Wrapping up

Pictures from the trip

Set 1
Set 2
Set 3

I will get final numbers out this week but I owe money to a few of you.

My favorite runs in the entire region were probably

1. runs on skiiers right of elk camp, through the trees
2. the runs on skiiers left of the big burn
3. silver bell on aspen mtn.

Rather interestingly, after touching down in NYC, and at basically sea level, I hit the gym and felt pretty charged up so was able to do 45 min on the elliptical at a little higher speed than usual. Being at alitude seems to help some kinds of training.

On the down side, I have had a persistent ear ache since returning.

Ajax looked pretty darn steep once one got away from the blue rated gullies & basins.

One impressive thing about Snowmass, especially vis-a-vis Vail, is how much real vertical you can get on all the lifts. Vail has lots of lifts that give you 1000-1400 vert on each lift, but not that many that give you 2000+ Snowmass seemed to have plenty in the 1800+ zone.

Supposedly snowbasin has a 2300 vert lift.

The more you look into this, nothing quite compares to Sun Valley's Challenger and lift 5, which give more real vert per minute than anything else.