Sled Touring

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Smoke

Well, not full on sled touring, but we did manage to get these two to run us out towards Apex Proper.

I got dragged ways on my butt, though. Thanks to Pete and Wade for the ride.

Yep, it’s a little tour sesh with my buddy Schmidtty

I think it was worth it, don’t you?

We skied a couple of laps out there. The preceding shots were on the Zorro line, and then we dropped into Apex Mainline Left.

A short hike out (you can see remnants of last months big avvie behind Terry there), and we got ANOTHER run on the Pencil.

Steep and deep.

Here’s some vid to show you what I mean.

A Rare Sunny One

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Smoke

Apex is usually known for lots of sun, and less snow. Well, this year it’s been anything but true.

Today is one oddball day this season. Blue skies. Fresh snow is sort of normal these days, but clear skies are definitely not.

I have no idea what this is about. all I can tell you is that I saw her, and I had to have her…picture. It wasn’t until I downloaded the pics that I even noticed the funny hat.

After noon I went for a little tour out back.

Canadian was doing some high altitude flight school stuff, but that wasn’t what I was out looking for.

There was a solid class 3 slide a couple of days ago, so I wanted to go check it. I’m standing above a 2 meter crown, and it ran across for about 600m, ripping right to ground. I guess that was the early December dump waking up again. Things to ponder…