(shot from end of day with Lake Tahoe in background)
As we've been reading the snow reports for Squaw Valley the last week or so it was not much to look forward to especially considering it got real warm last week which translates to icy conditions on the slopes. However this morning when we woke up for our first day of skiing, we were ecstatic to find 18 inches of fresh powder on the ground with a few more inches that accumulated throughout the morning. It made for an awesome day of steep and deep skiing with an abundance of face shots. It was heaven for us ski junkies! My resolve to take it easy and stay on the blue groomers quickly went out the window (though there weren't many groomers with all the new snow and then they are more dangerous as that's where all the beginners are congregated). On one of our lift rides the chair stopped for a minute and right at that time we watched this guy do a back flip off the 50 foot cliff that was directly in front of us. It was quite amazing to witness, better than many of the tricks you see on the Warren Miller films. My quads are dead from skiing through the knee to thigh deep powder all day. Good thing we have some other obligations tomorrow so we can take a day to rest!
2 comments:
Sounds awesome. I miss skiing!
If you had just sat in a lodge to watch the skiiers and drink hot cocoa I would've thought something was wrong with you. You look like you're in your element. I've been to that area, and it is pretty awesome.
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