That was me after being completely submerged in powder for a couple hundred feet on our last run just after 1pm. It was my first all-out powder day on next year's Bibby Pro from Moment Skis, and there was no disappointment with them.
Yes, I do have an affiliation with them, but the Bibby 190 absolutely killed it all day long even when skiing into the rare patch of snow with a firm layer underneath or when conditions became tracked-out. For those interested, the ski is 190cm in length (there is also a 186cm version with flat camber) with dimensions of 143-118-134 and both tip & tail rocker. I measured the effective edge at 122cm along with slight camber and plenty stiffness underfoot.
Enough of the plug. Onward and upward ....
The long story: I spent most of Thursday pissing off work (or at least making it look that I was incredibly busy and couldn't be bother) while my eyes were glued to all and every weather model I could find. The early predictions were looking fairly solid for the central mountains including Monarch. Needing a powder fix since I was skunked the previous weekend at Lost Wonder Hut, the black lung was crawling inside me and a sick day was in order; little did I know that it would be two-fold.
Friday morning, I woke up around half past five and checked the snow reports. To my delighted surprise, Monarch was the big winner of the day with 10" of new snow overnight. After a quick call to JJ, our plan was in line and three hours later, we found ourselves basking in white gore glory. We had two warmup runs in dust-on-crust conditions but spent the entire time between 10am and 1pm in the Mirkwood area which was absolutely amazing.
Now ask yourself: does this look like 10" to you?
Of course it does, and JJ most certainly agrees with you:
I should probably check into a hospital because I look so deathly ill, right?
Probably a good idea for JJ to follow suit since he doesn't well here either:
Below is the always-necessary video edit which doesn't contain a whole lot of footage since the massive amount of face shots buried my camera for most of the day. Music is provided by Rennie Pilgrem and his track called "Go Back".
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5 comments:
Tom- This is Justin aka Mr.Whitefolks from rhythmism.
Been digging your blog since you told me about it.
Looks like the freshies were unreal yesterday! Seems way better than work.
Keep up the great work here.
Glad you dig it Justin. Days like that are few and far in between so you gotta take advantage of it when you can.
Holy crap batman!
That's deep!
Aww man. I WAS in Monarch...on Thursday, right before this storm. But we figured the same storm would hit Telluride. However while Monarch got 10" Telluride only got 4". Oh well, that's just the way it goes.
As for the next two weekends, I've lucked out and scored some free beds in the high country-- Vail this weekend and Breck the next. Do you want to meet up and hit the 'slackcountry' at either resort? I'll be up for it.
That's very possible but I'm leaning towards some peak bagging this weekend. I'll be sure to get in touch with you later in the week either way.
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