FirstTracks
10-21-2007, 01:37 PM
Day 2: The best October turns of my life. Period.
Pulling in the Wildcat parking lot at 10 am today looked like a midweek mid-winter day. There had to be 150-200 cars in the parking lot...the place was a madhouse!
http://www.firsttracksonline.com/boards/files/02_alta_wildcat_071021.jpg
Mt. Superior is already looking mighty white:
http://www.firsttracksonline.com/boards/files/01_alta_mt_superior_071021.jpg
Tracks were already being laid everywhere. We had 10 people in our crew: Skidog, Bob Dangerous, Dale, Pat, Jon, Graz, Graz's friend Mars, Dale and Pat's son Brad, a friend of Brad's, and yours truly. Skinning up was a long lemming line.
http://www.firsttracksonline.com/boards/files/03_alta_under_collins_071021.jpg
http://www.firsttracksonline.com/boards/files/04_alta_armpit_071021.jpg
http://www.firsttracksonline.com/boards/files/05_alta_baldy_shoulder_071021.jpg
http://www.firsttracksonline.com/boards/files/06_alta_bob_dale_pat_ascending_071021.jpg
http://www.firsttracksonline.com/boards/files/07_alta_hiking_071021.jpg
We headed for the top of Wildcat.
http://www.firsttracksonline.com/boards/files/08_alta_collins_gulch_071021.jpg
Once regrouping there and deskinning the group split into two -- Bobby D, Dale, Pat and I headed down through Wildcat trees while the others opted to lap the upper face.
http://www.firsttracksonline.com/boards/files/09_alta_jons_first_turn_071021.jpg
http://www.firsttracksonline.com/boards/files/10_alta_skidog_071021.jpg
http://www.firsttracksonline.com/boards/files/11_alta_brad_gehrig_071021.jpg
http://www.firsttracksonline.com/boards/files/12_alta_mars_071021.jpg
http://www.firsttracksonline.com/boards/files/13_alta_graz_071021.jpg
It was bottomless. Literally. Bob made the wisecrack, "This is more snow than Park City will see all winter!" Our first pitch was tracked up yet fluffy, but once we rounded the corner into Wildcat trees it was untracked the whole way to the parking lot. Amazing!! One heluva preseason day -- this ain't Rocktober. I hit only one minor rock on a traverse - I hit nothing while actually skiing.
1,300 feet of vert. I shot a helmet cam video the whole way, but regrettably the Oregon Scientific cam I'm trying really can't handle exposure on snow. Add that to the fact that I shot 3/4 of it rotated 90 degrees by mistake, and the fact that it was aimed too high, and regrettably I don't have any usable video footage to share. I've got to get a good lipstick cam for the DV camcorder.
Total strangers were exhanging high fives in the parking lot. Amazing.
Pulling in the Wildcat parking lot at 10 am today looked like a midweek mid-winter day. There had to be 150-200 cars in the parking lot...the place was a madhouse!
http://www.firsttracksonline.com/boards/files/02_alta_wildcat_071021.jpg
Mt. Superior is already looking mighty white:
http://www.firsttracksonline.com/boards/files/01_alta_mt_superior_071021.jpg
Tracks were already being laid everywhere. We had 10 people in our crew: Skidog, Bob Dangerous, Dale, Pat, Jon, Graz, Graz's friend Mars, Dale and Pat's son Brad, a friend of Brad's, and yours truly. Skinning up was a long lemming line.
http://www.firsttracksonline.com/boards/files/03_alta_under_collins_071021.jpg
http://www.firsttracksonline.com/boards/files/04_alta_armpit_071021.jpg
http://www.firsttracksonline.com/boards/files/05_alta_baldy_shoulder_071021.jpg
http://www.firsttracksonline.com/boards/files/06_alta_bob_dale_pat_ascending_071021.jpg
http://www.firsttracksonline.com/boards/files/07_alta_hiking_071021.jpg
We headed for the top of Wildcat.
http://www.firsttracksonline.com/boards/files/08_alta_collins_gulch_071021.jpg
Once regrouping there and deskinning the group split into two -- Bobby D, Dale, Pat and I headed down through Wildcat trees while the others opted to lap the upper face.
http://www.firsttracksonline.com/boards/files/09_alta_jons_first_turn_071021.jpg
http://www.firsttracksonline.com/boards/files/10_alta_skidog_071021.jpg
http://www.firsttracksonline.com/boards/files/11_alta_brad_gehrig_071021.jpg
http://www.firsttracksonline.com/boards/files/12_alta_mars_071021.jpg
http://www.firsttracksonline.com/boards/files/13_alta_graz_071021.jpg
It was bottomless. Literally. Bob made the wisecrack, "This is more snow than Park City will see all winter!" Our first pitch was tracked up yet fluffy, but once we rounded the corner into Wildcat trees it was untracked the whole way to the parking lot. Amazing!! One heluva preseason day -- this ain't Rocktober. I hit only one minor rock on a traverse - I hit nothing while actually skiing.
1,300 feet of vert. I shot a helmet cam video the whole way, but regrettably the Oregon Scientific cam I'm trying really can't handle exposure on snow. Add that to the fact that I shot 3/4 of it rotated 90 degrees by mistake, and the fact that it was aimed too high, and regrettably I don't have any usable video footage to share. I've got to get a good lipstick cam for the DV camcorder.
Total strangers were exhanging high fives in the parking lot. Amazing.