First day on the K2 Hell Bents!

What a Hoot!

How long has it been snowing? How many times have
we skied Creblet to Verbier this year? What uproarious skiing we’ve had for days
and days now. I have been shoveling my parking lot 2 times a day with little
relief.

What a blast these new reverse
camber skis are from good ol’ K2. I did a quick run under the lift off
Ruinnettes before the Funispace opened. It was a bit chopped up from yesterday,
with 30cm of fresh from last night. But skiing was so easy with these skis! I am
able to turn them sideways like a snowboard, in mid-turn. That’s it! It really
is like having 2 snow boards on my feet. It’s me that dictates what angle to the
fall line I want to direct my boards. What a
hoot!

It cleared as we got on the Funi
to les Attelas. Bodies all choked up along the ridge towards Creblet. Skiing
over their skis, they’re skiing over my skis- every one laughing and giggling,
free falling into steeper and steeper slopes as the view disappears in front of
the curtain of powder pushed up ahead of
me.

No
pictures…

The snow pack is real
interesting. It was so warm when it started snowing 3 weeks ago. The ground is
still taking its time freezing up. There was another fine example of snow
slippage yesterday up on the steep, grassy slopes west of Creblet. A hug, gaping
crack to the ground where the snow pulled way from itself exposed the grass
underneath. At 1600 meters, we have 40cm of wet big grains. Then an ice layer,
then another 40 or so centimeters of more wet big grains. Then another layer of
ice with all this fresh stuff on
top.

The forecast is for real cold
temps for the first time since we got all this snow. If that lasts for a few
days, all these layers may bond into some wicked snow pack for the
winter…

the Hell Bents

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