On April 30th, Greg and I planned a big tour around Brighton ski resort. The resort closed a couple weeks ago, so we had had first tracks pretty much all day. It had snowed about 12" of light powder the night before. The snow was great until the sun came out of the clouds for just a few minutes in the early afternoon.
Our goal was to do 6,000 vertical feet in preparation for climbing Mt. Adams and Mt. Hood in two weeks.
Our first lap we went down right next to the Millicent lift.
Our second lap we went a little higher up on Mount Millicent which required us to take off our skis and hike up the crusty slope.
We started down at the Gazex
There were huge cornices all around Patsy Marley and Mt. Wolverine. Here is a picture of someone on top of Patsy Marley. How big do you think that cornice is?
The same person skiing down
At the top of Millicent
The snow turned from perfect 12" powder to 8" of wet junk after only 20 minutes of sun.
Greg had a pretty good crash down the steepest section we skied all day:
Ouch!
One roll
2nd roll
3rd roll
I don't know what hurt worse... the crash or my pride while looking at all those pictures of the crash! Awesome pictures. That was fun.
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That's funny, I was on mt millicent the exact same day. I did the main chute on the front side. I guess I should have called you. Oh wait, I did.
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