Report from April 16, 2023

On Sunday, we were supposed to receive new clients, but our clients from last week were still hungry…

The all extended their trip a week.

Sunday was cloudy then sunny, we got out there around mid-day.

I picked out an aggressive-looking run off the Deserted Glacier from the heli I’d never skied before.

After some snow checks, I dropped in.

The snow was svelt.

The sluff was fast.

I let gravity pull me through the chute, blasted through the sluff piles at the bottom, and into the fresh snow in the apron.

The big speed check in the apron felt electric.

The crew happily shredded down without incident, and we grooved down the rolling lowers to the pickup zone.

We skied two more runs in a zone called Vitos’ and headed home.

Sun in the forecast…

ALASKA 2023 REPORTS

• 4/15/23: Valdez, AK Report: Ominous Steep Powder in the Valley of the Tusk
• 4/13/23: Valdez, AK, Report: Deep, Spectacular Powder Snow
• 4/8/23: Valdez, AK Report: Popping A Wheelie on Long Powder Spines in Sun & Shade
• 4/7/23: Valdez, AK Report: Knee Deep Blower Powder
• 4/5/23: Valdez, AK Report: Steep Skiing & Sluff In Our 2014 Shoup Glacier Camp Zone
• 4/3/23: Valdez, AK Report: “Alaskan Velvet” in Big Terrain With 3 World Cup Skiers
• 4/2/23: Valdez, AK Report: Skiing Above Lake Tahoe, I Mean, Valdez Harbor With 3 World Cup Ski Racers
• 3/28/23: Valdez, AK Report: Steep Skiing & Spread Eagles During a Secret Event
• 3/27/23: Valdez, AK Report: Skiing in Some of the Most Raw, Gorgeous Terrain on Earth – The Schwan Glacier
• 3/26/23: Valdez, AK, Report: Big Lines in the Shade + Happy Powder in the Sun Off the Pencil Glacier

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