Today was a bit of a reversal.
I watched him beeline toward the catwalk.
not seeing the two small compressions that lead out of the small face.
He skipped off the first, cased the second and starfished onto the catwalk.
You pick yourself and ski limp to the lift.
Then, continue on like nothing happened.
Big Mountain Starfish, I feel your pain.
We ended up behind him on the lift.
Boot punching through wind slab world looked miserable.
We left him behind as we skinned into low visibility, high winds and heavy horizontal snow.
J and I took our time up top, enjoying the hostile weather and the rawness of it all.
He hiked directly over to me.
Around two feet away, he stopped and launched into an intense first run report on Tweeners.
It took me by surprise.
I listened and got a few syllables in every now and then.
The wind slab was just a couple of inches around 11 am as the storm was just getting going.
I got in that Tweeners was also our destination when he stopped to breathe.
Suddenly, he ended the report, clicked into his skis and was off.
He, a blur.
I, a little shell-shocked.
It was truly amazing, one person made EV feel crowded on the unlikeliest of days.
EVI note to Big Mountain Starfish.
J sat silent through the whole ordeal staring in disbelief at the full-face whirlwind.
I shook off the enigma of BMS, wondered if it was just a snow mirage.
EV was just starting to fill in at 11 am.
We at least had the bus stop to ourselves.
EV Black Flag Warning:
High winds and heavy snow still at 9 pm.
Got a report from DPS that Tweeners was filled in again and reactive around three pm.
Tomorrow it will be.
All sorts of different layers are lurking underneath this new storm snow.
Interested, as always, what will go down tomorrow in EV.
