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I was still tired from the previous 2 days of skating, skiing and partying until the wee hours, so I didn't roll out of bed until after 8am. Message from Acid Christ stating that he's on his way to Greek Peak. Next message says he's there and it looks good, he'll try to leave something for me. This lights a fire under my butt and I quickly do my morning rituals and pack up the Subaru and head out to da Peak.
Acid Christ had pillaged Olympian, which boasted about a foot of fresh powder. He met me as soon as I was booted up and up we went to pillage for another 5 runs while it was closed. AC was not in uniform, so he was just another skier poaching closed trails.
An operations dude on a snowmobile saw us, but couldn't get close due to the pitch of that slope. We waited him out and when he left, we continued down. The next run we headed over that way and saw ski patrol behind us on the lift, so we hurried over and cut in through Odyssey so we wouldn't be seen ducking the rope. I snagged the rope and knocked over the closed sign on the cross trail. oh well.
I got half-way down Olympian and had to stop to regroup. I look up, and there's patrol, on their way down with a load of lollipops/boo. They are slow, so we bolt.
Next run, we see that the patrollers are friends and we wait for them at the top of the lift. They said "was that you?" and I said "what? No...I would never ski a closed trail". We all laughed and opened up the trail for all to ski.
It was time for us to move on to pillage other stashes.
So we headed over to chair 4, thinking that Zeus may be good, as it looks great the night before. The wind had taken a toll on it, and they were making snow on Herc, so there were snowmakers on snowmobiles, so we moved eastward.
Alsops glade was closed, but it skied better than when it was open with 3" of snow on it last year. Apparently others found it before us, but there was plenty of fresh snow along the way.
Mars hill had plenty of powder
Arethusa was closed with beautiful untouched snow on it when we got to it. We couldn't NOT ski it.
These are our tracks (mine on the far right of the trail)
Others admiring this beautiful trail
http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak ... 3487_n.jpg
The only problem was the tall burdock at the bottom. Acid Christ wiped out near the bottom and rolled into the burdock. I picked burdock balls of velcro off his jacket on the lift ride up.
This is where AC biffed
After a few runs
smilin
It was sunny and not too windy on the east side. AC had to go tend to family matters, but I stayed out for another hour and skied with a friend. I lapped Alsops and Arethusa a few more times and then we headed back over to Chair 1 and did a run on Iliad. The wind was much stiffer on that side and wind chills were dropping, so I decided to call it a day and go home and eat lunch before venturing out on my touring skis out my back door with the dogs.
Acid Christ had pillaged Olympian, which boasted about a foot of fresh powder. He met me as soon as I was booted up and up we went to pillage for another 5 runs while it was closed. AC was not in uniform, so he was just another skier poaching closed trails.
An operations dude on a snowmobile saw us, but couldn't get close due to the pitch of that slope. We waited him out and when he left, we continued down. The next run we headed over that way and saw ski patrol behind us on the lift, so we hurried over and cut in through Odyssey so we wouldn't be seen ducking the rope. I snagged the rope and knocked over the closed sign on the cross trail. oh well.
I got half-way down Olympian and had to stop to regroup. I look up, and there's patrol, on their way down with a load of lollipops/boo. They are slow, so we bolt.
Next run, we see that the patrollers are friends and we wait for them at the top of the lift. They said "was that you?" and I said "what? No...I would never ski a closed trail". We all laughed and opened up the trail for all to ski.
It was time for us to move on to pillage other stashes.
So we headed over to chair 4, thinking that Zeus may be good, as it looks great the night before. The wind had taken a toll on it, and they were making snow on Herc, so there were snowmakers on snowmobiles, so we moved eastward.
Alsops glade was closed, but it skied better than when it was open with 3" of snow on it last year. Apparently others found it before us, but there was plenty of fresh snow along the way.
Mars hill had plenty of powder
Arethusa was closed with beautiful untouched snow on it when we got to it. We couldn't NOT ski it.
These are our tracks (mine on the far right of the trail)
Others admiring this beautiful trail
http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak ... 3487_n.jpg
The only problem was the tall burdock at the bottom. Acid Christ wiped out near the bottom and rolled into the burdock. I picked burdock balls of velcro off his jacket on the lift ride up.
This is where AC biffed
After a few runs
smilin
It was sunny and not too windy on the east side. AC had to go tend to family matters, but I stayed out for another hour and skied with a friend. I lapped Alsops and Arethusa a few more times and then we headed back over to Chair 1 and did a run on Iliad. The wind was much stiffer on that side and wind chills were dropping, so I decided to call it a day and go home and eat lunch before venturing out on my touring skis out my back door with the dogs.
