(Kate is skiing the Dynastar Altirides/01s, and I the BC 100s/01s)
Local haunt that got hammered by the storm and regularly gets big lake effect, within 1 hr of home and one of our favorite climbing crags. Bluebird day, couple feet new, a little wind hammered and drifted but still very soft. This isn't big mtn skiing, but at .9 miles from the car, and 900’ vert with first part being 1/4 mile of low angle touring, there are some decent steeps, fun chutes and drops in between the cliff bands. Plus the trail up is a great ski in itself. Good area to run laps. We added to the explorations of last season (wasn't until Feb. last year!) of the steep and rocky area and found a little saddle between mini peaks with a bunch of rocky chutes.
Skinned and grinned , and booted, wallowing up steep ramps.
to ski down in the light goodness
find waldo ...
slough beating me down ...
Kate rocks at taking pics!
Drop
Faceplant Good thing there was so much snow!
Brief review of the 01s, wow – I knew I was giving up something skiing the HHs in the BC (even moving the pivot points), but never imagined how much less effort! Very comparable performance to HHs pos. 4. The BC100s floated, never plowing snow, breaking trail in nearly 2’ of new snow. Similarly, Kate reported that the Altirides (touring version of the Dyna 4800) had no problem in the deep when she took the lead breaking trail. Two thumbs up on the 01s and the new touring setups.
Classic lake effect clouds on the way into town(6” more predicted tonight) looming over West End Brewery, brewers of Saranac beers (drinking a Season’s Best Nut Brown Lager right now ).
A damn good day on skis !!!
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