Today was the last day of the season for Squaw Valley. Fortunately, we had great snow to close it out; a good freeze last night and sunny skies with a slight east wind.

Nancy’s friend from high school, Anna Chaput, and her friend Terry joined us for some turns.

Anna spent all day looking for the most extreme lines. Here she is hammering the bumps into puny little piles on East Face.

Anna? Are you sure you want to do East Face again? It’s looking a little bony.

Nancy skied for three hours before leaving to attend a retirement party for a co-worker in Reno.

Upper East Face Gully had some great snow. It was a classic spring day: ski the east-facing pitches in the morning, and hit the north-facing runs in the afternoon.

Terry doing some knee-dippin’ on Red Dog Ridge.

We skied ourselves silly, and then at 4:00 I joined the crowd for last chair of the season at the top of KT-22.

I like to ski the last run of the season on West Face in memory of Andy “Sheisty Boy” Pertzborn, our old ski buddy. The snow was great, the bumps were huge, and I was smiling the whole way down thinking about Andy.