Anacortes is a wonderful place, for sure, but it's geographic placement adds quite a bit of time to the drive to the mountains during ski season.
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I normally try to stay away from glaciers, but when desperate and there's no other snow anywhere near, glacier full of race courses will do too. On the end it was perfect bluebird day on nice hard snow to get best out of my GS skis, and for cherry on top, I managed to get some 8 or 9 GS runs with our Europa cup team. It certainly helps to have some extra fun, if you know right people 
What glacier is it?I normally try to stay away from glaciers, but when desperate and there's no other snow anywhere near, glacier full of race courses will do too. On the end it was perfect bluebird day on nice hard snow to get best out of my GS skis, and for cherry on top, I managed to get some 8 or 9 GS runs with our Europa cup team. It certainly helps to have some extra fun, if you know right people
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Driving up through Vermont today, this was just a bit south of Burlington. The defined snow line on the mountains was a pretty awesome visual...
Molltal glacier in Austria, I could say my "home" glacier, even if I'm living across the border, but it's just 1h drive away so almost like in my backyard
This is a shot of Liz on her way to the summit of Jimmy Junior in the Bow Lake area (approximately 30 minutes north of Lake Louise). The Wapta Icefield forms the backdrop.
Shot from yesterday afternoon.
Sun melted rimed snow sculpture with icicles against blue sky near top of of Comet Trail at Heavenly December 8, 2018.
Killington, 14DEC2018. Skiing with @PinnacleJim
BTW, as I told Jim when we looked upon this view, for some reason I felt like I was in Japan.
BTW, as I told Jim when we looked upon this view, for some reason I felt like I was in Japan.
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Many of the photos I've seen of Japan show frost and snow-encrusted trees, and that moody atmospheric fog, so yeah!
Cirrusly lenticular...
I want to post here again, but all I have that are recent are bluebird day photos. 
(l to r) Guyot, Baldy, Boreas and way in the background, Pikes Peak which is about 70 miles away as the crow flies.
(l to r) Guyot, Baldy, Boreas and way in the background, Pikes Peak which is about 70 miles away as the crow flies.
You mean like this?
https://www.skimag.com/editors-choice/rusutsu-taking-flight
Just opened the November issue tonight.
After spending whole bunch of days on icy tracks and race skis, and few days on xc skis, it was time to get my new Rossi Seek7 for little test drive About 6 hours of up and down in mountains around Flachau, Austria, at -11c and pretty bad wind was pretty good start in back country skiing season. Not to mention skis with Look ST bindings (basically Dynafit Speedturn) feel super light compared to my "normal setup" of Rossi Super7 and Marker Duke. And in "only" some 40cm fresh pow they actually ski surprisingly good.
After first getting to top of mountain on right side of photo, there was another climb to last mountain top of the day, followed by perfect 15-20min skiing in super light knee deep powder down to car.
Good thing with ski touring around here is, that most of skiers follow first tracks like sheep, so even week after last snowfall, you can ski perfect untouched powder if you steer just 20m away.
And yeah it was pretty windy and at -11c just a bit too cold for what I'm currently used to, but it was super fun
About 6 hours of up and down in mountains around Flachau, Austria, at -11c and pretty bad wind was pretty good start in back country skiing season. Not to mention skis with Look ST bindings (basically Dynafit Speedturn) feel super light compared to my "normal setup" of Rossi Super7 and Marker Duke. And in "only" some 40cm fresh pow they actually ski surprisingly good.After first getting to top of mountain on right side of photo, there was another climb to last mountain top of the day, followed by perfect 15-20min skiing in super light knee deep powder down to car.
Good thing with ski touring around here is, that most of skiers follow first tracks like sheep, so even week after last snowfall, you can ski perfect untouched powder if you steer just 20m away.
And yeah it was pretty windy and at -11c just a bit too cold for what I'm currently used to, but it was super fun
Another EBay morning...
