With the lack of snow we have had this year in Colorado we decided to pursue snow elsewhere. Fortunately for me this post is called "
Off The Grid", so Paul and I went off the grid to find some snow.
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| Photo: Cory Arola |
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| Photo: Cory Arola |
Jan 2, 2012 we met up in Georgetown and headed up to Mt. Trelease. We carried up out boards in ski mode until we got to enough snow to skin. After skinning up partway I had trouble with the skin on my right ski not sticking anymore...
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| Photo: Paul Bourdon |
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| Photo: Cory Arola |
Paul continued up to the top of the run, I changed over and had to hike about 100 yards to the top of the line. We hydrated and got ready to drop. It was pretty awesome riding a wind crust over 14 inches of facets, almost like a pow day after riding in resorts all season.
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| Photo: Paul Bourdon |
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| Photo: Cory Arola |
At the bottom of the line we changed back over to tour mode, luckily my skins adhered this time. Tip: keep them warm in your coat so the glue works. Motoring back up an already set skin tract we gain the top of the line again and ate a lunch.
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| Photo: Paul Bourdon |
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| Photo: Cory Arola |
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| Photo: Cory Arola |
Changing over we dropped in for a second run....
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| Photo: Cory Arola |
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| Photo: Paul Bourdon |
We road as far as the snow would allow then hiked the rest of the way back to the truck.
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| Photo: Cory Arola |
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| Of course the Lucky Bunny Photo: Cory Arola |
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| Photo: Paul Bourdon |
It was a great way to start the year off!
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| A look at our turns Photo: Cory Arola |
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