Yes, by the title I mean that I skied on crust this morning. Normally, this phrase is used when there is just a skiff of snow on top of a hard crust. This also was the case, but in the title I meant to reference the former. It seemed like it had been forever since I had skied. I went out last Tuesday with Jer and we had a great day. I missed Thursday. I got a couple of resort turns in over the weekend on Friday and Saturday, but I was primarily worried about learning Bro and working on my tan. I missed Tuesday due to the lack of snow, ski partners, and personal drive. It was time I got back out on the hill.
CJ responded to the dawn patrol text message with a positive response and Sarah Jackson (award winning backcountry skier) also joined us. We were really hoping for new snow this morning. It turned out we were just too early. We skinned around red pine, but by the time we needed to get back to the car, there was maybe an inch in the deep spots on top of a bombproof crust. For those of you unclear on where this lies on the crust scale, let me elaborate: breakable - bad, can throw you out of every turn you try to make; supportable - you can find yourself breaking through at times, but you mostly stay on top; bulletproof - difficult to break through, but you can get your pole in a tight spot; bombproof - you can't penetrate this stuff no matter how hard you try. Yes, the crust this morning was bombproof. This is not a terrible thing as long as you know what you are getting into. You just end up sliding around like you would on a cold groomer in a resort. We skied back down and got to the car around 8:30am. On ski.
Yes, by the title I mean that I skied on crust this morning. Normally, this phrase is used when there is just a skiff of snow on top of a hard crust. This also was the case, but in the title I meant to reference the former. It seemed like it had been forever since I had skied. I went out last Tuesday with Jer and we had a great day. I missed Thursday. I got a couple of resort turns in over the weekend on Friday and Saturday, but I was primarily worried about learning Bro and working on my tan. I missed Tuesday due to the lack of snow, ski partners, and personal drive. It was time I got back out on the hill. 
CJ responded to the dawn patrol text message with a positive response and Sarah Jackson (award winning backcountry skier) also joined us. We were really hoping for new snow this morning. It turned out we were just too early. We skinned around red pine, but by the time we needed to get back to the car, there was maybe an inch in the deep spots on top of a bombproof crust. For those of you unclear on where this lies on the crust scale, let me elaborate: breakable - bad, can throw you out of every turn you try to make; supportable - you can find yourself breaking through at times, but you mostly stay on top; bulletproof - difficult to break through, but you can get your pole in a tight spot; bombproof - you can't penetrate this stuff no matter how hard you try. Yes, the crust this morning was bombproof. This is not a terrible thing as long as you know what you are getting into. You just end up sliding around like you would on a cold groomer in a resort. We skied back down and got to the car around 8:30am. On ski.
Hey, in climbing "bombproof" is a good thing.
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"That snow was BOMBER dude!"
Then everyone within earshot says "Ya man, send it bra."
then they depart with:
"Cheers!"
-cj
Wha? What's this "blog owner approval" crap. Freakin' Life is Short...Drink Whole Milk book burning censors! 'Cmon!
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First, in response to the bombproof comment: bomber is good. Bomber snow is great snow that is unlikely to slide. Bomber just means solid and sweet. Bombproof is less than desirable when you are dealing with snow. Second, let me just say that somehow my blog has been picked up by the spamming community and I have to delete comments daily that are links to fake adware crap. I have chosen to not subject my loyal readers to this by monitoring the comments before they are published. Thank you for caring.
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