Turnagain Pass Crust
Saturday, May 17th, 2008Flashback to April 20, 2008: After a great weekend of crust skiing to Grandview, Skookum, and Bear Valley, with tons of snow and plenty of sun, it appeared that our crust ski season was finally kicking into high gear. I was looking forward to a few more weekends of great crust.
Now, here we are a month later, and I haven’t been crust skiing since (other than at Glen Alps) . What happened?? Our 2008 crust season was largely swallowed up by a freak two-foot snowstorm in late April, and subsequent cloudy weather. You just never can tell what the crust gods have in store.
As early May turned into mid-May I was finally coming to terms with the fact that the crust was not coming back and it was time to move on to summer. Of course, the crust gods threw another curveball last night: a clear, cold night followed by a sunny day. So, back on the horse.
This morning, Tim, Tim, Benji and I attempted to ski a place we hadn’t been before, but were thwarted by poor snow conditions at the trailhead. To be expected in May, I guess. So instead, we hit Turnagain Pass, which was as good as I’ve ever seen it. You know the day can’t be too bad when when your backup plan looks like this…
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[Click the photo above to view this photo album. I didn’t take many photos, so I borrowed some of Tim’s. You can check out all his photos here.]
