Against our better judgement, Jer and I did a dawn patrol this morning. When I awoke at 4:15 and as we arrived at the Grizzly Gulch parking lot around 5:30 I wondered what I was doing awake and why I was not at home in my warm bed with my beautiful wife. The snow has not been falling consistently for the past little while, so we knew we had to hit some tree protected north facing slopes in order to ski the goods. We decided upon the Pats
y Marley ridge. By the time we reached the summit for the first lap it was still rather dark outside. Light was just beginning to peer out from behind the hills and it was beautiful. Our first lap was rather dark, but we have skied this line so many times in the past that we knew where we were going. I wanted to hurry up for the second lap because the sky was beginning to really get pink and I thought I may be able to get a few coo
l photos. I wasn't looking for ski photos today because there are tracks everywhere you look back there right now. No, I wanted some stand around photos with cool light and perhaps some shots of Superior at dawn. The bu
mmer about the Superior photos was that I shot too much sky and not enough mountain. I do think the other photos turned out cool, though. What do you think? The skiing was actually pretty good. The snow was nice and soft. It wasn't untracked utopia, but it was good nonetheless. After all was said and done, I really am glad we got out today. I got some exercise, we had some great views, and even got a little bit of skiing in.
Against our better judgement, Jer and I did a dawn patrol this morning. When I awoke at 4:15 and as we arrived at the Grizzly Gulch parking lot around 5:30 I wondered what I was doing awake and why I was not at home in my warm bed with my beautiful wife. The snow has not been falling consistently for the past little while, so we knew we had to hit some tree protected north facing slopes in order to ski the goods. We decided upon the Pats
y Marley ridge. By the time we reached the summit for the first lap it was still rather dark outside. Light was just beginning to peer out from behind the hills and it was beautiful. Our first lap was rather dark, but we have skied this line so many times in the past that we knew where we were going. I wanted to hurry up for the second lap because the sky was beginning to really get pink and I thought I may be able to get a few coo
l photos. I wasn't looking for ski photos today because there are tracks everywhere you look back there right now. No, I wanted some stand around photos with cool light and perhaps some shots of Superior at dawn. The bu
mmer about the Superior photos was that I shot too much sky and not enough mountain. I do think the other photos turned out cool, though. What do you think? The skiing was actually pretty good. The snow was nice and soft. It wasn't untracked utopia, but it was good nonetheless. After all was said and done, I really am glad we got out today. I got some exercise, we had some great views, and even got a little bit of skiing in.
Against my better judgement I read your blog today. I should have stayed in bed (where the pictures are always good, oh yeah!).
ReplyDelete