Beartrap Fork Powder Day

Andrea enjoying some powder turns in Beartrap Fork

After yesterday's 15K race (where Andrea took home $100 for another first-place finish and we both ran PRs), today was all about skiing! Between Thursday and Saturday we got another 3 feet of snow, so ski conditions were outstanding, and to make things even better, the skies cleared and we had a perfect blue sky day.

We spent the day skiing in Beartrap Fork... our first time exploring this area. Lots of great safer terrain for skiing when the avalanche danger is somewhat elevated. I'm just going to let the photos do the talking... its obvious that we had a really, really awesome day!


Skintrack stoke


A little scramble up to the first highpoint of the day


Mt Raymond (left) and Gobbler's Knob (right) looking nice


Big Cottonwood Canyon


Pro photo-man Alecs Barton took this shot of me skiing above the clouds on our first run


And here we go... Andrea ripping it...


...skiing under a very bright sun


Farming some turns


I like it when the snow is nice and light

Honeycomb Canyon backdrop

Andrea skinning up for another lap

I'm following behind


Andrea leaving a trail of cold smoke


My turn


Another scenic


Andrea and I before our last lap


And she brings it home against a picture-perfect blue sky...

...One more for the road... doesn't get much better than this!

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GPS track - 5 laps, 5560 feet climbed