Matt Duffy
New member
A-Basin was surprisingly good today. Why surprising? Because while <BR>Loveland got 8", A-Basin got 3". Strange but true. Still, things were nice <BR>and forgiving. <BR> <BR>Nick found an alternate entrance to a natural half pipe that involves <BR>flying off a lip into about 15 feet of air before landing on the downside <BR>of the half pipe wall. <BR> <BR> From there, after making big, swooping turns into the Land of the Giants, <BR>it was lock-picking time. The configuration of the rock formations there <BR>present countless cool little puzzles, curvy or straight lines through the <BR>cliffy place abound. All steep and with hazards galore. Some of them <BR>involve jumping near, and sometimes far. Fun stuff. <BR> <BR>Below that is a red hot section of tree skiing. The lines were smokin' in <BR>there today. <BR> <BR>The open woods accessible from the Pali Chair were set up pretty nicely <BR>too, but they had seen more traffic and in the occasional spot, cover was <BR>thin. <BR> <BR>The season is still young.