we stopped at the high point and checked out the backside of the flatirons. rising to the left of the left pine tree is sugarloaf, to the right is green, the sacred cliffs descending into bear canyon, with nebel horn popping up on the rise to bear. south boulder is obscured and still closed to traffic.
erik has a flashy new jacket (go nean!). i have a flashy big beard.
erica and i came back this past weekend and skied the south side of the trail. this was a bit less tame but, given the awesome weather, much busier.
stopped at the same spot for some good cookies. erica's getup was awesome.
what wasn't awesome was my poles' baskets both disintegrating right at the trailhead. quite a shock! i hadn't used these in a few years, but never imagined they'd just become daggers. this was fine for the shallow snow at the start, but was pretty terrible in the four foot drifts. there were some strange folks hiking out in those drifts despite the fact that they all had snowshoes. the trashed trail didn't help matters. grr. i got grumpy.
saving the best for last... it was hard to stay a grump with this kind of entertainment.
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