backcountry skiing – Perpetual Weekend by Jim Harris

Return to Happyland

Jim Harris — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 21:15:54 +0000

This is Happyland. Sixteen months ago the Mountain Animals spent a week here skiing fabulously deep snow. When we skied these pillows last year someone started calling the zone “pillow fight” but I like “Happyland,” the name the TGR crew came up with earlier this winter, too. Despite being light and fluffy, the snow in Interior BC sticks to near-vertical surfaces. If this rack were here in Utah the topsheets would be bare. But, this isnt Utah and so the...

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Dawn Patrolin’

Jim Harris — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:47:15 +0000

Ty, Ian and I met long before sunrise this morning, hoping to be the first to the top of Mt Superior for some powder skiing. It doesn’t take many mornings out in Little Cottonwood to realize that there’s a whole posse of folks who ski the south face of Superior at sunup before heading into office. It’s a testament to an early alarm clock wakeup and some good luck to actually see the face untracked below one’s ski tips in...

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Hotlaps

Jim Harris — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:38:24 +0000

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Amac Attack

Jim Harris — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 11:14:02 +0000

Andrew, Courtney and I managed to ski about seventeen varieties of ” snow” today including smooth chalky powder, zipper crust, breakable crust, supportable crust, fresh avalanche debris, old avalanche chunder, corn, corn’d avalanche debris and finally just above the car, bottomless mank.

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Doomed

Jim Harris — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:06:42 +0000

Foiled for the umpteenth time at skiing Timp, I settled instead for a tour through the sheep pen. Pete and I hitched a ride from the mouth of Big Cottonwood to Alta and that alone has the potential to turn an average ski day into an adventure. For the record Mom, my ratio of good experiences to bad while hitchhiking in Little and Big Cottonwood Canyons are about 25:1, maybe higher. Our driver, an older gent, 2nd geared up LCC...

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