Day 6 - Friday Dec 7 - Negativity is For the Birds

I must apologize now for the lack of photos in this post. I was just too far from home this morning when I realized I had forgotten my camera. I understand what a disappointment this may be for some of you, and I sincerely apologize. I will do my best to have extra cool photos from tomorrow's tour.
Anyway, I had difficulty getting partners for this morning's tour. Has responded immediatley that he was in, but CJ, Luke, and Jer were all slugish and eventually said no. They were all negative about the conditions and they are total suckers for it. I met Has at the canyon at 5:15am. I was surprised to see two other groups of dudes arrive at the same time once we arrived at the Grizzly Gulch parking lot, but we did end up going to different places so it didn't matter. We made our way up through the cabins and onto the Patsy Marley ridge. It wasn't until we were finally reaching our destination that we began to see enough light to be able to ski. The first run down was a good one for me. Some snow was moving, but nothing major. It was just the new snow that was moving and it was going so slow it was unlikely even to mess up my sweet turns. The snow was surprisingly deep. Has followed and we made our way back to where you either head back up the ridge or back down to the car. We looked at the time and at the snow and made an executive decision to put our skins back on and get another run in. This one was even better. It was really good out there today! We were very close to heading up for one more run, but Has had to be to work by 9. Instead, we just skied out and back to the car. This morning was good enough to convince me that doing a dawn patrol before I had to be anywhere tomorrow was totally worth it. I will see you then.