Have some free time today while everybody is still sleeping off their hangovers from yesterday, so I thought I'd post a few pics from my trip to Alaska (currently ongoing).
On the plane ride down to Newark, I got some aerial views of Windham and Hunter:
Flights were fine, and immediately when I landed, we went up to do a little tour in an area about 15 minutes away from downtown.
View of Anchorage after a 20 minute skin:
Nice Lines:
Then we saw a moose walking down the street on the drive home:
Saturday, I skied Alyeska. Didn't get many pictures on the mountain (more video, had the GoPro with chest harness going), but the drive down was nice:
Nice Lines:
Part of the mountain was closed for the Chugach Open (freeride comp with an entry to the WESC on the line), but the rest of the mountain skied well (chopped up pow, nice drops, cool chutes).
Saturday, we got started before sunrise on a "Ski Train" north to Curry, AK.
We were well prepared, breakfast burritos made the night before and warmed in the oven (Eggs, bacon, ham, sausage, black beans, mushrooms, onions, and peppers with mango peach chipotle salsa on the side), Keg of IPA from a local brewery, Two boxes of Franzia, cooler full of bloody mary and chili slow cooking on a crockpot. Both the ride there and the ride back were complete drunken craziness. Awesome.
Skiing was weird (snow conditions were kind of ehhh), but the experience was awesome. Train from the top:
Drunken train ride back, great night. Now I'm off to go Ice Climbing. Will update this post later with more pics and video.