Reports from The Land Of NAZ, 18/19

Ok, one more post on my silly farming turns effort. Snowbowl has a pic of it on their home page on their website now.



And one last pic of my own and I swear I’m letting this go....:D

How did you keep that little untouched patch all to yourself?

It's a tiny little slope that requires ducking a rope and traversing with a bit of sidestepping to get to right under the lift. Then it takes a short 1 minute sidestep to get back to the lift. It's sort of silly and extremely high profile. Again, I was super bored. The hill also sits right across from the main lodge and management offices so I sort of new it was going to hit teh social media.

I was doing hiking laps originally right up the one open ski run, patrol and courtesy patrol all stopped to see what I was up to. I'm pretty close with 99% of patrol so they let my slide.

A work of

raisingarizona wrote

 It's sort of silly and extremely high profile. Again, I was super bored. The hill also sits right across from the main lodge and management offices so I sort of new it was going to hit teh social media.

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It's a work of art!

This past week has been just stunning here at the Arizona Snowbowl. These are all from today.

Very nice, sign me up.

Between your snowfarming photo and some of these, you should barter your photos for a season pass.

That first pic of the chair in the alpineglow with the inversion is stunning.

Marcski wrote

Between your snowfarming photo and some of these, you should barter your photos for a season pass.

That first pic of the chair in the alpineglow is stunning.

Thanks Marcski, I’ve been trying for that but unfortunately they just fired my main connection who I was starting to develop a good relationship with. My daughter scored a pass this year which we really appreciate. I’ve done a lot of media stuff over the years, it may be time to start talking directly with Durango. The AZSB GM and I don’t exactly get along.

I’m a lifer.

raisingarizona wrote

I’m a lifer.

Spectacular.

Those trees are incredible by EC standards. Years ago I skied in the Tahoe area during a low-snow year. Being from the East, I thought the conditions were pretty good. I remember standing at the top of run, looking up and wondering what the ring of marks in the bark was caused by. They were consistently about 12 feet up. Some mysterious Tahoe woodpecker? It eventually dawned on me that they were caused by people knocking snow off their skis during a normal snow year. Unreal.

Thanks SBR. Those trees are pretty good when we have some snow. Right now our natural base is probably around 25 inches, not enough for safe tree skiing here and the ten day is looking high and dry.

To be completely honest......I’m stoked! I’ve been way more hyped for trail building than skiing this year. I should be able to get a bunch more days in now on our project before the snow really flies.

With no new snow we are back at the trail building!

5 star day in Sedona today. 65 degrees and sunny. Today was my first ride since August.

what did you ride?

raisingarizona wrote

Today was my first ride since August.

How did that feel?  

It felt pretty good actually. I did a fairly easy ride as far as Sedona riding goes. My arse is a bit sore.

Rode- Chuck Wagon > Mescal > Long Canyon > Dead Mans Pass > Aerie > Cockscomb > Aerie > Dead Mans Pass > Mescal > Canyon Of Fools > OK Trail > Arizona Cypress > Snake > Girdner > back to Boynton Pass Road and my car.

Nice.  Two weeks off my bike and I feel like I'm going to vomit even doing an easy ride.

I get that for sure but somehow I was ok. I’m a super lazy mountain biker to be honest unless it’s steep and nasty, then I get after it. It’s kind of like my skiing I guess. I’m ok with that. :D

Sedona is pretty rad. It’s like a mini Zion NP but you get to mountain bike in it!