[TR] Colonial Knob Job - THRASH RIDGE 3/23/2013

[tvashtarkatena]

Trip: Colonial Knob Job - THRASH RIDGE

 

Date: 3/23/2013

 

Trip Report:

 

“And that’s Betelgeuse, and Bellatrix next to it. Rigel is lower right, and Saiph to the lower left”

 

“How many stars do I need to know to get laid?”

 

"Nevermind."

 

When you ski with Mr. Kaplan, there are 3 things you need to know beforehand:

 

1) There will be suffering.

2) Only warm, direct sunlight brings him back from the dead.

3) There will be powder. Thousands of feet of stokaine powder.

 

The Colonial approach delivers a martyr’s worth of suffering, at and in both ends, but, as discouraged as we’d become after a wallowing defeat on day 1, our perseverance on day 2 rewarded us with a spectacular, sunny, windless camp perched directly over a gigantic basin full of 2000 vertical feet of untouched powder.

 

The gheyer the music, the greater the stoke. By the time we’ve worked through belting out the SwedishTechno and into Hall and Oates or some other 80s shit, it’s time to either drop in or rub one out.

 

Flexibility and adaptation improve one’s odds of attaining satori in Washington’s back country. Rather than crossing the sketchy traverse from Colonial Knob to the Colonial Glacier, we opted to stay put and ski the basin to the NW.

 

Sometimes, it pays to laze.

 

That, and JackingTheBox’s Supreme Croissant Sandwich is arguably the most fucking delicious post-thrash replenishment device of all time.

 

A few pics. This is really just to get JoshK to weigh in with the good stuff from that groovy new camera:

 

 

Edited March 26, 2013 by tvashtarkatena

[Tyson.g]

Nice boyz!

Was wondering how you fellas faired whilst Sir Richie and I skied the manky crust of Skyline and Yodelin....Well except for the nice pow in the trees...all five turns worth.

 

[tvashtarkatena]

In terms of both pain and pleasure, this was one for the books. The descent was...educational.