<\/a><\/p>\nWe were too tired and cold to do much more than prepare to ski once at the top. The top portion of the chute was much rockier than expected, and I didn’t have the strength left to make use of the possibilities such obstacles presented, so I sideslipped most of the hard bits. Once in the chute proper though, the snow was perfect and the turns came easy. Great ski. We also timed the moonlight nearly perfectly, we skied down about a half hour before its apogee, at due south and 56* altitude. So nearly perpendicular to the ~45-50* SE chute. From there we skied down the moraines and meadows into the slidepath and back to the car, arriving right around midnight PST as permits closed. On the way home I got pulled over by the police and asked if I’d had anything to drink today. I replied I had some whiskey around 1.. Didn’t quite occur to my mushy brain at the time to add “PM” onto that. They sent me on my way after realizing I was just a tired idiot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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