Mitch and I went went back up on Red Hill Sunday....It
was still 60 degrees at the House at Midnight Sat night......Wind was Howling,
Raining like mad.......Sometime later it turned Colder
It was 40 a home and a trace of Snow at The Meadows Sunday AM.....It
was fairly late to get up a big group...
A lot of the guys had already made other plans....It was Stormy,
and Windy... The Sun came out a few times for a few seconds.... Spittin
Snow most of the time..... The Snow had Froze up again and was a bit Icy
.... Just had to watch it ..... Didnt get too many Pix....
Mitch did a little playin in Dollar Pit..... Landings were a
little harder than usual....hehe
Tho Ya could go anywhere....Just enough New Snow to get around good....
We wandered on up to the Top of Red Hill........we
were just barely under the Cloud Layer and couldnt see the Mtn at
all.... the Wind was Howling up there......
We dropped down thru the trees to the Small Meadow
and thru the Saddle and on around to the Rocky Point over looking Laurence
Lake.... Weather looked pretty good on the East Side of the Valley....
The Snow Level is movin a little higher everytime I come up
here
I hope to be at this spot on the 4th of July..........Last Yr I made
it up here on Memorial Day
We headed back across the ridge and dropped down thru an older Yarder Unit and got down on the Blue Ridge Road and followed it on around to the head of the Pinnacle Ridge Trail.....
We dropped down in the the Hole I had been in Friday....The
Light was bad back there so I didnt get much in the way of Pix in
there.....I did get this one of Mitch breakin over the top
Were making some passes on the Hill
Mitch
headed up
and I decided to see if I catch him and break over beside
him.... He had slowed down a bit to test the break......
I was full throttle..... I passed him just before we
broke over........I dont generally
try for Big Air..... There was a small lip right at the
break..... I guess I got some Good Air....
and a Good Landing......I probably topped it goin at least
50 MPH Ground Speed...Way Faster than Neccessary......... Mitch said
it looked Awsome...........He didnt even know I was there till
I Flew by I'm about 20' off to his side .........hehe..... I never
get any pix of me much ..... I'm always takin the Pix.....
The Boodockin was Awsome.......The Snow was
as deep as I'd ever seen it..... all the Small Trees are Buried
and not there to get in the way.........The Access from the Red Hill Side
is going to go away
in a couple of weeks....Our Normal way is melted out already and had
to drop down the next Unit west of it..... and Its gonna melt out
the next warm spell too......... I keep tryin to find a way off Red Hill
down a Draw to get over there in the Late Spring..... I aint
found it yet.........The only other way in there is by way of the
LoLo Pass Rd, and thats Iffy too..... Lots of Bare Spots
in the open and 4' of Snow in the Protected Areas......
Thats It for This Weekend
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