Another phenomenal day of skiing in the upper Buskin Valley. Today it was me, John Mahoney, Lisa, Gregg, and Mike Sirofchuck. We got an early start that due to the change over to daylight savings time seemed like the crack of dawn. Hills lit up with pink and the sun just barely over the horizon.
Once across the lake and into the trees we found that it had snowed another inch or so over our tracks from yesterday. Gregg and I were both wondering if the skiing up high is also good, and if, perhaps, we needed to double dip and go downhill skiing in the afternoon. We decided that nothing could beat the skiing we had in the trees!
In the top photo we are heading home around the far side of the lake near the Golf course. Earlier in the day we started out on the other side of the lake from the outlet. In the bottom photo we are climbing up the side of the valley to catch some powder tele turns on our classic gear (if you look closely at the bottom of the picture you'll see Lisa and John watching to see if someone will have a really good wipeout). Turns out it is really hard to turn skiis not built for tele turns - even in perfect powder. I went straight through a few alder thickets on the way down - this seemed to please John and Lisa. Patrick
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