A Day at Zuma

Most of the resort season just ended this past weekend (April 24th)with record breaking snowfall (Vail 524″). This huge amount of snow kept us mostly in or around the resorts and as a result had less backcountry skiing days then expected.

Regardless when we got out it was awesome.

A perfect day in Montezuma 2/27/2011 with Trent, Tweak, Caitlin and myself with no one around.

The Cornices were crazy that day and a number of the normal lines we were unable to do due to the potential danger of releasing one of those bad boys. Trent wanted to ski “Baby Notch” and the way in required some serious hacking to make the cornice doable (there has never been a cornice in this line for the last 3-4 years):

Caitlin picked out a sweet line that is rarely covered in snow. Here she is trying to get lined-up and making sure that small wind-lip is nothing to be worried about:

Caitlin going fast through the line and onto the open snow-field:

Tweak crushing it in “Little Chute”:

Days like this make this place the best.

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