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2.13.08
A few weeks late, but here's the story on Crested Butte.
Snow.
As is in more snow that I knew what to do with. Well, I knew to ski, but what I did could hardly be considered skiing. They've just been getting pummeled all season. Twelve inch, Fifteen inch, Eighteen inch dumps all the time. And that much three days in a row. All the time. So much snow that Good Morning America or some other lame east coast news show came out to do a feature on the town, and the town decided not to remove any snow from the streets to better show off their bounty. So this shot was actually taken from the sidewalk, over a drift, towards a Main St. business. The sidewalks had ten foot mounds on either side with small cut outs every fifteen feet or so to escape to the street. I actually had to escape through one of them the next morning when a monstrous snow blower with it's mashing teeth chased me out of the snow corridor.
So I tried to ski Mt. Crested Butte, but I got my ass whooped. Ten to fifteen foot cliffs were the norm, with plenty bigger if you wanted. My last run of the last day I found myself in a chute that simply cliffed out at the end - mandatory air. That was enough for me. Maybe next year.
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I heart snow! I miss Colorado :(