JD
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Well, it snowed for the past 48 hours and I had some friends in town so we went up and toured Spruce one last time before the lift opened today. The Snow was spectacular. Everything blown in flat. Deep base and somewhat firm pow. Really let you rip into it. We skiied Whirl Away for a warm up and it was dreamy. I love the contours on that trail. Then we skiied smugglers and it was amazing. The sun busted out on us as we dropped in and we bombed top to bottom. Then we slipped into the woods just before the lifts started unloading. On our way to our decent we got a real good look at profanity and it looked ready. We skiied down to the road in 10-20 inches of great snow and only shook one slough slide free at the choke of this paticular gully, but the snow is generally very stable. Great runs on spruce. Then I cruised up the Gondi side solo and up the boot pack which was well beat in. A few joeys has skiied the boot pack back down and I was wondering how many people were ahead of me. I get to profanity and see a man and his 3 kids at the first choke, where it is still a bit brushy, and his kids were having a hard time. I cruised down to them and chatted for a bit, letting his kid get down out of the way. We skiied the next pitch and stopped together again. He says something to the affect of, "If my wife only knew where I had these kids...." I was thinking, yea, she should be pissed. It was cold today. They had nothing. No pack, water, food, first aid, extra layers, or even a clue where they were going.
"where you guys heading after this?", I asked
"don't know, where do you suggest we go?", he replied.
Unbelievable. So I pointed out the roof of taft and told him to head for there and you'll hit the LT. I then took the advantage of the situation and passed them, and skiied the bottom of the chute out untouched, and it was Sha-Weet.
Skins back on and heading up towards the Adams apple, I looked up into Hour Glass to see it was passable, but techy, and there was a snow boarder climbing out of the hour glass. Kicking in steps on the very steep entrance, it looked like he dropped in, got to the crux, chickened out and was trying to climb back out the way he came in. I sat there for a while to make sure he didn't fall. It would have been a LONG fall. Once he got into the upper pow field I cuirsed on, Saturday for sure. Found my spot and skiied down to the road . The line was untouched until someone came in from the right about 1/2 way down. I am now exausted and carbo loading for what promisses to be a great day of shredding tomorrow. Enjoy the pics.
"where you guys heading after this?", I asked
"don't know, where do you suggest we go?", he replied.
Unbelievable. So I pointed out the roof of taft and told him to head for there and you'll hit the LT. I then took the advantage of the situation and passed them, and skiied the bottom of the chute out untouched, and it was Sha-Weet.
Skins back on and heading up towards the Adams apple, I looked up into Hour Glass to see it was passable, but techy, and there was a snow boarder climbing out of the hour glass. Kicking in steps on the very steep entrance, it looked like he dropped in, got to the crux, chickened out and was trying to climb back out the way he came in. I sat there for a while to make sure he didn't fall. It would have been a LONG fall. Once he got into the upper pow field I cuirsed on, Saturday for sure. Found my spot and skiied down to the road . The line was untouched until someone came in from the right about 1/2 way down. I am now exausted and carbo loading for what promisses to be a great day of shredding tomorrow. Enjoy the pics.
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