Graham, Jeff and I skied Ptarmigan this afternoon. They both had class this morning, so I lounged around in bed for a while looking at the blue sky out my window. Our first choice was to ski Big League this afternoon, but the weather was deteriorating quickly down south, and with sunshine in Anchorage we decided to head to the front range and hit Ptarmigan. The weather was typical of how its been this last week; fast moving clouds, with flurries and sunshine at the same time. We skied the obvious chute that starts to the right of the summit which made for a great little afternoon tour. I even tripped and somersaulted without consequences which got everyone laughing. Lets hope the weather improves. Looking at the Tordrillos (pictured bellow) while getting ready really wet my appetite for skiing some new stuff.
Anyway, now that Dave has coined the term “mind skiing” in the comments I’ll pass along the mind skiing and other things I’ve read in the office the last couple days.
- To get things started there is a great local story of skiing Aconcagua with strangers.
- In a quest for the most predictable study of all time, a paper published by Dartmouth has determined that ski areas exaggerate their snowfall reports more on weekends.
- Apparently the snow pack in the Wasatch isn’t looking good, and Andrew Mclean has a great post on avalanches complete with illustrations. Still no content from Stinsmania or Politics to share, extremely disappointing.
- Finally, Unhappy Hipsters has had us in tears all week.


February 6, 2010 at 11:22 pm
I skied that on summer solstice once. Dropped in at midnight, in the alpenglow.
So is the shortest night of the year the night before the 21st of June or the night after?
February 7, 2010 at 7:48 am
I really don’t have a clue jimmy, I guess I’ll find out this year. You going out tomorrow? I need some powder turns
February 14, 2010 at 2:01 am
Going south tomorrow (the 13th)with the broheim. I got a few new pairs of skis to try out