Day 8 - Friday Dec. 8 - Pink Pine Adventures

Jer drove from the mouth of Little this morning as CJ and I were able to sit back and enjoy the sounds of the Two Gallants - The Throes. We met a little later (6:30) and took things a little slower today seeing that we didn't have class. This turned out to not have been the best of decisions because of all the situations we found ourselves in later that slowed us down quite a bit. We thought we would go up Pink Pine because fewer people would have gone up there at this point and it stays well in the shade (a necessity due to the lack of snow fall lately). The skin up was not bad. Like I said, we took it easy. We did reach a point where CJ informed us normally you can skin up, but today we had to boot it. We got to the top of that and put our skis back on only to find out that on one of my bindings the screws had come loose (I was lucky I did not lose them). We got back going and reached the end of our ascent. After a quick compression test we began to ski down, but we soon found out that there wasn't that much snow. In fact, there was very little coverage at all. We scooted down until a time when we had to completely remove our skis again to get past a few rock bands (I thought the downhill was the fun part). We did finally catch a few nice turns in a little meadow, but by the time we had made it down once we needed to get going. We continued on the way out and headed down. So maybe it wasn't the best day for skiing, but the weather was beautiful, the hike was enjoyable, and the company was all a guy could ask for.