Monday, December 6, 2010

Eldo Traverse

First tour on the Holmnekollens with Heyride this year to break in the body for the Grand Traverse.  Felt good to warm up on an 12 mile traverse from the tunnel to Rock! No navigation issues, left at a leisurely 11:30am, got back before dark, pretty sweet route, and only saw 2 people in the 4 hour tour! Arrived at the Rock with a shot of 12yr old whiskey and thank you AP for picking us up with a 4pack of TenFidy! Great recovery food. Really looking forward to more traverses this winter.
Snow on the divide, and not bleeding east at all
Heyride pointing to where we want to come back in springtime to ski. Sweet terrain up here.

Pointing to where we have to go...down to that road cut. It's fun, and scary, trying to get the Asnes Holmenkollen's to turn...on this type of snowpack.

Heyride making it look easy...

Splitrock. This rock was so awesome. Looked like it fell from the sky and split into three. The tree hides the center 'aisle'.

Compacted coyote track with the soft snow blown away from it's perimeter.  Photoshopped to make stand out a bit more...

This was pretty cool. A small spruce cone suspended by a frozen pillar of ice and snow.  Yeah, there's no wind here...

1 comment:

jharrod said...

i need a laser pointer...