Rylan and I decided that we needed to take the tahoe boys down cosmiques today, as a bit of snow fell last night and they leave town soon. With mixed reports of the quality of the snow in there, we decided to give it a shot. The crew was stoked to check out one of the most famous lines here, especially if you are American. Rappel? awesome. im extreme!
Here are Eric and Jason checking the goods...
Rylan playing follow the leader and rapping in first to check it out. With a "how do you feel about your edges boys?" i began to realize how the day was shaping up here.
By the way, this is the coolest photo I have taken in a while!
Eric felt stoked on skiing his 118 underfoot skis on ice, so he was next. nice job kiddo.
The entrance was icy, almost too icy to stick to in places. This required the judicious use of controlled sliding again (which Rylan and I practiced on glacier rond last week) or a very slow and methodical approach. After a bit of an ego check, both ended up working out.
After the icy bits at the top, the middle half of the run was great snow until the avie debris where the exit coulioir meets with cosmiques, then more chunder. The boys were psyched to tick a classic chamonix line, and I was stoked to ski a bit of pow and bring everyone home safely.
Pow for me!
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