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April 19th at Arapahoe Basin
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The snow's stopped after the previous 2 days brought 31 inches to the top of the Continental Divide. This morning there was 3 new inches, nicely sweetening the mountain. This is how it looks before things get going.
A few minutes later, the view from the top.
Halfway down...
Looking down the famous Pallavacini - in the pictures of the whole front of the mountain, below, it's the big open field that drops from the top of the mountain.
These chutes are beyond the border of the ski area, but people do hike to these peaks and ski them. On the two pictures at right, the zig-zagged track was made by a patroler, testing the snow for avalanche danger. Normal skiing would have much more rounded turns.
This guy just happened by
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The well known party seen at the bottom of A-Basin , known as the beach. I'm told when it warms up there's lots of girls in bikinis. Since yesterday started at 20 degrees (before going to a balmy 45), there was no such activity yesterday.
After skiing, I took a ride up from the ski area to the Loveland Pass, which passes over the Continental Divide. I frequently play Across the Great Divide when making this trip. These kids ski in drops they get to by car and hiking - they are not in the boundaries of the ski area. Some of the pictures have no skiers - but the tracks in them were left behind by some serious skiers.
In the first picture, the center of the screen (by the bend in the road), is where the rest of the pictures were shot from. The strip of trees in the middle of the next to last picture is where most of the earlier pictures were shot. It gets little traffic and the snow was almost untouched for my first three runs.
