riverc0il
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last tracks of the season! my season went from November 11th-July 2nd and was quantitatively and qualitatively my best season to date at 234 days long. 28 days lift serviced for $531.00 at an average lift ticket price of $18.96 and 10 days earning em' lowering the total per day cost to $13.97. i'd put at least 1/4 of those days in the powder catagory too. i am satisfied to hang em' up now that i have crossed the line from dedicated to obsessed.
fielded a barrage of questions from people while hiking up the TRT. most folks were in disbelief with one woman actually apologizing to me for being a doubted when she reached hojo's and the bowl came into view. silly hikers. :lol:
TRT was just opened up through the bowl on thursday june 30th, so many eager hikers were making their way up the TRT which paralleled the 150 vertical of skiable snow remaining in the ravine. three other skiers joined me on saturday with two of those skiers attempting the patch under chute with mixed results and not many turns.
hikers were baffled at the skiing antics being performed on the snow with several hikers taking tons of pictures. i felt like an animal in a cag at the zoo as i booted up with hikers 10 feet away going for the close up. how weird! i tried to ham it up for them like any good zoo animal should.
the patch was severely undermined at the bottom of the patch with a few hunks of glaciated snow having just fallen off the day before onto rocks 7 feet below the surface of the snow. i eyed that with interest seeing what a fall would result in a slide towards. more of interest and concern though was the undermined section of snow halfway up the patch. a dark and omminous cave on the TRT side and a growing crack near the waterfall on the other side. after quite a few minutes of inspection, skiers on site decided it was safe if we stayed in the center. certainly did not want to imagine a fall off the side though, especially if the undermined section broke. but it looked stable and held out well. probably will be broken by next weekend though.
i made four runs. the first was okay, but not my best. the crazy thing about skiing B/C is not getting any warm up time, especially in high risk locations. you gotta be on your turns from the get go, which is an exhilerating feeling to me. runs 2-4 just got better and better every time and i was feeling really really good about my turns. i figured i was heading up "just to do it" and cross july off the list of things to do, but i ended up having four fantastic runs that was worth every second of hiking with 55 pounds on my back.
pictures are here.
fielded a barrage of questions from people while hiking up the TRT. most folks were in disbelief with one woman actually apologizing to me for being a doubted when she reached hojo's and the bowl came into view. silly hikers. :lol:
TRT was just opened up through the bowl on thursday june 30th, so many eager hikers were making their way up the TRT which paralleled the 150 vertical of skiable snow remaining in the ravine. three other skiers joined me on saturday with two of those skiers attempting the patch under chute with mixed results and not many turns.
hikers were baffled at the skiing antics being performed on the snow with several hikers taking tons of pictures. i felt like an animal in a cag at the zoo as i booted up with hikers 10 feet away going for the close up. how weird! i tried to ham it up for them like any good zoo animal should.
the patch was severely undermined at the bottom of the patch with a few hunks of glaciated snow having just fallen off the day before onto rocks 7 feet below the surface of the snow. i eyed that with interest seeing what a fall would result in a slide towards. more of interest and concern though was the undermined section of snow halfway up the patch. a dark and omminous cave on the TRT side and a growing crack near the waterfall on the other side. after quite a few minutes of inspection, skiers on site decided it was safe if we stayed in the center. certainly did not want to imagine a fall off the side though, especially if the undermined section broke. but it looked stable and held out well. probably will be broken by next weekend though.
i made four runs. the first was okay, but not my best. the crazy thing about skiing B/C is not getting any warm up time, especially in high risk locations. you gotta be on your turns from the get go, which is an exhilerating feeling to me. runs 2-4 just got better and better every time and i was feeling really really good about my turns. i figured i was heading up "just to do it" and cross july off the list of things to do, but i ended up having four fantastic runs that was worth every second of hiking with 55 pounds on my back.
pictures are here.
nope, didn't trash my skis, the coverage was well with only a few rocks to avoid. not that i am ever worried about trashing my skis as others that have seen me charge over rocks can atest!
