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Last Powder of the Season

Posted on by Smoke

Well, this is it.  Last powder of the year.  Check out the clock on the hut there.  We’re heading up the lift 15 minutes early again, and there’s 20cms fresh today.

Oh, and Chevs got out for a bit of it, and SHE’S SKIING ON HER OWN!

Well, a little bit, but she did go 10-15 feet and stopped without falling over, more than once.

I ran into some other guys with touring gear, and managed to invite myself along for a quick outta bounds run.

Things got out of hand pretty quickly.  With so much snow over the past week, everything is well filled in and the pack is bomber.  Perfect for charging the bigger lines off the shoulder.  Marshall here dropped this nice 30 footer (and he thought it was only ten.  Surprise!).

Tracks.  My tracks.

Marshall, all smiles.

It doesn’t really show all that well, but that real skinny line just left of center isa 50 degree slot I’ve been looking at for a very long time.  Finally…

And since tomorrow is Easter, have a look at this bunny.

Powder, anyone?

Posted on by Smoke

Before you dismiss this first pic as total crap, check out that dark blob center right.  That’s someone’s helmet.  And they’re wearing it.

A sick day today.  Over 20cms last night, it’s still snowing, the wind loaded it up DEEP on the lee slopes, and the lift opened 20 minutes early.  Conditions were savage though.  Cold, foggy, windy.  I felt like I was landing on Utah beach on June 6th or something coming up for my first run.

Fluffy and light under the chair, some random skier hittin’ it/

Another random skier getting early turns under the lift.

It was all face shots today.  Nobody around either.  I got first tracks down runs ALL DAY LONG.  Here’s a couple of boarders going down the Great Wall.

..and here’s some of my tracks.  This was taken at 2:30 in the afternoon.  The other tracks on the left are mine from about 11 am.  I don’t know why nobody skis here, but I like the fact that they don’t.  More for me.