight. Delightful in the trees, but still a little dangerous... I found a 2' wood ramrod in Wristband that would have gored me if I wasn't taking it slow in the tight grove. But it made me chuckle, as I'd just skied Sundial to Ramrod before that. Sundial won "nicest run of the day", and I'd have done it twice if Wristband hadn't taken my steam and dumped a foot of coldness down my pants... I was having trouble "committing" to my turns in there on the 162. Bugga, it was then quittin time. And I think these new pants need a belt on powderdays...
NO complaints, all in all a fabulous Round 2 to the storm that laid a foot in the Yampa Valley. Winter has arrived! And Craig's off work for the next 2 days so I'll be back at it tomorrow for some turns with the boys! I might just have to miss the Carnival festivities... nothin' we ain't seen before.
-See you In The Deep!
