There's nothing better than waking up to a foot of fresh on Christmas! The presents can wait (unless you're us, and have to work on Christmas, so you opened your presents on Christmas Eve!), the powder is calling!
Craig had to work, so I was solo today, and other than having to ride the Gondola with grouchy, loud, hungover 20-something locals, it's often nice to have a day of silence in the snow. From then on, every lift ride was pleasant, talking to folks from Orlando, San Antonio, Cody, and even Australia, wishing everyone a Merry Christmas with a smile.
I had one mission today and one mission only, enjoy, and find some new openings, and I got buried several times on the Sunnyside in the 14" inches since yesterday!
In spots, it wasn't that deep for sure, but if you know where to look, it was above the knees. Being Christmas, it was empty; the locals seemed to head right for Pony, so I was virtually all alone on the other side.
I started with a gloriously deep run down a bumpy Norther, laughing at my solitude and headed right for Four Points. Sunset had been groomed, so next I headed there, also up to my knees, and then into the Moonlight Trees - very fluffy, very deep (the rope had been dropped today I think), and so I took my first video.
Craig had to work, so I was solo today, and other than having to ride the Gondola with grouchy, loud, hungover 20-something locals, it's often nice to have a day of silence in the snow. From then on, every lift ride was pleasant, talking to folks from Orlando, San Antonio, Cody, and even Australia, wishing everyone a Merry Christmas with a smile.
I had one mission today and one mission only, enjoy, and find some new openings, and I got buried several times on the Sunnyside in the 14" inches since yesterday!
In spots, it wasn't that deep for sure, but if you know where to look, it was above the knees. Being Christmas, it was empty; the locals seemed to head right for Pony, so I was virtually all alone on the other side.
I started with a gloriously deep run down a bumpy Norther, laughing at my solitude and headed right for Four Points. Sunset had been groomed, so next I headed there, also up to my knees, and then into the Moonlight Trees - very fluffy, very deep (the rope had been dropped today I think), and so I took my first video.
From the top of Sundown I did Keith's ridge - deep, untracked - to Flintlock - ditto, to Southpeak and straight to Westside, groomed with about 6" plus, riding the left treeline, which had about 10". Snapped another video of the lone pair of skiers gliding beside me. Not another soul in sight!
Back up, I beelined it for Sundial, oops, a little deep and untracked, couldn't kick out of there! One track before me, every time I stepped off I sunk to my knee. Laughing and out of breath, I popped out on Tomahawk and headed straight for Buckshot-Ramrod trees, and was breaking trail the whole way down. Southpeak again, this time to Rolex. Hero bumps up at the top turned into powder loveliness on the right side about half way down, and completely untracked on the bottom glade.
Losing steam I headed to Sundown and traversed to the Mustache Meadow, always untracked at 10am, and headed on down. They opened up the alternate routes down, so I had a first run down Concentration (powdery goodness) and into Giggle Gulch. Good times.
The storm has broken up for now, but it looks like we'll be hit again for two more days of goodness, so we'll see you In the Deep all week!
Merry Powder Christmas! Hope you have a good one!
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