Weez and I are leaving this afternoon for Colorado. Taking the sleds and snowboards to ride up Buffalo Pass and check it out. Then we will meet a couple friends on Wednesday evening to do some backcountry hiking and boarding near Copper Mountain area. It looks like it is a pretty good storm system has moved into the northern Colorado area
( check out the link to "National Weather Map" ). We are driving 1000 miles tonight so I slept in till 1:00 PM today. We will be driving into the storm so if we have to stop and sleep in the truck we will. We'll have the sleeping bags up front with us.
Larry and I slept in the truck the first morning last week because we arrived in Centennial, Wyoming at 3:00AM, on these trips you just do what you have to do. No reservations, get a place wherever we end up. Depends on the weather, we want snow, so just lock the truck into 4-wheel drive and keep moving. The great thing about the trailer,
"Floe 14 ft. Double Axle Enclosed Trailer" is that the sleds and our gear is protected from the elements and the trailer tracks very good on snowy roads and when we arrive I can get dressed in it, yeah.
Have a good week, let it snow, GOOD TIMES!!
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Digging an avalanche pit.
Isolate a block.
The new top layer of the past week-end snow is on top and is easily sluffed off.
A pull on the block and it easily breaks off at the fauceted snow near the ground.
All packed up and ready to head off the mountain. Rode some great powder on the top of Buff Pass with the sleds, stayed safe and learned more about the snowpack. GOOD TIMES on the mountain today.
