JD and I rented touring skiis, boots and skins for the weekend and made for Storm Mountain (3118m). Started off from the car at 9am, up through thinning trees. Never used these things before, so the concept is new and we dont trust them. Soon enough we learn you can go up pretty much any slope. We continue up the base of a valley to reach an upper bowl. A few hundred meters switchbacking takes us as high as we can go on skis. We boot-pack the last couple-hundred meters of vertical to the summit.
Back to our skiis, we lock-down the bindings and make a few turns. its awkward at first, but we soon find a rythm. Its easier turning in the upper bowl in valley, but down where the trees get thicker its a big effort no to crash.
7 hrs up, 30 minutes down!
