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[SanFrantastico]

I finally got a chance to test my snowboard setup on a little road trip to the Eastern Sierra.


It was just me and Pepe (aka Pepito aka Pepitito) for the first 3 1/2 hours through pissing rain and rolling scrub.


I met my friend Jim at kirkwood and proceeded to get rad in the 12-year-old's park off chair 7 because the snow was like polished marble after the rain and overnight freeze.






It was fun. I don't really ride in terrain parks that much so I made use of the time to learn as much as possible. After the last lift we took off toward Lee Vining.

We got four hours sleep before hitting the road again for the Convict Creek drainage. Here's Mt. Morrison at the crack of dawn.




Jim bailed with TEX to ride this sweet line:

(photocredit Dan Mingori.)

While I teamed up with Marc to check out Mt. Morrison.


** Disclaimer - Do not climb mountains in the Winter unless you have a partner, avalanche equiptment, and avalanche training. Avalanches can kill you. **











We dug a snow pit at around 10,800 ft in the heart of the bowl to check for stability. Howz it look??






The riding wasn't that good because the rain had crusted up big sections of snow. But it's still exhilarating to put in 3000 ft. of fresh tracks.