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| Sunrise on the mountain |
I've been climbing up Pyramid to go skiing a lot lately. There is no snow below 900 feet so if I want to ski why then I have to climb a mountain! Some days it has been beautiful while on others miserable. But always worth the climb. Always different.
The last few days there was an epic snowstorm above 1000 feet. Each day the doggies and I would climb as high as we could stand the blowing snow in the eyes. At 1800 feet there is a plateau where the wind increases dramatically. For the last few days that place has been a nuclear wasteland. Like really SCREAMING wind and BLOWING snow. It was 40 mph sustained at the airport so who knows what the doggies and I were experiencing.
And then today it cleared off overnight and at dawn I climbed up to view the sunrise. No wasteland today - just a dramatic wind sculpted landscape. The theme of the morning was pink sky and shades of grey. I did not take the doggies because I was worried about breakable crust - they hate breakable crust because it cuts their paws.
When I got home I took the doggies on a hike to Abercrombie. No blowing snow, but lots of other doggies to meet and socialize. Patrick
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| Getting close to the nuclear wasteland - time to turn around |
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| Doggies waiting for 'go time' when they get to chase me down the mountain |
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| Pink sky above - clouds catching the dawn alpine glow |
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| Look closely and you can see my ski tracks into the north bowl |
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