Monday, February 7, 2011

Deep Patrol

Headed out Sunday with the usual suspects and up to Woodlay, for the third Sunday in a row. This place is my new favorite place, except for the fact that it's uphill both ways.

1 mile in, 4 to go. The dark spot in the left lower of the picture is sadly a scratch in my lens.  It's been dropped in the snow and on the ground by mistake too, but not sure when that scratch occurred.  It's been a great camera, the lens is amazing and the zoom huge! But this scratch bums me out! (It's a Panasonic Lumix 14 megapixel, 8x zoom.)
It's snowed a lot for these parts in the last week.  Overnight, since last night's dark patrol, we got another 4-5" bringing snow totals up to somewhere around 15". 

 Breaking trail a bunch today. Nobody had been up to Woodlay Lake today, and any tracks from yesterday were 5" under the new snow.  We were all pretty worked from the travel except for perhaps Powers, who is not only fitter than Hayride and myself, but didn't have to break as much trail since she would've gotten us lost if she had (she'd never been up here before)!

Hayride in the fluff...knee deep, hip deep in places!
Powers follows down the first run.
The second run's turns
The valley before the up. It's all flat for the most part, before this view.  The glades we skied are on the left side of the valley.

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