Sunrise

From the deck. 4/11/2009

The Morning

Sunrise. 11/26/2008


Big Creek and Laketown


Big Creek


Morning at the 3J Ranch.

Summer Skies

In the morning.....



and in the evening.....

New (Old) Surroundings

It's been a wet and brisk spring at Bear Lake.
Sunrise at the Lazy D Marina

Wellsville Mountain Wilderness

Skied some powder in a new (to me) area in the Wellsvilles on 4/25. Good turns up high, a little damp down lower. Some new snow sluffs would run far on sheltered aspects.

Sun rises over The Folly

open slopes near the Wellsville Cone

Looking down to Maple Rise and the Cache Valley

Alta the Dog heads up a sub ridge

looks fun

booted up a ridge

Down lower, in the gully

A bit of a bush whack.

Beirdneau Peak

Skied the SE chute/gully of Beirdneau Peak on 4/12. Got an early start, and was able to get about 2,500 vertical feet of good corn snow.

Sunrise.

Click photo to see line skied.

Looking up from lower in the gully.

First light hits Beirdneau.

Views ^ v

A good portion of the upper bowl had avalanched, coming off the rock outcroppings. Still smooth snow to skier's left.

Obligatory Alta the Dog photos:
Under a cornice,

in the upper bowl,

Looking over towards Spring Hollow.

Toward Logan Peak, above Logan Canyon.

Wellsvilles in distance.

Cornices.

Summit ridge.

Zoomed, from the road.

Mitton Peak

Skied the east dog-leg chute of Mitton Peak this morning. Shouldn't have. Snow quality was poor. Shifting winds pretty much blew away any new snow that may have been there.

another sunrise, another moon.

Mitton

morning in the Wellsvilles

sun-up

Wellsville Divide

Bierdeneau & Bear Rivers behind wind-buff

more Wellsvilles

from the top

from the bottom.
Character building turns.

Better Than Expected

Got up into the mountains early this morning. Took the S.A.V. and was able to access some upper elevation terrain. This allowed for some drier than anticipated snow. Skied a S/SW aspect that was a little wind buffed, but they were fun/fast/smoove turns. About a foot of new on a frozen crust, but only felt the bottom a couple times. Felt much deeper in sheltered areas.

moon at sunrise.

first light.

Parked here.

sunrise.

Upper G.C. Canyon

illuminated aspens.

Looking over towards the Gut.

red crags.

turns at the bottom.

skintrack and my shadow.

valley fog.

glad to have the Trabs back. Nice and light, yet they ski so well. Thanks to Mark at Wasatch Ski Distribution as well as randogear
for getting me back on another pair of Freerandos. They are bomber.

cool view/angle of a skin track.

a fun morning.

It was fun to go back to the area where I started earning legit turns. For some reason it had been a while.