The 2004-2005 Ski Season

Goal: a ten-month season


Mountain

  1. Sierra-at-Tahoe, CA (T)
  2. Kirkwood, CA
  3. Kirkwood, CA (T)
  4. Kirkwood, CA
  5. Kirkwood, CA
  6. Alta, UT
  7. Alta, UT
  8. Snowbird, UT
  9. Sierra-at-Tahoe, CA (T)
  10. Kirkwood, CA (T)
  11. Kirkwood, CA
  12. Kirkwood, CA (T)
  13. Sierra-at-Tahoe, CA
  14. Sierra-at-Tahoe, CA
  15. Kirkwood, CA (T)
  16. Alpine Meadows, CA
  17. Alpine Meadows, CA
  18. Sugar Bowl, CA
  19. Sierra-at-Tahoe, CA
  20. Kirkwood, CA
  21. Sierra-at-Tahoe, CA
  22. Kirkwood, CA (T)
  23. Sierra-at-Tahoe, CA
  24. Kirkwood, CA (T)
  25. Alpine Meadows, CA (T)
  26. Crater Crest, Twin Lakes, CA (T)
  27. Mini-Morrison/Hippy Chutes, CA (T)
  28. Virginia Lakes, CA (T)
  29. North Chutes, Virginia Lakes, CA
  30. Devil's Slide, Carson Peak, CA (T)
  31. No-Name Peak, Sonora Pass, CA (T)
  32. "True" White Mtn., Tioga Pass, CA (T)
  33. Conness Lakes Basin, Mt. Conness, CA (T)
  34. Kook Chute, North Peak Mt. Conness, CA (T)
  35. Kook Bowl, North Peak Mt. Conness, CA (T)

Date

10/30
11/6
11/14
12/4
12/5
12/10
12/11
12/12
1/12
1/22
1/29
1/30
2/23
2/27
3/12
3/20
3/21
3/22
3/23
3/24
3/25
3/26
4/9
4/17
5/7
5/14
5/22
5/27
5/28
5/29
5/30
6/12
7/31
8/1
9/17
Notes

Happy Halloween!
Warm sun, cold windblown powder
Dry hardpack--but it's 11/14!
Testing Cosmo's handiwork all weekend, and...
...there's fine snow despite a missed storm
Four feet of heavy (?) powder
Drier snow, more untracked
Powder and corn for breakfast and lunch
So that's what 19' looks like
January "thaw" means corn and crust
All-day powder, not crust, not slush: powder!
OK, the sun got to it
Dry powder hiding in dense woods
Out of bounds untracked
Bulldozing corn
First of a weekful of storms
Powder along the ridges
2' dry on 2' of cement, 1" visibility
They really DID get 48"
Big lines on big snow
Cleanup in the woods, BC, and moguls
Leisurely telemarking in the slush
Morning powder, afternoon heat
DEEP slush, non-stop turns
DEEPER slush... more new snow
DEEP slush, but at ridiculously low elevations
Corn! It finally freezes for the telebration
Early morning slush in a familiar spot
Perfect corn facing away from the crowd
Roadside convenience!
Following the sun to High Sierra spring perfection
A long tour to spectacular scenery
Bottom-feeding in slide debris below Flinty's
Steep rippled snow in August!
Month #12! The snow was ass.

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