Baldface Blog - Tuesday March 4th
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Out with the crew to shoot in the sunshine. With yesterdays new snow the reset button has finally been fully pushed. Joel and Buff are the guides for this trip and their focus has, once again, swung from finding fresh lines between the tracks to dealing with stability issues reopening terrain. I rode the morning with Buffs group, moving around the area, workig our way into then terrain. It was one of those magical mornings when it all comes together - sun and powder with cold temps to preserve the snow. As the day warmed, the clouds in the valley rose and began to hang around the ridgetops, but there were still plenty of big blue patches of mixed in. Skiing down to Triple creek a small snaggy branch reached out and tried to take out my left eye. Luckily it glanced off my sunglasses and punched me in the cheek instead, drawing blood. "It's only a fleshwound..."
I switched groups in the afternoon and eventually headed for Krustofskis. True to its name, there was a distinct crust under the new snow which had yet to break down under the new snow, which made for fast turns. I dropped in behind Joel, jetting down to set up to shoot the group which was hot on our heels. Ripping through the trees, my tails washed out on the crust exposed by Joels tracks and I found myself in a flat spin, flying backwards into a treewell. I stopped abruptly. F**K that hurt. Fingers and toes work as do my legs. Once the initial shock wore off I determined that my back was uninjured and my breathing was not impaired (ribs) either. The pain was brutal though and as I got to my feet and gathered myself up a couple of the guests stopped to see if I was OK. I told them to wait a sec while I skied down to take their pictures! Thankfully it didn't hurt to ski and I felt not too bad as long as I kept moving. I felt like I'd been tackled by a 300lb lineman of crushed into the boards by big ass winger, bent but unbroken. Bloody lucky...
I figured my day was over but, as we were not close to the Lodge, I had to stay with the group until we were. Back up Krustofskis we went and upon arrival at the top I decided, what the hell, I might as well ski. I don't get many pictures riding dow in the cat. I took it easy, got some more shots and made it back to the cat in one piece. It looks like I'll live.
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Posted by:
UnRed Dave
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Friday 07 March 09:28:38AM
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