Merry Christmas

Tony Crocker

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It's really Patrick's year to do this...

In last year's Christmas cards I enclosed the following:

In the first month of ski season El Nino gave to me:
Fresh tracks at Snow Summit on October 30.

In the second month of ski season El Nino gave to me:
The top of Mammoth from Paranoid to Rockgarden
With November depth more than most years in January.

In the third month of ski season El Nino gave to me:
Big Bear skiing on my birthday,
Day and weekend vertical foot records at Mammoth,
And the best holiday skiing at Mt. Baldy since 1993.

In the fourth month of ski season El Nino gave to me:
Ski journalist Western Winter Summit at Tahoe,
Including 4 feet of snow in 18 hours at Northstar,
Then a road odyssey from Spokane to Lake Louise
After the Tropical Punch poured rain in B.C.

In the fifth month of ski season El Nino gave to me:
Return to good snow at Tahoe President?s weekend,
New boots and pants for Andrew on his semester break,
8 powder runs in the new Chutes at Mt. Rose,
And face shots at June Mt. to cap February.

In the sixth month of ski season El Nino gave to me:
The annual festivities at Snowbird?s Iron Blosam,
Adam?s spring break after Whistler?s record drought
Was broken by 33 inches new in the 3 days before we arrived,
Extremely Canadian?s clinic to get us to the goods,
And another day of untracked with TLH Heli.

In the seventh month of ski season El Nino gave to me:
My third big April 9 powder day at Mammoth,
Skiing Varmint?s Nest for the first time in 20 years,
Backcountry last run to Hole-in-the-Wall,
And a perfect corn snow day at Mt. Baldy.

In the eighth month of ski season El Nino gave to me:
Another sunny Saturday at Mammoth with a foot of new snow,
Huevos and Philippe?s skiable in 2005?s deep coverage,
North Chute under the Snowbird Tram was May?s last run to ski.

In the ninth month of ski season El Nino gave to me:
Over a third of Mammoth still open on June 18,
A scenic drive to Bodie and over Sonora Pass with Tioga still closed,
And a hike up the Mist Trail with Andrew in Yosemite.

In the tenth month of ski season El Nino gave to me:
Adam and girlfriend Aislinn?s hike of Half Dome on July 1,
A 20K vertical ski day for me at Mammoth on July 2,
Then we all rafted big whitewater on the river Tuolumne.

In the eleventh month of ski season El Nino gave to me:
A return to Mammoth after the lifts had closed,
But 1300 vertical from Cornice to St. Anton still had snow,
Enough for a Northern Hemisphere grand finale.

In the twelfth month of ski season El Nino gave to me:
A winter in the Andes as snowy as in the Sierra,
An Extremely Canadian week in Las Lenas Argentina,
3000+ vertical bowls and chutes of powder and corn,
Adam?s Las Lenas group is featured in January 2006 issue of SKI.
 
Tony Crocker":3mjpjcja said:
It's really Patrick's year to do this...

In last year's Christmas cards I enclosed the following.

Marc has better poetry skill than I do, but I can contribute the pictured version.

http://www.firsttracksonline.com/boards ... php?t=2308

We would just need to add one of picture from Jay in October 06 , Tremblant in November (no camera) and Fortune in December (no pics again).

Merry Christmas to all and hope that the New Year while be a snowy one in all ski regions and so I can also hear my work collegues bitch about our beautiful weather. :lol: :twisted:
 
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