AtomicSkier

Looks great boys!

Trash is out! I haven't had a ton of time to explore yet. Friday will be a longer ski day for me I think, so I'll start exploring more. I've just been enjoying the soft-ish off trail snow, and same fast groomers.

Silverton. I skied amazing stuff there...so jaded now 😂

yathatsright ... i'm good for awhile. if i ski sunny CB groomers for the next 3 weeks I'll be happy.

Daily update .... more lunch time skiing. Pretty gray/flat light today, so it was 3 and done for me today. Was nice to get out, make a few turns, and enjoy the fresh air. Rumor is that @mute1080 is going to get his butt to the butte.

@GSSucks's jorts are worth their own cover.

no, it's empty.

lot steeper than whatever meadow you're skiing on any time soon 😂

Nice day for some lunch turns. Could get used to this 🥰

lol just watched your stupid video @saltyant. i'm glad i can be your idol, both in biking and skiing.

Skied for a few hours this morning at Crested Butte. Got in line around 8:45am, and was surprised when they started loading around 8:50am. I was at the top for after my second lift ride by 9:15am 😁 Goal today was to just cruise around, get the lay of the land, and get familiar with navigation. Rode most of the lifts seeing where the good terrain and good groomers are. Few observations: 1) I think I'll do my daily hour-ish of skiing at noon to get full light on the mountain. My dark lens let me a little blind at some spots first thing 😎 2) The views are spectacular 3) There are some serious cheese grater rocks out there 😳

I love skiing pow. What can I say?

😂 BTW - I said “milk that”.

Hike to. I made a few pow turns this AM before setting off for Montrose airport with @NMSKI. Was about 4” at the elevation I made it to. Some nasty weather enroute, but made it in 1h 45m. I was planning on running in Montrose but the weather was such shit. Weather looked better in CB so figured I’d run there. As soon as I left Montrose enroute to CB, the weather really improved. Sunny skies prevailed for most of the drive. Now at @Barb’s place in CB for the next few weeks.

Awesome boys! @GSSucks @mbike-ski ... Way to get after it. Wish I could’ve joined you!

Get your eyes checked.

What a great start to the Road Trip. It’s been a fun week with @skiincy @Barb @Johnny Law @NMSKI so far. My first Tride day was a perfect blue bird day. The boys first day at Telluride was an unexpected 10” diamond dust powder day. Silverton was fucking boner doner tits mcgee. @NMSKI said he even saw titty sparkles. I plan on skiing a few pow runs tomorrow AM before heading to the airport with @NMSKI, going for a run in Montrose, and then heading to @Barb’s place in Crested Butte. I’ll be there for the next 3+ weeks. I’m hoping to see @mute1080 at some point. My buddy Tom is also flying out for a few days. After that, Aspen most likely. And to finish this off, it wasn’t perfect powder skiing at Silverton. On the lower part of the heli drop, a tree ripped my pole right out of my hand. I wasn’t pleased.

Where was @GrilledSteezeSandwich? Why no report?

Sorry @GrilledSteezeSandwich ... yesterday was anti-climatic compared to the day prior. We shall see what today brings. Last day for the boys!

Some additional shots from the heli to/from the airport. “Standard Brief” Town view & runs down into town as we departed the airport Circling approach into Silverton Town of Telluride The accommodations Heavy iron at TEX

They're amazing. Best reports ever. However, I do sense a small bit of FOMO while @toast21602 skis the power line, and while we're out skiing Colorado. You'll get your turn ... just relax. As for action shots yesterday ... surely you can understand that there was only one person on a slope at a time. No opportunity for anyone to stop to get shots of anyone else skiing by.

Any time @Barb. I bet @theprogram4 would never do anything like that 😁

Yes.

Not as many woo hoos in this video, but lots of excitement, swearing, and a few gems 😁 Enjoy. The second half of the one run where I’m not skiing as much pow as you think I should is because our guide asked us to figure 8 his line to help correct some bad lines from a previous group. I also fucked up recording the 3rd run.

Stacked turns is part o their avalanche mitigation program, as well as preserving it for others. It didn't really matter, there was so much pow to be had. There was only one time, on the second half of one of the runs, where our guide asked us to figure8 his tracks. As for the report ... we arrived at the Telluride airport at 7:35am to meet our chopper at 7:45am. As were pulling into the parking lot it flew overhead and set down on the ramp. Quick boot up, we walked into the FBO with skis on our shoulder, met up with the pilots, and we were skids up in a few minutes after a quick safety briefing. Thanks to @skiincy for some of those sweet airport shots! It was a quick 6 minute flight over the San Juans to Silverton, before we did a few spirals down into the valley that Silverton sits in. We checked in, got our tickets, and got grouped up with a fun group of guys around our age, mostly from CO, who had some "let's see if these PA guys can hang" comments that quickly faded after we left them in the dust as they were huffing and puffing on the first hike. Our first run was a heli drop, so all 8 of us piled in the Bell 206 chopper that had brought us to Silverton only an hour previously. Landed on top of a peak, kept our heads down, and the bird lifted back off for us to enjoy a perfectly sunny and calm bluebird day. Our guide briefed us on the run, and turned us loose one at a time. After a couple thousand feed of pow turns, we ended up back on a cat track that takes us back to the bus, which takes us back to the base area. We then headed up the lift and started a 40 minutes hike up the ridge to some *amazing* turns. A quick drop in, and some traversing across some rocks, and we were ripping another few thousand feet of even deeper snow than the heli provided. Again, to the cat track at the bottom, to the bus, and back to the lift. Third run was a quick 5 minute hike at the start, and a 5 minute hike at the bottom to get back to the cat track. Again, a few thousand feet of untracked pow. It was starting to get repetitive Fourth run was about a 20 minute hike below a cliff band to more untracked. At this point, we were cooked, skied to the gully to the road, picked up a bus, and headed back to the base area where our chopper was waiting for us to takes us back to Telluride. All in all, an amazing day, amazing skiing, with amazing friends. It wasn't the deepest snow I've ever skied, but it was the steepest, smoothest, longest I have. It was 100/10. The weather couldn't have been better, either.