Colorado Backcountry: Cold Smoke & Bluebird - 02.17.2007

Submitted by jp on Sun, 02/18/2007 - 09:34

I think I took a total of 15 pictures this whole trip, normally I average around 200 per outing.. it was that good yesterday. Logged 10,000 vertical feet of completely untracked fresh powder. STE, Kya, Trevor, Rob, Andrew and myself took the widetrack, the mtn lite and the skidoo 1000 up for some hard work breaking trail and sick powder riding. Took 5 hours to build the road in the morning! It was worth it.

Trevor:

Crew ready to drop:

Slide kicked off by pow4brains and Kya:

Conditions in the trees were pretty stable, lots of windloading above and near tree line. We saw a few natural release slides and a couple of snowmobiler triggered runs as well. Be safe out in the backcountry. run beacon drills, check conditions, dig pits and watch out for the white death. N-NE facing, +30 degrees, below treeline.


A video that has some useful information on snowpit analysis. From Utah, Brighton backcountry.