Trash Chutes + Goat Slide + Acidopolis

The sun rose this morning over clear skies, providing endless views for Steve and I as we headed out for a tour. We weren't exactly sure what we'd end up skiing, but we thought that we'd take a walk out by Trash Chutes to scope out some of the lines. A nice ridge walk with outstanding views led us to a fun, steep pillow line with good powder. Here's Steve enjoying the pitch.



Trees and glades led us out to the Whitewater access road for a 2200 foot run. The snow on the second half of our first run was marginal at best so we decided to look elsewhere for more turns. Things were also beginning to warm up substantially, so we thought that if we wanted to ski anything south facing that we best get on it. We took a quick lap down the upper part of Goat Trees connecting into Goat Slide in the middle of the bowl. Creamy powder turns led us down the wide open bowl. After that we took a lap down Acidopolis where we hoped to find lighter snow in spite of the rapid warming. The warming had caused the snow to get a bit heavy, but we still found knee deep powder in many spots. Here's me enjoying some of that deeper snow.



Steve in good style.



Practicing one of my poses so I can get into the REI catalogue next year.