Skiing in June

 

It is now June, but the hills are still mostly brown and the skiing is still better than it was back in December and even January.  Actually might even be better than it was in February!  I love summer skiing.  The corn snow is always fast and consistent, there is no ice, and rocks are easy to avoid.  It is also generally T-shirt weather with plenty of sunlight.

The downside is that you have to hike up from the road to get to the good skiing.  And this hike is getting longer, and longer, and longer as the snow melts.  Yesterday with Stuey we still managed to ski to the copse of trees in the jibber bowl at about 1200 feet elevation.  But pretty soon the snow line will be at 1500 feet.

Anyway, yesterday Stuey decided he wanted to join me and the dogs for the daily ski.  So rather than the usual up and down - we did a run down into the North Bowl.  We went way down there and into the big ravine that we call the 'half pipe'.  Then we skinned back up and skied back down to the car.  

There is still plenty of snow - we'll be skiing for a few more weeks!

Patrick