Upsidedown Snow at Solitude
When:
Sun, 01/22/2012
Where:
Solitude, Headwall Trees
State / Province:
Utah
Who:
Myself, Mike & Forrest
Temperature:
34F
Conditions:
Pow, warm pow, hot pow, cement.
*All images: Forrest Gladding
Fun day. This was my first real (kind of) pow day this season. BCC received about 8" of fresh (12" in loaded spots), heavy goodness. We schralped some upper bowls and headed to Summit Chair for greater top-to-bottom.
The three of us dropped into some tree chute; Forrest headed down to snap some pics, Mike dropped and nailed some nice turns. I followed Mike's line and it gave out on me. Forrest started yelling, "left, left!" as the slope decayed and rushed out down through the trees and over this rocky zone. It could have been a lot worse. We pealed out and rode about 500/600 feet out and snapped a picture looking upwards of the run out of the wash zone... well, at least Forrest did.
Afterwards, we did two more laps into the this fun meadow zone and ended up at Kimi's. Jesus Christ, this place is way overpriced but the food is good.
Aprés in the parking lot.
Forrest Gladding
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