Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Trifecta w/ Rob Anthony and Tommy Beckering






This morning Rob called and had a few plans.....Maggie's, Tallac, or a Trifecta (Andersen, Judah, Trestle).  Once Tommy was in the Trifecta was served up cold and fresh.  We rolled out the Lincoln chair on some of the best groomers possible....cold and smooth as a babies butt.  We almost did another "warm up" lap on the groomers then quickly decided to go OB.  We rolled out and checked out the Burbolator shoulder before continuing on to General Principle (GP).  Tommy set up a shot and Rob dropped in.  He popped out the bottom hooting and hollering with joy.  I dropped in and got beautiful pow turns into the bottleneck of the chute then laid a sweet slash off the R wall before pointing it out the bottom.  We radioed up to Tom to do the "sneaker chute," off to the lookers R of GP.  He obliged and got arguably the sickest line in that zone.  And I got some sweet pics of it!!  We skinned right back up across the bottom on Andersen and back on top.  This time Rob dropped in on one of the faces to riders L of the Burb face.  He negotiated some less than ideal snow and a big wind lip before getting into the sweet sweet powder.  I dropped into the Burb shoulder but was quickly sliding on my butt after attempting a turn on the first rollover.  I quickly changed plans and dropped into the Burb where there was ample powder to slash up.  Nice run.  Then Tommy nailed the WART!!  I've only seen Jeremy Jones do that line this year!!  I got a nice sequence of him charging the line.  We skinned up to Roller Pass, then onto Lunch Rock and the top of Judah.  We decided to do the other Judah Bowl since the usual run got chowed up by us and some others the day before.  It was a sweet run and I got some good turns and a pointer at the bottom.  Then we boot packed over to Trestle Peak where we met up w/ Cory and his dog.  We all dropped in a little more hastily since Tommy had to work.  It was amazing up top and we all got nice turns and some airs.  We dropped all the way down and to the L where we skirted the trestle before hitting up the Boneyard.  That's where Rob's day took a turn for the worse.  He went off a drop and had his new ski eject on him.  He searched for a while to no avail.  I got his truck and brought it back down while he searched more...again to no avail.  He's ready to get back out there tomorrow and find it!!  What a few days it has been!!  My body is worked over!!  If it snows a little bit on Wed night we might hit the Violet Couloir at the Buttes on Thursday.  Stay tuned!!  
Pic descriptions:  1. Tommy on The Wart  2. Rob riding L of the Burb  3. Tommy skinning below the monster cornice!!  4&5- Tommy getting the Sneaker Chute next to General Principle (our tracks).  

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