Originally Posted by
Snow Spirit
Our intreped hero posted a TR on epic ski from his trip up the Ravine LAST season:
"The snow was very granular, corn like in quality. Stepping into it was like quick sand, perfect avalanche snow. After about 40 minutes of carefully working my way up, I felt a light movement under my feet. I slowly moved my way over to a small bush that was poking out of the ground. After securing myself on the bush, I took my skis off my pack with my boots already clicked into the bindings. Boots already in the skis, can't be too hard to get in, right? WRONG. Lace up liners! Complete pain in the ass to get into, even moreso with the shells already clicked in. I struggled a good 10 or so minutes until I finally got them on. Game time. With my line already planned out in the event of an avalanche, I took off. And with me came more than a foot of snow down the gully. I could hear it coming down behind me, and I took the escape route on the skier's left of the gully. I took a slight tumble while turning off into the escape route zone, and ended up taking a 100ft slide into the bush. Normally wouldn't be an issue, but being in a t-shirt, it was a little painful. I guess I'd have some cool injuries to show off to my friends back down at school.
The "Seven" gully was in the same shape, so I decided to give that a go as well. Basically the same result, and I decided to throw on a sweatshirt and gloves as a precaution.
I don't have a go-pro, so I had to make due with putting my phone between my stomach and waist band on my bag."