Opening Day at The Remarkables

This morning we were lying in bed trying to decide whether or not we could be bothered with the icy conditions and long queues usually associated with opening morning. We'd seen on the website that all the lifts were due to open on the first day, which is quite unusual, so after some umming and ahhing we decided to haul ourselves out of bed and head up to catch up with our friends.

Well, it turned out to be a good idea. The snow was soft, the queues were non existent and we were once more up above the inversion layer - basically a bluebird day.

We hit some untracked snow on our first run off the lift (under Alta, Jen!) and decided pretty quickly that we should head further afield and do some hiking to get more of the fresh stuff. Watching the long "ant trail" of people heading across to "the chutes" we decided to go in the other direction, for our tried and true powder stash up the back of Sugar Bowl.

First Video: Greg getting fresh tracks

We spent the next 2 hours hiking and re-hiking all our various little spots we came to know last year and had loads of fun. Hopefully the videos will all download for you - if anyone (eg on dialup) has any problems let us know and we'll send you a CD.

2nd Video: Andrea getting some almost-fresh tracks (going over Greg's tracks from the previous video)