Another mid-winter day in April. High temps in the teens, and another 2 to 3 inches of fresh pixie dust on a reliably packed-powder base.
My wife took a lesson in the morning, so my daughter and I spent some more time working on powder, steeps, and intimidating alpine exposures. We started with a couple of laps off of paradise, warming up in the tracked powder on Hour Glass.
Then we hit the summit platter and skied Whitehorn I, Ridge Run, and Rodney’s Ridge down to Hour Glass again. She has a fair amount of experience skiing steeps, but these were the most intimidating long fall-line alpine exposures she has yet skied. The snow was soft all over and although tracked, still ankle deep after the first pitch or so.
After lunch I made time to drop a couple of steeper chutes by myself. The coverage is so good this year and the chutes are so filled in, it can be sometimes be difficult to tell where one chute or “gully” ends, and another begins.
We finished the afternoon getting in some more vertical lapping the front-side lifts.
My wife took a lesson in the morning, so my daughter and I spent some more time working on powder, steeps, and intimidating alpine exposures. We started with a couple of laps off of paradise, warming up in the tracked powder on Hour Glass.
Then we hit the summit platter and skied Whitehorn I, Ridge Run, and Rodney’s Ridge down to Hour Glass again. She has a fair amount of experience skiing steeps, but these were the most intimidating long fall-line alpine exposures she has yet skied. The snow was soft all over and although tracked, still ankle deep after the first pitch or so.
After lunch I made time to drop a couple of steeper chutes by myself. The coverage is so good this year and the chutes are so filled in, it can be sometimes be difficult to tell where one chute or “gully” ends, and another begins.
We finished the afternoon getting in some more vertical lapping the front-side lifts.