from_the_NEK
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With my leg feeling much better since my crash and burn last Wednesday I decided it was time to try it out. What better than an easy hike and ski! Since last year sucked for snow in the NEK lowlands we had to wait a year before returning to the 250' vert hill behind work:
The hillside was freshly logged this Fall which opened up lots lines. However, the logging operation wrapped up too late in the season leaving a lot of shin breakers and not enough time for us to get out and effectively clear debris before snow fell.
The snow depth ranged somewhere around 18-20 inches with a crusty layer about 4 inches down. The crust made graceful turning rather difficult but provided ample protection from the above mentioned shin breakers.
After a long .25 mile (almost flat) skin/snowshoe, we reach the bottom of the bowl and start eyeing our lines.
The guy (TimT) on the tele skis proceeded to skin up and around the hillside.
My skins are in the shop (I really need to get a new setup with fatter skis) so I had strapped snowshoes to my boots for the hike over. Before going up the hill, I figured it would be just as easy to boot up the hill without the snowshoes and not have to mess with carrying them down. Oooops... posthole city (sucked even more with the crust).
Setting the boot track up the steeps:
TimT dropping a knee:
He got deep under the crust on the lower section:
Getting Cruisey:
Into a Stump huck:
My turn:
Closeup through the trees:
Ripping the apron:
Into the stump booter:
Time to go back to the desk:
Thanks to ML and his sweet camera for making the snowshoe out with us to document the shenanigans.
Another 6-10 inches out there will lead to more of this
The hillside was freshly logged this Fall which opened up lots lines. However, the logging operation wrapped up too late in the season leaving a lot of shin breakers and not enough time for us to get out and effectively clear debris before snow fell.
The snow depth ranged somewhere around 18-20 inches with a crusty layer about 4 inches down. The crust made graceful turning rather difficult but provided ample protection from the above mentioned shin breakers.
After a long .25 mile (almost flat) skin/snowshoe, we reach the bottom of the bowl and start eyeing our lines.
The guy (TimT) on the tele skis proceeded to skin up and around the hillside.
My skins are in the shop (I really need to get a new setup with fatter skis) so I had strapped snowshoes to my boots for the hike over. Before going up the hill, I figured it would be just as easy to boot up the hill without the snowshoes and not have to mess with carrying them down. Oooops... posthole city (sucked even more with the crust).
Setting the boot track up the steeps:
TimT dropping a knee:
He got deep under the crust on the lower section:
Getting Cruisey:
Into a Stump huck:
My turn:
Closeup through the trees:
Ripping the apron:
Into the stump booter:
Time to go back to the desk:
Thanks to ML and his sweet camera for making the snowshoe out with us to document the shenanigans.
Another 6-10 inches out there will lead to more of this
