Matt, Aaron and I(Rory, this is my first blog post ever) went to the South Sister for some cool weather during this hot time of year. We started at the Green Lakes trail head.
We decided to go up the day before and camp at Green Lakes .
The trail was gorgeous all the way up to Green Lakes, the river was really pretty.
The South Sister in all her glory awaiting the mighty conquerors to ski up and then back down. By the way this is like my first real tele-mark experience.
Aaron decided to take a little swim with all of his gear on. When jumping off of the snow drift his skis hit the snow and catapulted him into the river.
Since Emily wasn't here to be the photographer I assumed the role of photographer.
The next morning we got up at 5:00am and left the campsite. As soon as we left it started to rain and rain and rain. We skinned up the side of the mountain except my skins kept coming off of my skis that I borrowed, so I decided to just hike.
Here we are..... but not at the top. After several hours and several thousand feet of climbing we decided the rain, wind and intense cloud cover won the day. So we decided to come off of the mountain skiing. Now I've skied before but tele-mark is a lot harder than it looks especially with a large pack on. Needless to say we all made it down in one piece, just a little wet and cold. It was definitely a fun trip.
1 comment:
Nice! That looks awesome! I am glad wore his camo pants! Ha ha...
Would you mind emailing me some of those pics? When I try to copy and paste it diminishes the quality for blog book making! And some of the 4th ones too?
Please :)
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