Lone Peak

Ski Will and I made the trek up Bells canyon to ski the Northeast face of Lone Peak. Unfortunately we were not aware that there were two chutes down the middle of the face and will be forced to return to ski the other. We skied the climber's left chute (you can just make out the tracks on the apron in the photo), but still need to return to ski the one to climbers right. To make matters worse, there are several other very nice chutes further North along the ridge as well that also warrant a return trip.
Someone snapped a photo from Coalpit of the face with our tracks and posted it on telemarktips, so I stole it to add to the blog. The track from our ascent is visible to the far left.

Defense Onsighted

I stayed up till 3:30 in the morning the night before, getting my talk aced. I bought a nice bakery spread from Les Madeline's and some coffee for the committee. Got my (one) suit on and drilled away at my talk for an hour, dispatched some questions from the committee, then got my hand shook and called "Dr. Will."



I thought the whole thing would be somewhat anti-climactic, but I actually really enjoyed it.