Author: Stev

Looking across Lower Blue Lake up at the backside of The Nipple: This is the lowest I have ever seen Lower Blue Lake. In a “normal” year I

A recon mission to the Northeast Chute in the sleet. Stev in the foreground with Lost Lakes in the background on the approach: and another of the approach:

Penny in a pond: Two Stevs skiing above a pond: Makisha on a mini-cornice above a pond: Looking down from the top of the right patch: Forestdale panorama:

Melting snow and marks of moles on the hike up: Penny: Penny and Makisha: Stev on the approach… Stev on his first run… …pursued by Penny and Makisha…

Mike: Stev: …further over… Mike and Stev in front of our first run of the day… …a view from another angle… I wonder if Penny notices the shape

Stev skinning up: Penny: Penny and Makisha are ready and waiting for Spence and Stev to get ready too: Stev is almost ready to go… Penny and Makisha

Another storm provided a reason to return to Carson Pass. “Threading the needle” between two small boulders on my first run: Pushing to gain speed on the not

We skied the flat and shallow on the overflow lot road above Red Lake. Thanks go out to Mike for doing a recon ski mission the previous day

I returned to the location of my September turns. While this patch had gotten smaller, it did receive a some fresh snow a week earlier. I enjoyed last season’s

Mike approaches the “Drivewayberg Patch”: This patch is usually about 3 football fields long. On this day it was about the size of a 2 and a half