It's been rainy and warm lately in Kodiak, but yesterday it finally dawned sunny and cold. Gregg and I headed up into the mountains for a day of ptarmigan hunting and touring. All the recent wet weather hung around as a glorious ground fog that made for some good visuals. Skiing was pretty icy, but on the steep, south-facing slopes we did find some sun-warmed spring corn snow.
To finish out the day, Gregg and I thought it might be a good idea to ski out the South Bowl of Pyramid to the road. So we climbed up the North side of Pyramid. Turned out to be a nightmare climb. Too icy to skin up, and we had to kick in boot tracks in the steep sections. I was scared I'd slip and slide back all the way to the bottom of the valley. Gregg dropped his sunglasses and they did just that, and he never did find them. But in the end, the run to the road was glorious and well worth the effort. (PGS)
2 comments:
Sweet photos. Love the bottom one especially. Looks like it could have been taken in the Andes somewhere, yet it's right here on little old Kodiak. Reinforces the point that we've got a world-class destination here.
I agree. Our mountains may not be all that tall - but they do start at sea level and they are pretty rugged.
A few years back some German snowboarders visited for a photo shoot and they really liked the ocean vistas in the background. We were the featured destination in the top german snowboarder rag - and they must have truely liked Kodiak because they came back the next year too.
They thought that while our mountains are not tall; our top 2500 feet compares with the best steeps anywhere in the world.
Patrick
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