Since I've known Brad he has tried to explain to me the incredible feeling of skiing fresh powder. He loves this so much he is crazy enough to go backcountry hike or what we refer to as skinning up the mountain and ski down in places where no tracks have yet been laid. Brad has been collecting gear for me over the last two years; however, living in Iowa made it difficult for us to get a lot of skiing in and every time we made it back to Cache Valley the Avalanche danger was extremely high with horrible snow conditions. So needless to say my backcountry skiing experience has been in not the best of powder.
But on Christmas Eve I finally got my perfect bluebird ski day.
You always think you are going to die on the first trip up. It's by far the worst but once you are up and can see the beautiful view you forget how awful the hike was and get excited for the trip down.
This is Eric one of Brad's ski buddies. Notice the peak behind him. After we skied down from where he is standing we decided to take advantage of the perfect conditions and hike that peak known as Magog. I'll be honest I didn't think I'd make it all the way up there but once we got going I couldn't stop and decided I didn't care how steep the top was I was going to ski MAGOG!!!
I made it to the top and it was totally worth it. These two pictures are taken from the same rock. Brad and I hiked Magog on the 4th of July 2008.
This was the first picture we ever took together.
Can you tell which tracks are mine and which ones are Brad's?
It was an incredible day of skiing and I can now officially say I am ADDICTED to POWDER. The harder the hike the better the skiing.
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