Last weekend after watching Day 1 of the US Freeskiing Nationals at Snowbird:
I got on a late-night plane to Las Vegas… To say the very least my day was extremely interesting. Start out by getting dressed up for skiing and spectating and head to Las Vegas wearing a dress and ski boots. Yeah, all the way through security. It was funny and fun until my feet started swelling when we started our initial decent into Vegas. I, being in Las Vegas, decided to go out and partake in some Vegas activities… bed at 4:00 am … wake-up at 6:00 am– head to Mummy mountain 45 minutes outside of Las Vegas. Over the next 7/8 hours I suffered… as in… a whole new world of pain:
Rachael sloggin’ up the zone… got to the top and had very VERY little gas left.
However after climbing thousands of feet skinning and finally boot-packing up the unofficial “Beautiful Couloir” the top was stunning:
check out how narrow our path down looks from the top! If fact it was just wide enough for my skis at one point. Such a phenomenal place. We hiked through 2-4,000 year-old Bristlecones trees… it was a magic place; very powerful to be amongst trees that old. So special. Even though I was hurting, I feel extremely privileged to be in a place with trees that old skiing a sweet couloir!
(picture by Chris Dipietro a local that actually showed us THIS ENTIRE ZONE!)
(Jamey Parks skiing through some BABY Bristlecones. . . still beautiful!)
here’s a big one:
*photo by Chris Dipietro
This is Mummy Mountain: right next to Mount Charleston in Nevada… you can see the mummy: starting with his feet left to right… pretty sweet)
If you look at this picture there is an obvious couloir on the left-from-center of the photo… we skied the little tiny-looking one on the right just before the other ridge cuts it off…
Then, before leaving the Las Vegas area we headed here:
Las Vegas Ski Resort! – WE HAD A BLAST and even had a great night with the Ski Patrol staff out there! SO MUCH FUN! Thanks guys– you were great!
Next we headed to go shred some dunes:
you can see some of the AK lines in the background: Turns out my Dynastars kickass on sand too:
After hiking and shredding the dunes all afternoon- we headed to central Nevada to go stay with B.G. Tackett at Hot Springs Ranch:
B.G.’s generosity, knowledge of the area, passion for the source, and overall friendliness was the highlight of my trip. His place is absolutely amazing based right off of Highway 50 complete with an amazing hotspring in the middle of many different mountain ranges awesome for touring and shredding:
We hiked in the Toiyabe mountains and found some SWEET SNOW and skiing!
Jordan Manley at the top…
our couloir…
our sunset from the top… absolutely STUNNING… this is NEVADA might I remind you!
we skied the center chute in between the largest spires in the middle of the face behind Cody’s head and sled. Pretty huh?
After skiing and shooting some (check out Manley up in the tree:)
we headed back to the hotspring and soaked for a while. Such an amazing place B.G. has out there.
Then we headed to the Ruby Mountain range so as to ski this:
we had too… it was too amazing to pass up on… actually got knee to thigh-deep pow the whole way down too!! AHHH!!!
um…. I can’t even say enough about this day.
After skiing in the Rubies Cody and I headed to Squaw so that I could fly out of Reno… turns out my awesomeness friend Shelly Robertson was out in Squaw for Nationals and WON:
Cherry on top of the trip: WAY TO GO SHELLY GIRL!
All-in-all THIS WHOLE WEEK was an adventure. It was an amazing experience and I got to see why skiing should be awesome in the most mountainous state in the US!
*If you want to get information on Hot Springs Ranch leave a note on my site and I can email you all of B.G.’s information.
