TR for my Chocolate Chip Cookie

**Mudfoot** · 05-12-2007, 10:06 AM

Did the Ophir to Telluide ski yesterday. After a 3,000 boot climb out of Ophir we crested the ridge at 12,850 ft. between San Joaquin Peak and K12. It had snowed 18” five days earlier and then gotten real warm with little wind. The top of the entire 2-mile wide Bear Creek Basin had frozen perfectly smooth with not a track in it. We sat down to have a snack before climbing the last few hundred vert to the peak and a face with an aspect that was warming in the sun. I set my cellophane wrapped big chocolate chip cookie down on the snow and it immediate took off sliding down the fall line before I could grab it. I watched it accelerate and rip down over several rollers and finally out of sight. After climbing the peak and skiing some velvety corn I came upon my cookie at the bottom of the basin. It had smoothly straight lined about 1,000 vert without flipping or breaking. As I finally enjoyed my snack I couldn’t help thinking that my cookie was getting better action than most of my friends who have hung up their boards for the season.

**IridePow** · 05-12-2007, 10:16 AM

What, no action shots of that chocolate cookie slide?!

**KillingCokes** · 05-12-2007, 10:49 AM

dude this thread is useless without a naked chick pulling cookies out of the oven and feeding them to me.

**Mudfoot** · 05-12-2007, 11:04 AM

My buddy did have a camera. Hope to post a shot of the cookie's line in day or two.

**Mudfoot** · 05-25-2007, 01:06 PM

Here are a few pictures from our Ophir to Telluride trip. The first one is 60 yr. old Birthday Boy at the top of our kickstep climb. That's me in the gay pink hat looking over towards Ophir Pass (which is now plowed to the top from the other side for easy 4WD access skiing).

In the background of Birthday Boy cresting the ridge is Waterfall Canyon and some of the areas ski accessed from Ophir, which is also Telluride Helitrax terrain. The last pic is the line taken by my cookie (Bear Creek Drainage with back of ski area on lower left of canyon). Telluride is straight down at the bottom and the Sneffels Range is in the background. Never saw another person in the valley all day.

We started the trip eating bear stew from a bear Birthday Boy had shot, then skied Bear Creek Drainage and discovered a bear den with fresh tracks at the bottom when we got lost looking for the right exit chute.

They've had another foot of snow up there this week and now warm temps again, so there could be more San Juan sweet on the menu for this weekend.

**Tap** · 05-25-2007, 01:21 PM

awesome! I did that descent over 10 years ago and it was sweet!

is there a guy named Carlos (Brian Carlson) still living in T-Ride?

**Mudfoot** · 05-25-2007, 01:30 PM

Originally Posted by Tap

is there a guy named Carlos (Brian Carlson) still living in T-Ride?

Don't know about Carlos. I don't live in T-ride so I don't spend enough time there to know many of the locals.

Nice pics of the K12 chute (?) and the lower canyon! I first skied it 10 years ago with Birthday Boy on his 50th, and this is his first time back up there since.