Willow, February 17

My Silhouette on a Tree Silouette





I loved today's surprise tour. I was suppose to go night skiing at Brighton with the ski club but the ski lift ended up being closed so Chris and I went ski touring instead- yeah! We parked at the Solitude parking lot and walked across the street up the road, past cabins that make you jealous and then put our skies on. We hiked through tall, spiraling aspen trees up a ridge to the top of a beautiful long, powdery slope. The area is called Willow. It had different slope angles, one was a little nerve racking because of it's steepness- but so fun. We hiked from 4:30 to 6:45. I loved being at the top of a ridge at sunset. The Pfieferhorn, Twin Peaks and the whole ridge line was grand with the orange sunset. I felt very grateful and stoked to be at the top of a mountain with my skis, peeling the skins off of them, getting ready to ski down. We didn't get many skiing photographs because it was kind of dark when we skied down and ended with a snowplow out passing through the dark forest.