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Colorado Backcountry: Hucktoberfest - 03.03.07 & Bluebird Sun Baked Pow - 03.04.07

Shots from Saturday 03.03.2007 - aka HUCKTOBERFEST
Pictures by: JP

iskibc:

Take Off:

Whiteroom:

BlurredElevens:

25 Left:

STE:

Kya:

Viking Style:

Jon:

JP:

Shots from Saturday 03.04.2007 - Bluebird Sun Baked Pow

Trevor:

Colorado Backcountry: 7 Days of Snow + 1 Bluebird Day = Utopia - 03.03.07

Kya, BlurredElevens, Reidhresko, iskibc, jonpierre, SurfTheEarth, Vicious, EastVailHucker.
Utopia, Eagle County

Trip report and most Pictures: iskibc

Saturday
Last Saturday morning the flakes fell from the sky one by one falling every slowly before hitting the ground. As the day grew older the winds picked up and the snow came down harder. Soon enough the highways were snowpacked as the resorts closed for the day and the hordes of people rushed back down I70 to get back to the front range. By nightfall the snow intensified by the hour and sometime after midnight it was full on nuking at a good 2" per hour rate.

Sunday
Still snowing. The big winner....Steamboat and the northern Park Range. 12+" overnight, still dumping at first report.

Monday
Power-nuking! This storm isn't going anywhere anytime soon. 4" per hour rate recorded with 4% water content up high in Steamboat.

Tuesday
Still snowing, but letting up a little. In between storms.

Wednesday
Still snowing. Most everyone getting in on the goods now. Aspen zone reporting good results, CB the big winner with 12"+. Steamboat only gets 11" overnight this time.

Thursday
Still snowing. Nuking in Eagle County, Aspen zone, steamboat zone, most of the front range.

Friday
Power nuking again off and on all day long. Buffalo pass reaches 100" on the week. Vail has 3.5' since Saturday. Will it ever stop? Oh shit, I jinxed it!.....

Saturday
Total bluebird. Game on.....

Some low level clouds moving out:

Nearing the top of our first run of the day:

Some more scenics:

Wyoming Backcountry: Day 2 & 3 - Togwotee Pass - 02.23.07 - 02.25.07


Met up with the Scrubfest crew up at Togwotee Pass, Wyoming. Lots of splitboarders and backcountry riders. Logged about 20,000ft vertical this trip including a day inbounds at Jackson Hole resort. Here are the pictures.Terrain, Skinning and Scenics:

JP:

Wyoming Backcountry: Day 1 - Jackson Hole - 02.22.07

On the way to Scrubfest '07 we stopped off at Jackson Hole and rode a day at the resort. Great conditions after almost 9" new the previous day. We were happy to not be driving and in the land of mass snow.

The Grand:

Yonder:

Alex:

JP:

Tetons:

STE:

Moose, late afternoon:

The Grand:

Jackson Hole:

TGR JONG Sled Trainer:

A couple of our lines:

Scrubfest 2007:

El Cabon:

Colorado Backcountry: Cold Smoke & Bluebird - 02.17.2007

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.

Colorado Backcountry: Road Work - 02.11.2007

STE and I spent all day Sunday breaking trail, building roads, scouting hut locations and slashing recycled pow. A couple of inches fresh on a firm base and light snow throughout the day made conditions much better than expected. After the 4 hour drive we needed it! Greybird and snowing most of the day and near white out conditions above treeline we stuck to the lower terrain and trees.

SurfTheEarth breaks trail:

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