Telluride closing day was awesome. Despite my legs being shot, I decided that I had to make the trek up the mtn to ski gold hill #9
Aforementioned Gold Hill #9
I really wanted to knock off the San Joaquin Couloir (shown behind me) from my backcountry bucket list, unfortunately my backcountry partners had skied it a collective dozen times, and weren't interested in doing it yesterday. Maybe next year
We made the long slog to the top of Ballard Peak which overlooks town. It's a pretty narrow window to be able to ski this safely. Due to the time it takes to reach the top of the peak, the snow is often cooked and avy risk too great. The skies were overcast for the majority of the day, preserving the snow and the sun made an appearance about half an hour before we made our decent, allowing for plenty of visability.
Little Wasatch Face. If you can see a nearly clean line top to bottom, then it's been skied many times by locals. There's some insane terrain here.
Backside of T-ride
The "birthing canal." I chickened out last time I was here despite plenty of "encouragement" from the chairlift. Today I went for it, it's really not as bad as it looks.
all that awesome skiing, yet they closed for the season today. lame