We headed to an area called Mill D which has a lot of mellower, treed terrain that is great to play in when avalanche conditions are unstable. We skinned up through beautiful Aspen trees...
...and Jeff instantly became a convert to the Dynafit clan after his first day touring on these incredibly light bindings.
Then we decided to take a quick lap once we gained a little ridge.
After a quick bite to eat we headed back up for more but this time worked our way up higher following someone's beautifully placed skin track that lead through gorgeous aspen glades...
...then on up to moderately angled alpine terrain to the summit of Peak 9269. Jeff skins the last few vertical feet to the summit.
The boys on top. It was blustery up here. The temperature was probably -10F with the wind chill. We didn't stay long.
The powder was windbuffed and some areas were crossloaded, but there wasn't enough of a pitch for anything to move. Minor cracking was observed while skiing but only on the top 1 centimeter where a slight wind crust had formed. We had great windbuffed powder turns on the descent. Here I am enjoying some of the goods on the upper portion of the peak.
And Jeff getting great early season turns lower down.
I have a couple videos from the day that I've loaded via YouTube. Hopefully everyone will like this format better as it allows you to blow up the video to full screen.
Jeff testing out how well his Dynafits handle the Pow.
And me skiing down the middle section of Peak 9269. Jeff zoomed his camera while recording so that's why it looks like the picture jumps a couple times.
Another fantastic day out in the backcountry.
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