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| [looking into the gullet] |
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| [the movie] |
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| [the Bond dude] |
WE SKIED JAWS today, a chute funneling into Day's Fork. With a 45 degree entry, the gulley presents three sets of rocky choke points, not much more than a ski-width wide, which give the 1,000 foot run its name and reputation for thrashing hesitant skiers like the fish or the Bond dude. Quality and plentiful early snow has made it possible to ski a lot of these lines that usually don't fill in sufficiently until January. |
Dr. Fred Grimmer joined us for the tour. Fred is a well-known pediatric ENT (always good to have an M.D. in your party) and we ventured in the backcountry, knowing that we had to have him back at the parking lot by 2:30. As the clock ticked, we made our second descent from the top of Flagstaff into Day's Fork, then back to the top of Silverfork in a blazing 55 minutes -- fast travel by anybody's standards. That put Fred on time for his patient consultation and we too had an early return from another day of untracked descents on some great terrain.
Day's Vertical: 3,700. Season to Date: 35,700.
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