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05/06/01 Temps ran from 50 up to 65 deg f. Sunny Sunday <BR> of hiking and skiing at Alpental. Took 30 minutes to get to the top <BR> of Sessel chairleft where there were a dozen plus climbers learning <BR> rope techniques on the chair hardware. Took a nice break to <BR> enjoy thier views from a lift chair that was convinently parked <BR> facing downhill. (Thanks lifties) Spend an addition half hour hiking <BR> up the boot track to the middle of lower international and took <BR> another long break. Decided to ski out from there as my wife had <BR> had quite enough character building for today! There had been 4-5 <BR> small avys in the bowl, but none were large. Lots of first crosses to <BR> be found on the ride down. Heavy spring snow made for a thigh <BR> burning experience. Carving huge gentle turns was made easier by <BR> staying at a high enough speed that the skis floated up on top. took <BR> out time for a couple of pauses to make it a 20 minute run out. <BR> Will have to work on getting up earlier in the day before the snow <BR> slushes up as much. Counted over 60 cars in the lot and there <BR> were several folks heading all the way up. --TomK