We saw a couple people snowshoeing and one guy cross country skiing during the first couple miles.
That was until the sticky icky started to invade my climbing skins.
Otherwise I had to grin and bear it with no glide and a huge ball and chain penalty.
Arty seemed to fare a bit better with the glop karma so he paraded ahead a bit.
After the four hour haul the road turned to reveal our homey cabin at the top of the pass.
The art of hut tripping is found in the balances.
At the road we pushed back up another 10 minutes back to the cabin.
We cracked the first beers in celebration of a great day in a great place.
Arty puffs on a nice Black n Mild cigar as I run in to mix a drink.
We awake late after a hard 10 hour hibernation the next morning.
After breakfast dishes and some re-supply of wood and snow melt we headed out for the day.
I broke trail first and then Arty led the boot hike up from there.
Instead of down climbing we chose to re-route and ski some lightly defrosted corn under the mostly cloudy skies.
We skied down to the last saddle and traversed around the skirts of the peak we just hiked up.
By this time we could see our new re-established goal after a couple hours of route finding and rearranging.
We skinned another 45 minutes up a long ridge to a big corniced area.
Only person we saw was a solo snowmobiler getting after it a bowl over to our left.
Not the best blower quality turns but what a rush and kick in the pants.
It had been an almost 7 hour day of gettin after it on all kinds of conditions.
Seeing where we went towards making it happen and keeping it real with nothing but ashes and tracks.
(Remember it all shines in the fine details of quality extras and condiments.)
We recycled the last of the beer cans and the plastic vodka bottle after the dishes were done.
The next day was greeted by another amazing sleep in.
However, before pushing off that 6 2/3 mile downhill we had to go up for one more.
You gotta get up to get down.
We rested for a short bit looking out above the cabin and all of Breckenridge.
Cheers and hope everyone has gotten a few chances to lean back enjoy the ride this year.
