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The cold world of skimo & alpine climbing

The cold world of skimo & alpine climbing

Monday, November 7, 2011

Burning Turns!

My buddy Kevin sent me this one today after I begged him for the pictures and called him nasty names for getting in some awesome turns without me.

This may be worse than missing a good day on the ice.

 "Woke up at 3 am Friday morning to get up to heliotrope ridge trail head. We were the second car at the TH and followed a set of skin tracks up the mountain. Our original intention was to climb and ski the Coleman-Deming route on Baker. However upon reaching an area just before Colfax we
realized that our group progress was too slow - especially with breaking trail in all the new snow. Instead we ripped skins and enjoyed great turns down. We picked a point to drop off our glacier gear and ended up doing several laps on the face. Around 3pm we called it a day since one member of our group had to be back in Issaquah for work that night!"

Jealous?  Ya, damn right I am jealous!   But some nice turns in those TLTs Kevin :)  Be sure to dbl click every photo for full effect.


Photos and trip report courtesy of Kevin Oberholser

Jealousy?...all mine!

They even had someone setting track for them.  It is killing me!!

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