We finally got out to Squaw, our first day of the year.

It was cold with frequent snow and graupel, mostly flat light, but also a ray of sunshine here and there.

There was about six to nine inches of new snow from last night (two inches at the house), but it got very warm yesterday before the front came in, so the new snow is on a very icy base. You had to be careful on every turn not to get smacked by the ice bumps underneath.

I was lazy, sleeping in, and we didn’t get out until noon. We skied until almost 4:00, getting a few fresh turns here and there. My best run was my last, working the steep spines in Poulson’s Gully.

Here’s Nancy in the Horse Trails off Cornice II.