The new Kensho chair dropped me at 12.3K ft elevation on Peak 6 @ Breck. My new Liberties led the way. I took the ridge-line to and though the trees early since #6 wasn't open yesterday and the snow was fresh... then I had designs on steeper tera. I dropped lonely into Wonderland, dodging some wind-swept mank and rock outcroppings but caught piles of spindrift on the leeward sides and slid smiling through the trees. I looped that gnar all day with "my" lines being "the" lines, all 15K, nobody in Wonderland. I lost my glove to the wind on the selfie and had to ski an "inappropriate" line to retrieve it and I did once lose a ski on a hard stomp on hard stuff and cascaded down 100 yards... fortunately the loose ski mostly followed. Wind was up but it and the traverses were worth it. Colorado is so cool.
22Feb14 & 23Feb14...Follow up to looping gnar at Breck's #6 on Fri was two days at Keystone. Saturday was awful... I got there late on a cloudy, cold and windy weekend day and had to take the shuttle from north lot... wasted time in the bus and on the mtn as the new snow was nil, the weather was crap and the base was crusty. I took 3 runs and went home. Sunday was sublime however with Keystone being the weekend snow winner at a reported 6 inches overnight and sun shining and 24 degrees on my back. I went early to get a real River Run parking spot then looped Outback hiking to North Bowl for multiple runs in 6-10" of fresh off a nice steep cornice. Caught some stuff on Dercum like Cat Dancer too. Colorado is so cool.
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