A calm between storm cycles called for some righteous skiing & boarding on this beautiful Sunday. The snow, being best described as "velvet", allowed for maximum control at high speeds and soft landings from great heights, especially in our Level III terrain.
After a full day of fighting through the seemingly outrageous conditions yesterday, we were greeted by the sun, blue sky, and some low hanging fog that decided not to leave the valley. With increased visibility and 5'' of fresh, very light snow on top of the new 29'' we were in for one heck of day!
Days like today don't come around often. Maybe every other year we see storms like this. We ski and ride powder every single day, day after day after day, but nothing like this. We got destroyed by 23" at our cabin and 29" at our higher elevation snowstake on Soda Mountain. THAT IS INCREDIBOOOOOOOOL! Though Buffalo Pass is Colorado's deepest snowpack, typically, and we are blessed with amazing days....
Thirteen inches of fresh snow graced us with its presence over the past 24 hours and we reveled in its glory! After ten or so days without any new snowfall we were nearing the end of our untracked snow stashes and were quite grateful for the free refill up on the Pass.
Can we get a HELL YEA! All praise to the POWDER GODS after todays dump has reset our world. Anyone coming the next few days has hit the powder jackpot and you should all buy a Powerball ticket right now. It's better to be lucky than...
With three Snowcats filled to the brim with American Airline pilots and stewardesses, I really wanted to find out who D.B. Cooper really is, where he ran off to, and if they had any leads on were to find his money. Unfortunately, not a single person let the cat out of the bag on that one.
You know our guides are doing something right when we are 23 day into the season, a solid week since our last notable snow storm, and we are still skiing fresh, untouched powder! Someone grab em a cold one!
After a day and half in the clouds, she finally went blue for us which made for an overload of fun from first run to last.
Didn't Van Morrison sing something along the lines of "We were out in the wild, Clouds covered the sun, Ere the Snowcat trip was on, And we skied into the mystic"? I'm pretty sure that's how it goes...
Wow! What a day in the backcountry!! Two full Snowcats of our local STARS All Mountain Adaptive crew and our first Level III Snowcat went and played around on Soda Mountain.
