Yes it's true, the 9 days on the road has finally come to a close. We ended up skiing a short fun backcountry run right outside of Glenwood Springs on Friday and taking the day off Saturday. We drove to Ouray on Saturday night and climbed out of the truck next to the ice climbing right outside of there. Daylight Savings time had begun much to our dismay and we got right on the road getting over to Red Mountain to ski the ever famous "Sam's Trees" to end the whole thing. We approached it from a different route than at the beginning of the trip which put us right at the top of the chute and was incredibly easy too! The snow was absolutely superb (18"?) and the avy danger was virtually non-existent which is of course a weird thing for the San Juans. Needless to say I'm back here at school and loving every minute of it... NOT!
Enjoy the video and pics below and remember to have fun,
Luke
2 comments:
Luke -
We are headed down to Monarch Pass on Friday for a weekend of skiing powder and were wondering a)where did you park and sleep in the truck (we want to do the same) and b) where did you ski and did you use a guidebook/map to pick your spot? Can you reply in the comments?
MT
Sorry to see this so late. We ended up sleeping on the pass in a pullout. A cop pulled up to see that we were ok, but otherwise it was all fine. Then we slept down in town at the walmart just because it was sooo cold. i hope you guys had a good trip!
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