Snowy Range Powder

Brown's Peak Area via Little Brooklyn Lakes
Snowy Range Mountains, Medicine Bow NF
December 16th, 2006

Dino heads up the skin track.

I've never really spent any time these mountains, especially in the winter. Dino met a feller, John, that had skied them a bunch and was willing to take us out. We left Casper, WY around 6am or so. I think we were skinning by 9am. The snow was awesome, too good. It was snowing so hard you couldn't really see much. Kind of a bummer for a new area. I know there were some big mountains and impressive terrain around, but I couldn't see it very well. It definitely wasn't a good day to be on the big stuff anyway. Whoompfing in the flats, screaming winds and heavy snow all pretty strong indicators that tree shots, and lower angles would have to satisfy powppetite today.

Dino and John make there way up to the bench where we decided to drop from. From here you could see Brown's Peak, barely every once in a while, when the snow an wind died down. From what I could gander, it was very worthy... wish it would have given us a pass. Oh well, I know where it lives now. Guess we'd just have to make do with what we could, it was still pretty good.

Shad rockets through the pow!

Dino gets his first tele turns in for the year!

John marks it up!

After a few runs, we got pretty hungry. Since it was all down hill from here Dino and John decided to roast their skins for lunch. Yummy! Ha!

Actually, it was so could out- below zero with the wind, that their skins were freezing. They weren't sticking to to their skis anymore. Warming them up by a fire got them working again.

Dino slices up some more powder!

Dino blows on down the rest of the hill. After thawing skins out, we headed up the hill for our final runs of the day. I think I yo-yoed this shot about eight times. Short, but fun!

Time to head back. John and Dino head down the trail.


Tallulah says "Hi!"