Another day of work in the backcountry, one of our local stashes finally pays out. Pow4Brains, SurfTheEarth and I took the sleds out for some personal chairlift action and found great snow on north facing aspects below treeline. We weren’t expecting much but very happy when we took lap after lap of fresh hero powder through the trees. After we had 8 or so laps each we got tired of crossing our own tracks and decided to move on… good thing we did.

Spent the rest of the afternoon riding around on the sleds, scouting a few waypoints in real life and riding even more fresh snow on some lower altitude north facing steeps. Located a great spot to setup the Kifaru for a weekend.

New Project:

13k:

Pow4Brains:

SurfTheEarth:

JP:

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iskibc, Kya, SurfTheEarth and I spent Saturday putting in some work at a new find in the Rabbit Ears pass zone. With the lack of fresh snow, we were all set on spending the day doing recon, mapping and scouting. We were surprised to find really good snow and lots of it. Seems like the wind hasn’t been as bad up in this zone and the snow was some of the deepest I’ve seen lately with the lack of any new major snowfall. A couple of hours mapping roads, and breaking trail we started a skin track up one of the ridges and we found some nice 1200ft powder runs through trees and old avalanche path gullies. It’s clear this newest spot has great potential, it just takes time to develop and learn all you can about a new area.

New Terrain - Avy Path 1:

New Terrain - North Face Trees:

Views:

Find iskibc:

SurfTheEarth - Avy Path 2:

Alex and I spent a day riding inbounds and hut hunting at Winter Park. A trace of new snow on crust we had to duck a few ropes and find the goods. Photos by: Alex

Ridin’ dirty:

We got bored and started to jump ropes, creeks and huck front side spinnys off rocks onto cat tracks. It was a nice change from the deepness of the backcountry. Ya right.

Creek rope gap:

Then off to hang out at the Mesa Verde hut, built high into the cliffs.

Work:

SurfTheEarth and I spent all day Saturday doing recon work and building roads at one of our new finds. Majority of the day was spent making roads, checking out different drainages, and breaking trail in the backcountry with the widetrack. Got some good GPS data and waypoints we can later use inside Google Earth.

New Terrain: