Where: Montezuma, Colorado

When: 8/29/09-8/30/09

Who: Trent, Tweak, Scott, Duncan, Evan, Caitlin (as the sole female), Ellie the dog, and myself.

An overnight car-camping trip in the Deer Creek Valley was an opportunity to see the valley when it is not covered in snow. Overall a really crazy thing to see how different it looks in the Summer and the Winter. Some of the amazing things I thought was how much snow fills into the valley (7-10 ft), how much water is in the valley (huge beaver dams), how lush the slopes that we ski are, and how much I don’t like Scott Miller (I kid…).

Another major goal was to work on our base-camp area since it has fallen into disrepair this past winter. We built a great firepit that should be way better then the weak set-up we had last year and then helped reinforce a major wind-block as to better protect one part of the base-camp area.

Besides that we caused a lot of havoc:

Fireworks over Zuma:

The Beaver Dams:

The hardest part about crossing the Beaver Dams is making sure you don’t spill your beer. Trent was successful at that but still managed to get wet:

Evan attempting to look cool:

Zuma in the Morning (Left to Right: Steeps, Washout, Cone 1, Cone2, Cone 3):

Baby Chute and Big Chute w/o Snow (mtn goats were wandering around the top earlier):

Ellie the Water Dog:

Click on the Snow Category to the right to see other adventures at Zuma.