173 | Massive Powder at Monarch, CO | 26 Feb 2011

Nearly two years ago, one of my usual partners JJ and I scored seriously deep snow at Monarch, Colorado where only 10" of new snow was reported but the mountain skied more than double (click here for the pictures and video from that February 13, 2009 day).

Towards the end of last week, a storm was brewing and finding its way into the state. The question wasn't about if there would be snow, it was more about how much and where. Surely enough, Monarch received the highest amount out of any other resort with 23" reported in the previous 24 hours as of 4am Saturday. With a plan in mind, I headed down with Forrest along with Tom and Eric for what was an amazing day of deep powder shredding. Unfortunately, the snow was much heavier than the 2% water content had back in 2009, but it was still plenty soft and it skied every bit of 3 FEET deep.


A short edit that doesn't quite showcase how awesome a day it was, although it was largely enhanced while skiing on the 2011/2012 Jaguar Shark from Moment Skis (shameless plug!):