Day 7 - Saturday Dec 8 - Too Deep?

After yesterday's excellent skiing, there was not much that was going to keep me out of the hills today. I had a super busy Saturday ahead of me with the ward party and everything so I had to find someone to dawn patrol with me. Lucky for me, Jer is also a sucker who has to do a bunch of stuff on Saturdays. We met at my house at 5:30 and then made our way to the canyon. Before arriving we decided we were likely not going to have much luck getting up the canyon with all this snow. So we stopped at 7-11 where we picked up some chains. I have to say that I was rather surprised with the added traction these gave. I am stoked I have them now. We got up to the hill around the same time as a couple other groups, but I imagine they were headed out for longer than we. We went up into Grizzly to pretty much ski the same stuff I skied yesterday. It turns out that today wasn't as easy as yesterday. The snow was too deep for this line and all we ended up doing was swimming down the mountain in snow up to our chest. We felt as though we could find a line that would better suit our needs and we skinned back up to a steeper section. This was tricky because we had to find something that wasn't going to slide, but was still steep enough to actually turn on. We found it. Our second line was fantastic. We had good momentum and big pillows of snow just bounding over our head every turn. My goggles were all fogged up by this time so it was difficult to see, but I just went Karate kid style (although just with my eyes closed - I wasn't quite blindfolded) and still got some sweet turns. It was saddening to discover that the time had come for us to be on our way. We are suckers for having to leave this for ward parties. Oh, well. On our way down we ran into the PowderWhores on their way up. I spoke to one of them for a minute and then we made the rest of our way down to the car. Really it was a sweet day. I have to apologize once again for the lack of photos. I know I promised photos on this one. The batteries were dead when I first pulled it out to use it out there. I did take a couple with my camera phone so if any of you are dying to see photos from this day you can send me a text message to which I will reply with a photo or two. Peace!