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Hope your day was better than mine!
Test and Trip Reports: How Did They Work? · 13 posts
rockaukumTue Nov 09, 2010 3:58 pm
Nothing but a great day! Started out after the first "real" snow fall of the season. Turned on to the road to find about a foot and half! Decided to chance it and drive up a bit. Truck did good and dragged a bit on the underside.
Stopped when the road turned downhill for fear of the return trip. Skinned up planning on going for the ridge but found this instead.
As I got to the ridge the snow was wind blown. I did a mitt test and here is what I found. The bottom layer seemed fine but there were two layers on the top. Always good to check and be safe.
It even started a very small fracture while climbing, near the ridge.
Enough of the safety talk. Here is the first run.
Second run.
Lunch vista.
Finishing up the day with these.
All in all a great way to start the 2010 season!
doughboyshredderTue Nov 09, 2010 6:59 pm
I wish my day had been that good.
EricWTue Nov 09, 2010 7:26 pm
I installed surveillance cameras in a car wash.
sammerTue Nov 09, 2010 10:46 pm
Nice!
I spent my day making shepards pies (1 for dinner and 3 for the freezer) and watching the intermittent snow fly.
Hope I can have a day like yours soon.
sam
sammerTue Nov 09, 2010 11:24 pm
Oh, and glad to see you played it safe sticking too the low angle tree runs.
Early season avalanche is something most people don't think about.
Everybody's too excited to be out skiing in the first pow of the year!
Conditions look ripe for a nice slab! (even with the shallow snow pack)
sam
skidesmondWed Nov 10, 2010 6:14 pm
went to work....
But I worked from home. Some day I'll have a day like that.
IdrisThu Nov 11, 2010 1:50 am
Computer and vehicle failures - not a good day.
But this is the view from my office window this morning
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skidesmondThu Nov 11, 2010 3:57 am
Is your office an airplane? Work on a mountain top? That's fantastic!
IdrisThu Nov 11, 2010 4:17 am
> skidesmond wrote:Is your office an airplane? Work on a mountain top? That's fantastic!
Nope, I live in the lowly village of Les Houches, a suburb of Chamonix. I just live about 100m uphill from the main street.
skidesmondThu Nov 11, 2010 4:19 am
woo-hoo, you're extremely lucky!
IdrisFri Nov 12, 2010 1:17 am
> skidesmond wrote:woo-hoo, you're extremely lucky!
This mornings view
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skidesmondFri Nov 12, 2010 3:02 am
ok, now you're rubbing it in
It's still dark here.
AisleySat Jun 16, 2012 11:03 pm
Wow, that was surely fun. I hope my day was that great too.
