Good adventure but I have a feeling that it might have been easier if you subtracted a bit from the car mileage and added it to the ski mileage?
In our parts the summer trailheads are still thoroughly snowed in and the end of winter plowing is pretty much it. So last weekend a exploratory ski tour with barely 4,000 vertical turned into a 12+ miler one way ... but I'd rather ski the access roads than be high centered driving there :)
our first thought was that we definitely would have made it home many hours sooner if we had simply skinned the additional few miles, but the problem was we didn't think the snow was that deep beforehand. live and learn.
Potential NM resident staring this spring. Great report. Give a good view and description of this ski. Looks like a good tour that, wit the correct weather system, could make for a nice long nordic day with a sweet slide back down.
Dmitry Pruss - Apr 23, 2009 3:03 pm - Voted 10/10
At least you had a shovel :)Good adventure but I have a feeling that it might have been easier if you subtracted a bit from the car mileage and added it to the ski mileage?
In our parts the summer trailheads are still thoroughly snowed in and the end of winter plowing is pretty much it. So last weekend a exploratory ski tour with barely 4,000 vertical turned into a 12+ miler one way ... but I'd rather ski the access roads than be high centered driving there :)
scotthsu - Apr 23, 2009 3:10 pm - Hasn't voted
you're rightour first thought was that we definitely would have made it home many hours sooner if we had simply skinned the additional few miles, but the problem was we didn't think the snow was that deep beforehand. live and learn.
Jason Halladay - May 12, 2009 10:37 am - Voted 10/10
muy bienNice one Scott and Amy. From town it didn't look like Chicoma skiing would be so good this season. Way to take advantage of a nice spring day.
Kruck - Feb 7, 2012 2:52 pm - Voted 10/10
Great reportPotential NM resident staring this spring. Great report. Give a good view and description of this ski. Looks like a good tour that, wit the correct weather system, could make for a nice long nordic day with a sweet slide back down.
scotthsu - Feb 7, 2012 10:24 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: Great reportthanks for the comment; the skiing is great in NM when we have snow!