swaterfall Posted April 15, 2005 Posted April 15, 2005 Well, it's not a true photo onslaught (only 4 pics) and it's not from the Cascades (you know this b/c there is actually snow in the pics). But Kailas and I got out this morning for some quality turns on Red Mountain Pass. Here's our route up. We dropped over the top of the shoulder in the upper right of the pic. Red Mountain #3 in the background. No ones got the cajones up to ski that since the last storm. The d00d making some nice turns before we dropped into the steeps. Here's our aprroximate line down the steep section. It's a good 1400 - 1500 vert. that sits at about a 40 degree angle. Too bad about having to traverse above the rocks, although those are cliffs in the summer. Quote
Billygoat Posted April 15, 2005 Posted April 15, 2005 Sweet! Do you guys live in the ride or durango? Or some yurt outside of ridgeway... Quote
JoshK Posted April 15, 2005 Posted April 15, 2005 The cascades now have more snow than the rockies do at least around the summit county area. Quote
swaterfall Posted April 15, 2005 Author Posted April 15, 2005 BG in Ouray Josh, technically I think that Scummit County is actually part of Texas, that's why there is no snow. Quote
thelawgoddess Posted April 15, 2005 Posted April 15, 2005 summit county ... pfft. it's got nothing on the southwest corner of the state. ;-) Quote
JoshK Posted April 17, 2005 Posted April 17, 2005 Yeah, i know that. I need to get down the SW. The summit county area is pretty overrated. It just happens to be near where everybody lives. I guess the southern CO rockies have had one of the best years in quite a while. Too bad it's such a drive for me. -josh Quote
barkernews Posted April 26, 2005 Posted April 26, 2005 What's that white shit all over the mountains? Quote
JoshK Posted April 28, 2005 Posted April 28, 2005 Skykilo and I skied Quandary peak the other day in a storm. Man the wind on the ridges of the divide just totally sucks. It was a great time tho...made an easy mountain much more exciting. Quote
kailas Posted May 2, 2005 Posted May 2, 2005 Snowed down this way 7 days straight, at least up high, expected to continue this week as well. Cascades usually get more snow than CO can only dream about, thats why u have glaciers!! Quote
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