Saturday was another great day at Berthoud Pass. Our first run up was on the West Side, about an hour hike (it’s probably a whole lot less if you’re not out of shape like I am!) We hit the Meadows and then down to Current Creek, and then took another lap through the 90s off of the Aqueduct. The snow was great, a pretty stable snowpack with about 9 inches of powder.
This time I took a pair of showshoes and a new riding partner, Tony Anzelmo, another .NET developer, and a friend of my last riding partner who STILL HASN’T BOUGHT A BEACON (you know who you are!) Even with a consolidated snowpack, it’s important to have avalanche gear out there. (Thanks to Friends of Berthoud Pass for the avalanche education!)
After lunch, we hit up one last run on Hell’s Half Acre, starting above treeline and down through Hanging Meadow and hit just a little action in Sentinel Chute. I’m not much of a photographer when I ride, but here’s a few pics from some of the slower parts of the day.
Please ALWAYS carry avy gear and insist that your partners do also.
Hell yeah!!!!