After a splendid day skiing lifts with Mary yesterday I had a real hankering for some good powder skiing. I went up to the Mammoth Lakes Basin to Lake Mary Ridge looking for well protected, north facing runs.
The early morning ski over Lake Mary was sublime.
I was pretty impressed (depressed?) with the number of tracks at Lake Mary Ridge. Shouldn't have been surprised. It's low hanging fruit for sure. I was also a bit shocked noticing that the majority of the turns were made during the last warm spell with entire slopes covered with tracks and rollerballs. Ugh!
I followed an old skin track to the ridge and headed deeper into the woods quickly finding a nice knob with good looking snow and fun terrain. No tracks. Nobody around.
The skiing proved to be terrific. Short laps of 300' to 400'. Took five.
Best day in a while. Felt like winter too with cold temps and some north wind.
1 comment:
another lovely one . . .
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