Playing the waiting game in the Chugach

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

So far I have only heard myths about the dreaded periods of prolonged bad weather, I have been very lucky and only experienced short periods of cloud cover and storming. We just recently had the first two semi clear days in over a week and without hesitation got a lift from the first heli out and dropped onto some awesome lines. The rest of the days were spent booting up steep couliors and then skiing back down them. We got a bit skunked on the light but the skiing was off the hook. After booting up almost 2000 vert of 45+ degrees I dropped in and got “chugached,” taken out by my sluff and got a bit worked but snuck out to the left to finish the big line. Its dumping again and we are spending the day recuperating and getting stuff done at the Valdez library which is a very chill place. Following are some of my photo’s from the past week and then Jay Beyer’s shots.