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| no partners | | This has to be the best snow we've had since I moved up here 10 years ago. I started on the Pole Knoll Loop trail, which I don't usually ski when i go to Pole Knoll, due to the fact that most of the time it is not skiable--too many bare spots out in those big meadows.
But today was sweet. I started out following someone else's tracks. The FS has groomed part of the area, but thankfully not the whole loop. I dislike groomed trails. Once I got around behind the knoll, the skier who made the tracks took off up the mtn. I decided to follow the Pole Knoll loop itself, and found that breaking trail was easy and fast. The best surface for this sport is packed snow with a little loose stuff on top. I slid along pretty well.
Out in those big meadows it is so beautiful. You can see Sunrise slopes, but no one else is around. Some snowmobilers off in the distance, but no one else. To follow this loop you really have to pay attention to the signs, which are far apart, and the blue tags on trees. Sometimes they are far apart, and that is when I was glad I had done it before, because otherwise I might have gotten a bit confused. Once I got back into the woods and within a mile and a half of the parking lot, the groomed trail was there, so I followed it. It just has no esthetic appeal, and is also kind of rough and slippery. I was not impressed. Some people do like it, though, I guess.
I am guiding a trip here on Superbowl Sunday. We'll be meeting at Bashas' in Eagar at 9 a.m. Arrive ready to ski! I will post it as an event, and it's also on ABC. |
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