BACKCOUNTRY
Japhy Rider! Japhy Rider! Japhy Rider…Should be Japhy (Rough) Rider! Leave it up to McD to put a hurtin on everyone in the backcountry. Not only was the climbing rough(about three grand) but skiing down, as Smithers put it, “did you guys here and see all those rocks I was jibbin?” Even though he wasn’t on Teles, the beast was shredding! Made me wanna break out my board again…wait a minute, tele love, right J (rough) R!!!
So our first 216.71 feet of verticle lost was combined with exquisite powder turns, acrobatics, devilish laughter, and barking dogs(Oso) who seemed to share in the shenanigans of the fine day! The last 2783.290000 feet of verticle was skiing and riding rock slalom gates, rock hopin, rock jibbin, rock grindin, bush slidin, bush wackin(mind out of the gutter), and…ever seen that survival show on TV with that English dude…that ain’t shizzzit compared to what we lived through today!
Don’t get me wrong, I had a wonderful, beautiful, glorious, and adventurous day out there with with the fellas(canines included)!
Can’t wait to do it again McD
Oh yeah, stay the hell away from the Mt. Rose Proper area everyone, at least for now!
PS - The pic on the left is pic I promised earlier, nothin special, just good ridin!
The other pic is after sharing Tecates with the felleas and Solomon - before the big drop in!
-Nooner
07
Jan
07
Sounds killa. Good luck with the skiing tomorrow. I’m riding with the fixie bike geeks and The Ape tomorrow.
This reminds me of the year I dumped all my X-mas cash on a custom MTB and got it delivered with 3 feet in reno. I took one for the team that year. We’d better go back to urban huxterism.
-M
Need some P-tex
ah yeah - ptex and a base grinder. ski shops must be making a killing on tune-ups this Sierra ski season.
today went a bit better. promises of latte’s and apres ski dutch oven dinner got us out of bed by 10:00am. Nooner and Smithers even gave me a second chance and joined for another day of Hi adventure. lucky though, coverage in the Castle Pk area was respectable. conditions ranged from heavily sledded to wind buffed to chalk to pow to verglass. sometimes all at once. we lost one dog (beast went for the extreme north face when no one was looking, props to the bilers who corralled him and were there till we tracked him down about an hour later. everything worked out, and hey, some of us got in a shot down a north facing couloir we wouldn’t have otherwise touched with a 10 foot avie probe…). dinner was fly. now the coffee pot’s primed and it’s bed time.
happy Monday.
Japhy rider