February 4 and 5, 2012: Last year, the snow was too good for stupid touring, and much of this year the snow has been too rare for any kind of ski-touring, so we thought we should double up this weekend.
On Saturday, our stratagem was to finally complete the Mt. Rose to Glenshire traverse of mystery and legend. Unfortunately, Rob picked up a savage bug from the little crumb-cruncher that put him out at the last minute.
Since he is the only one of the crew from Glenshire with a big enough shuttle vehicle for all 10 of us, as well as beta on the Rifle Canyon terrain, long trek out the road and locked gate, we thought better of going without him and chose to repeat the Mt. Rose to King's Beach tour.
This time though, we dropped a lap into Rifle Canyon and found breakable, but not brutal crust and much more extensive and entertaining terrain than we expected from peering down from the ridge. We also located another legend: the cabin that Glen Poulsen's dad built that everyone seemed to have heard of, but had never seen.
Participants: Jeff, FF, Sue, Susie, Shaggy, Kim; Beth and Starker; Ken and his peculiar-looking dog, Skeena; Dave and his zinc-oxide and fabulous sunglasses.
Beth's gear recommendation: colorful sunglasses!
The next day, Beth, Kim, Jeff and FF skied from Alpine to Homewood in a blasting, freezing, stupid, ridgetop wind.
Thank the gods that there were french fries at the end.
Beth's gear recommendation: anchor to prevent accidental ridge departure...
On Saturday, our stratagem was to finally complete the Mt. Rose to Glenshire traverse of mystery and legend. Unfortunately, Rob picked up a savage bug from the little crumb-cruncher that put him out at the last minute.
Since he is the only one of the crew from Glenshire with a big enough shuttle vehicle for all 10 of us, as well as beta on the Rifle Canyon terrain, long trek out the road and locked gate, we thought better of going without him and chose to repeat the Mt. Rose to King's Beach tour.
This time though, we dropped a lap into Rifle Canyon and found breakable, but not brutal crust and much more extensive and entertaining terrain than we expected from peering down from the ridge. We also located another legend: the cabin that Glen Poulsen's dad built that everyone seemed to have heard of, but had never seen.
Participants: Jeff, FF, Sue, Susie, Shaggy, Kim; Beth and Starker; Ken and his peculiar-looking dog, Skeena; Dave and his zinc-oxide and fabulous sunglasses.
Beth's gear recommendation: colorful sunglasses!
The next day, Beth, Kim, Jeff and FF skied from Alpine to Homewood in a blasting, freezing, stupid, ridgetop wind.
Thank the gods that there were french fries at the end.
Beth's gear recommendation: anchor to prevent accidental ridge departure...
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