Massive apologies for letting the blog languish! I'll do better. I hope.
Mid April I took another trip to the Eastern Sierra. It's such a good time to visit with good skiing in the mountains, riding at lower elevations, no crowds, and pleasant temps
I was fortunate to arrive post storm, so skiing was up first. Access at this time was a little bit tough since the normal winter trailheads were too low and a long way from the better skiing while the county road crews had not yet started clearing snow to the higher spring trailheads. Long approaches!
I elected to ski Bishop Bowl despite the 1000' hike up the snowless moraine. It payed off!
This was my view from the top of the moraine with the storm winding down.
The view across the Bishop Creek Canyon to Table Mountain and Jawbone Canyon.
Skinning wasn't much of a chore especially on slightly solar aspects where a supportable, but not slippery crust helped. View from the top. So stoked!
I very much enjoyed great skiing down the main run and quite good skiing all the way to the edge of the moraine.
The next ski outing was more of a novelty ski. A fantastic novelty ski! The stark Mono Craters under a beautiful sky.
Short but sweet runs on good corn snow.
Glad to get out for some touring while out on the Eastside.
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