Silverton Mountain

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Just finished a long day in Silverton. I am too tired to post pictures now. I don't really think I got any great shots but will sift thru the detritus tomorrow. Snow is getting deap up yonder way.

 

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ok- Met up with my ski partner Bridget from Telluride. Afetr a quick beacon check in the parking lot up we go.
The lift here is an old fixed grip from mammoth.

 

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whoops forgot- here is the view coming into Silverton on Hwy. 550-the most avalanch prone highway in the lower 48.

 

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the summit of the mountain

 

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At the bottom of "mandatory" is a section called two smokes. Yesterday I figured why it is called that. Because there is time for two smokes while whoever is skitching down the waterfall on a fixed rope piece of crap old gold line.
I got so tangled up in that cotton picking thing I lost a ski and cursed a blue streak. Someone left the rope tangled in a little sapling so I had a time.
Here is Bridget coming down.

 

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another of two smokes rappel

 

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base area

 

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Some good "espirit de corps" was had at the end of the day

 

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The day's skiing provided by guide(and part time stick picker upper at HWTS LLC) John Shocklee

 

[Roger_Barnett]

Awesome!!

I'se just gonna have ta roadtrip out there, and show ya how to air that rappel.........j/k we must make some turns, tho, that's a fact, Jack




Had one nuclear day at Crystal Jan 2.....waist deep and light.....They had 182" in 3 weeks...that's unheard of for XTAL....

now the forecast is for 10-20" of rain, as high as 7000 feet.....aarrrgghhhh

 

[Zac]

Dang dang dang...

Everything here is covered in ice.

-Bitter and snowless