It was Deep at Kirkwood

So We headed up to Kirkwood this weekend, it was raining pretty hard the whole way up.


And then, bang it switched to Snow.



We got to kirkwood around 2PM on saturday, crossing carson pass was pretty sketch, we had to stop a few times due to white out. Limited terrain was open due to Avalanche control but it the snow was still coming down hard.



We got up early on Sunday anticipating that kirkwood would open up some more terrain, we ended up waiting at the Avy control gate before carson pass for about three hours due to an avalanche that they needed to clean up.


Caltrans was pretty cool, they ended up shuttling cars through the pass, fortunately we got there early and made the first shuttle.




The Pic above and below was taken right before the deepest turns I have ever made. We dropped in off of the Chutes from Lift 11 and traversed hard on the skiers left to the trees, we were the first ones over there. Below is a pic of Chris who I met on the lift. Thats him droping his pole straight down and hitting nothing. We then proceeded to rip through the trees while getting armpit deep the entire way down.



Heres E, Lookin all cool and stuff.....



Me Trying to look cool



Monday, they opend up the back side, and it was like Sunday all over again, but not as deep.