Almost Powder days and Sunny TC

It rained all day Saturday, so early Sunday morning 2 cars loads of Irish (Myself, Orla, Neal, Chris and Julie-ann in one car Sean, Kevin and Michael in the other, Mel on the hill and 2 of Orla friends from home bumped into us for the afternoon) got up early and hit the hills in search of powder, one thing lead to another and our early rise got later and later. Our aim was for first lift, we made it there by 10. Petrol, flat tire and chains - the gods were against us. But we did finally make it - and managed to grand a few tail ends of fresh tracks and lots and lots of powder. With the day that was in it, we decided to all have dinner at our place. A completely impromptu affair. Down off the hill at 530 - dinner at 7 - it was never gonna happen - but we had fun trying.

Time to start making use of my cheap day passes and ski at Treble Cone. Myself, Kevin, Sean, Michael and Chris piled into Ruby and headed up the hill for another day of powder fun. As usual the aim was to get there for first lift at 9 am but as always something crops up and guess what - we made it up by 10 am. Heading straight for Saddle Basin to get away from the piste and the crowds, I spot a couple of potential hikes. It only took my have a run to convince the boys that hiking was the way forward, bags and boards on bag we trekked up the hill to find some SWEET powder. Ok, so it was a short run, but also a short hike and with only a few other tracks on the hill - it was easy to get your own fresh line. We hiked that hill 4 more times that day. Unfortunately, I hadn't realized that the last lift was at 315 and not at 330. We arrived down to a very grumpy ski patrol. I can understand his point of view - we were late - but it was a genuine mistake. Oh well these things happen.



Sean on Cloud 9 in Treble Cone


Chris on the little bit of powder we found - hiked up skiers right of the saddle basin lift, TC


Chris and Kevin on top of the world - well, ok then TC