Colorado Backcountry: BP/LP

Saturday morning Red and I met up for some shreddin up at Mary Jane. No real new snow in a while we went straight for the Timberline lift. Crowds weren't too bad until about noon, we did laps here and in the bowl all day. Down on Larkspur we found some almost fresh powder in the trees. (look here for stashes) Bored of MJ and the gapers we decided to head up to BP for some hiking and booter hittin. We made our way up the west face to this nice sized booter about midway, messed around here for a while and decided to hike the summit and drop into Current Creek. Surprised we found some nice untracked lines back down to the highway.

Sunday was the freaking bomb, I had no idea where I wanted to ride so I just basically pointed the truck towards the mountains. I ended up a the base of LP around 7:15am, only one other dude around. I got my gear set and waited for a pickup to the top. Me and homeboy got a ride up to the top together and since no else was around we decided to charge the ridge and get fresh lines down the Widowmaker face. The snow wasn't the best, way better over at BP. We were able to get some good lines in and did at least 3 laps before others showed up. At this point I just started meeting and shredding with people left and right. Showed some kids where the hut was, found 2 new smoke shacks. Around noon I found myself at the bottom of LP again, this time my new homies from d-town were over in the lot cooking some brats. I was stoked they saved me a brat cause I was having too much fun shredding. After noon I met up with these other kids that had a pickup truck and were doing shuttle runs. We burned them down and pretty much rode with them the rest of the day. It was great, for a while it was just me and this dude in the back of the truck, his girlfriend was shuttling us around from spot to spot. We rode the Arrow, The LP Basin drop, and tons of lines on the normal pass area. There are booters everywhere up on LP, I mean its a huge play ground of shit. There are tons of rails and little jibs setup near the East Portal lot.

Monday I was a little wrecked from shredding all day Saturday and Sunday so AKD and I decided to build a jump up on BP. We were hiking up the east face and noticed that the lodge had a ton of snow on it. We thought, wouldn't it be sick to build a jump to drop off the lodge? After some careful scientific calculations we concluded that it would be sick. sick as fuck. We started building the shit around 7am, done by 10am. Sessioned the lodge jump for a while, then decided to head over to Mary Jane again for some laps up on Timberline. Kick ass weekend, lots of shredding and some good snow.

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Tomorrow, I think I'm going to go check out that rail jam up in Nederland, then maybe head over to Caribou. I heard from this chick at Falafel King that they had a few rails and some jumps setup there. Caribou and Eldora are like 30 minutes from my house. LP again at least one day this weekend, maybe head up to Cameron Pass and see what is setup.