January has been a rough month for California skiing. There has been essentially no snow from New Year's day until January 30th, when a storm finally snuck into the region behind the back of the persistent ridge off the West Coast. I'll leave it to the weather bloggers to discuss why it has been so dry and why it will continue for at least the next 10 days. We've been making the best of the Spring-like conditions: crusing the groomers, the park, semi-soft/semi-ice bumps, and hiking around a bit.
Friday and Saturday (1/21 and 1/22) were nice and warm. Saturday we left Kirkwood early and Owen, Jen and I hiked above Caples Lake to have lunch and build a little jump to play around on.
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| Saturday 1/22: Jump above Caples Lake |
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| Troy |
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| Crashing |
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| Troy 3 |
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| Bringing back the '90s |
Sunday was less warm, and nothing ever really softened. It did remind me of ice-sliding on the East Coast though, so that was nostalgic.
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| Sunday 1/23: Cold and icy at Kirkwood. |
The next weekend Owen and I headed back up for more spring skiing, this time with a new wide-angle camera:
We headed back to Caples Lake, this time being a little more ambitious in our jump construction:
It was perhaps a little bit too big for our jumping skill set, but we made the best of it, and had a really nice sunset...
Finally, I had a good time experimenting with the timelapse features of the new camera. Click the "vimeo" link to watch in HD.
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