Deep powder at the end of March? What?! It was real and we’ve got pics to prove it. After (yet another) week of cold temperatures and consistent snowfall, Jeremy, Tim, and I went to scope out the slot. We were happy with our estimates of conditions and there was indeed about 20″ of new snow.
We thought there was no way we’d ski the thing because of avy danger, but we brought a rope and harness and Jeremy eagerly volunteered to drop in on belay and get the thing to slide. He got an unconsolidated slough of the top 3 inches to go, but other than that the snow seemed relatively stable, unconsolidated pow.
We looked at each other…smiling. “Let’s hit it!”
It was March 29, 2008 — one of the best ski days I’ve ever had…
mahalie
on Apr 21st, 2008
@ 6:19 pm:
Nice gif! Are there more pics up on Flickr or something, Tim said it was an awesome trip. I also want to see Jeremy’s hand scribbled conditions report!
coop
on Apr 23rd, 2008
@ 6:26 pm:
Well, I gave Tim a cd of all the photos from the trip so that’s pretty much it. It was an awesome trip. I do wish now that I’d taken a picture of Jeremy’s windblown snow-deposit graphs since they were so cool. Beyond that, they were really accurate.