tseeb
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After being home for Easter from last week’s trip for about 36 hrs, I met friend in Tracy at 6 AM Monday for this week’s trip. We skied and watched Freeride Comp at KIrkwood and got to see many crazy lines skied, some big rocks jumped off, a few crashes and some skiers throw backflips and 360s coming down the always closed to the public Cirque.
Evil E/NE wind was there, but not that bad in most places and the sky was an unreal blue. Friend from Minden joined us in PM and will meet us at Heavenly today. Then back to KIrkwood and home on Wed.
KIrkwood reported 2” new on Mon (May have fallen Sun after AM report) on top of 24” the previous 4 days. We skied 915-345 with a couple of breaks to watch the Comp. My watch counted over 23K. Great snow on Cornice groomers and in windsift on the Wall. The first time returning from Backside, the ropeline for Comp forced us into One Man Chute where a couple of people were side-slipping but I thought it had very good packed powder. The second time we went further right, hiked above Moon Bowl and came down in the corner where I found some steep untracked along left edge. Snow lower down was W-facing, out of wind and getting sun-affected.
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Start of Freeride Comp was just right of middle at top.
We stopped by to check friend’s KIrkwood cabin that is leased through 4/15. Tenants are supposed to be paying for a walkable path to be cleared to front door. Snow is gone in places and generally 1-2’ deep at our cabin in So. Tahoe.
Evil E/NE wind was there, but not that bad in most places and the sky was an unreal blue. Friend from Minden joined us in PM and will meet us at Heavenly today. Then back to KIrkwood and home on Wed.
KIrkwood reported 2” new on Mon (May have fallen Sun after AM report) on top of 24” the previous 4 days. We skied 915-345 with a couple of breaks to watch the Comp. My watch counted over 23K. Great snow on Cornice groomers and in windsift on the Wall. The first time returning from Backside, the ropeline for Comp forced us into One Man Chute where a couple of people were side-slipping but I thought it had very good packed powder. The second time we went further right, hiked above Moon Bowl and came down in the corner where I found some steep untracked along left edge. Snow lower down was W-facing, out of wind and getting sun-affected.
Posted without a keyboard and goodphoto editing tools.
Start of Freeride Comp was just right of middle at top.
We stopped by to check friend’s KIrkwood cabin that is leased through 4/15. Tenants are supposed to be paying for a walkable path to be cleared to front door. Snow is gone in places and generally 1-2’ deep at our cabin in So. Tahoe.
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