Eagle Crest and tour of Anchorage TR

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03-06-2005, 10:27 PM
ak_powder_monkey

Eagle Crest and tour of Anchorage TR

Juneau is an awesome place, everybody at the school was awesome, I had lunch with 4 professors and we talked about thus: Me getting heli flights if I'm good at digging snow pits, Redsox baseball, Backcountry skiing, Blowing up stuff and skiing in general. Juneau is so so small I kept having to remind myself that there are only 30,000 people there, only 50 miles of roads and HUGE Mountains everywhere.

My first day at Eagle Crest it was a typical Juneau day, raining hard but snowing halfway up the ptarmigan lift. The snow wasn't smooth or creamy but it was better then ice and I made farely fun turns down the firstt face called "The Most" all day then dropping down onto the west side where there were chutes and trees and cliff everywhare, I challenged myself and skied steep tree liens that I hadn't done anything like this year or possibly ever.

The second day shit got done. It was kinda sunny except for the half an hour of rain. They opened all the outer areas Pittman Ridge was a sweet hike that was steep and fairly deep faceshots were had untracked all day... It was nice down low too, sweet sweet corn. I started hitting jumps and dropping stuff and generally being very uncharicteristicly good at skiing. Finally I just just started hucking.. Oh and I landed my first spin ever! Granted it was only a 180 but I think I have the bug now, hopefully the corn season up here will be good and things will get done.

After the 2 days of skiing I did a 40K skate race and did really well for me 2:13 wich is a better 5 k split then any other race this year even the 1 k sprint... What a weekend

Oh I took some pics too
Driving to the Hill
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic35586.jpg
My line off pittman ridge
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic35587.jpg
Looking at west Bowl
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic35588.jpg
Another Random MOuntain
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic35589.jpg
and another
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic35590.jpg
shit for brains
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic35591.jpg
West bowl
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic35592.jpg
The veiw from Pittman ridge
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic35593.jpg
East Bowl BC
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic35594.jpg
Sunset in Juneau
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic35595.jpg
03-07-2005, 12:26 AM
Samwich

HOLY SHIT powder monkey. Great pics. I especially like your line of Pittman ridge and the picture of the the view from the ridge. Strong work, man.
03-07-2005, 12:32 AM
ak_powder_monkey

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Originally Posted by Samwich

HOLY SHIT powder monkey. Great pics. I especially like your line of Pittman ridge and the picture of the the view from the ridge. Strong work, man.

thanks, so wanna photoslut for me in a couple weeks? I'm hitting whats left of the snow at whistler for spring break...
03-07-2005, 07:31 AM
ScottG

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Originally Posted by ak_powder_monkey

shit for brains
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic35591.jpg

Hit that one for me.
It looks schweeeet.
03-07-2005, 01:38 PM
ak_powder_monkey

Quote:

Originally Posted by ScottG

Hit that one for me.
It looks schweeeet.

sounds good
03-07-2005, 01:46 PM
Meathelmet

You really are picking up the photography.
Nice pics.
03-07-2005, 02:02 PM
Lostinthetrees

Ohhhh. East Bowl.... looks real creamy. NIce photo. did ya make some turns there? hikeable terrain?

All those trees at tree-line look like they are in a hallucenigenic dream.

Pittman Ridge. Nice photo. Lots of atmosphere in that picture along with a beautiful view down and across that silver lake. Nicely done. You were in the right place at the right time. Landscape photography can be distilled into: Finding interesting places, getting a good vantage point, and understanding the way lighting "paints" them during various times of the day, the seasons, and in different weather conditions.

Keep it up!
03-07-2005, 05:55 PM
AfroMullet

Damn nice pics AKPM, you've got an eye for the camera. Some of your best yet.
03-07-2005, 06:12 PM
ak_powder_monkey

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lostinthetrees

Ohhhh. East Bowl.... looks real creamy. NIce photo. did ya make some turns there? hikeable terrain?

All those trees at tree-line look like they are in a hallucenigenic dream.

Pittman Ridge. Nice photo. Lots of atmosphere in that picture along with a beautiful view down and across that silver lake. Nicely done. You were in the right place at the right time. Landscape photography can be distilled into: Finding interesting places, getting a good vantage point, and understanding the way lighting "paints" them during various times of the day, the seasons, and in different weather conditions.

Keep it up!

Yes I hit that east bowl BC once with a guy on spatulas, the second pair I've seen in person and it was sweet, not deep but it was steep enough that I was playing with a ton of slough wich is way fun

and thats not a lake, thats the ocean lakes up here freeze
03-07-2005, 06:58 PM
Rusty Nails

Facking awesome. As always, good stoke AKPM!
03-08-2005, 09:55 PM
TOLOCOMan

Nice job on that skate race! You were moving. Thought you said you were slow on xc. 2:13 for 40km is pretty fast in my books.
03-09-2005, 12:36 AM
ak_powder_monkey

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Originally Posted by TOLOCOMan

Nice job on that skate race! You were moving. Thought you said you were slow on xc. 2:13 for 40km is pretty fast in my books.

I only got 52nd though :cussing: and had a shitty last 5k but thanks, it was fun, and thats what counts right?