EPiC

We decided to change the name, but went to the same place today. More creeks, glades, and chutes on this shady hillside than you can do in a day. Challenging skinning and navigation around scree, but man...is it worth it! (...yes)

The area's now officially EPiC. No, that's not the overused term but a code of sorts that fits this area well.  Longest runs we've found by far (for here that is...1200 vert).  More lichen and moss on these trees than anywhere I've seen in this area.  Each 'run' or chute we'll name by their number, left to right, 'merican style. We skied ep7c yesterday, and ep3c today (i think, still haven't named all the runs).

Saw a snowshoe hare bound across the snow 20 feet in front of me, saw the tracks left by a hucking squirrel (the picture didn't do it justice, but this dude did a sweet 'bridge' ride on a skinny down snag and hucked several feet off the end to cross the creek),  saw nobody but us Pilots skiing some cold snow in these thar hills a half hour from our houses.  YWLH!

Thankfully Hayride broke trail all day today even after having a full Abyss by himself last night...!  Nice work.

Looking west towards 007 peak (photos of me are by Hayride. Yes, I also now have a red puff jacket to better spot me).

Nice turn, the speck up there is me.

"SS" is for singlespeed!

This is a cool shot, and it looks like a huge steep hill, but it's really pretty small and mellow, but we've been looking at this thing from the parking area for years and finally did it today! 

Skywalker in the far distance...

me, grasping for air...

Me heading down the "powerline"