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Hope your day was better than mine!

Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 3:58 pm
by rockaukum
Nothing but a great day! Started out after the first "real" snow fall of the season. Turned on to the road to find about a foot and half! Decided to chance it and drive up a bit. Truck did good and dragged a bit on the underside.
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Stopped when the road turned downhill for fear of the return trip. Skinned up planning on going for the ridge but found this instead.
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As I got to the ridge the snow was wind blown. I did a mitt test and here is what I found. The bottom layer seemed fine but there were two layers on the top. Always good to check and be safe.
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It even started a very small fracture while climbing, near the ridge.
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Enough of the safety talk. Here is the first run.
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Second run.
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Lunch vista.
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Finishing up the day with these.
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All in all a great way to start the 2010 season!

Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 6:59 pm
by doughboyshredder
I wish my day had been that good.

Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 7:26 pm
by EricW
I installed surveillance cameras in a car wash.

Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 10:46 pm
by sammer
Nice!
I spent my day making shepards pies (1 for dinner and 3 for the freezer) and watching the intermittent snow fly.

Hope I can have a day like yours soon.

sam

Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 11:24 pm
by sammer
Oh, and glad to see you played it safe sticking too the low angle tree runs.
Early season avalanche is something most people don't think about.
Everybody's too excited to be out skiing in the first pow of the year!
Conditions look ripe for a nice slab! (even with the shallow snow pack)

sam

Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 6:14 pm
by skidesmond
went to work.... :? But I worked from home. Some day I'll have a day like that.

Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 1:50 am
by Idris
Computer and vehicle failures - not a good day.

But this is the view from my office window this morning ;)

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Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 3:57 am
by skidesmond
Is your office an airplane? Work on a mountain top? That's fantastic!

Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 4:17 am
by Idris
skidesmond wrote:Is your office an airplane? Work on a mountain top? That's fantastic!
Nope, I live in the lowly village of Les Houches, a suburb of Chamonix. I just live about 100m uphill from the main street.

Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 4:19 am
by skidesmond
woo-hoo, you're extremely lucky!

Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2010 1:17 am
by Idris
skidesmond wrote:woo-hoo, you're extremely lucky!
This mornings view ;)

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Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2010 3:02 am
by skidesmond
ok, now you're rubbing it in ;) It's still dark here.

Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 11:03 pm
by Aisley
Wow, that was surely fun. I hope my day was that great too.