Cleared for Takeoff

Today was another fantastic day at Snowmass. The powder was packed by the machines overnight and a bit loud (loud powder), but it made for some great downhill skiing. The moisture content was fairly low and there were almost no icy spots anywhere on the mountain all day.

After Robby and Meghan got to their lessons this morning, the adults headed out to tackle some of the more challenging terrain at Snowmass. Here we are at the top of the Big Burn lift. Later, Michael and I bumped edges half way down the Sheer Bliss lift doing about 60mph. Luckily, our speeds were closely matched and we both kept skiing. Good thing we had our helmets on nevertheless.The weather and visibility were superlative once again. The photo above was taken after landing at the top of mountain off of the new Cirque lift. The Cirque lift is powered by wind energy, and built on top of National Forest tundra.
12,510 feet above sea level. After the photo op, we tackled the double black diamond head wall runs. The gully skiing to get out of the bowl was a lot of fun, too. Tomorrow is our last day and high pressures is promising to provide similar conditions again.