Hooky Dawn Patroll TR

[ak_powder_monkey]

As I drove to school I was thinking "am I really gonna do this?" I park the car and walk into school bookless and bagless. I found my friend who asked "what do you need a beacon for?"
"20 inch rule," I grin and add, "I'll be in hatchers incase you have to get a body recovery search going"
I walk strait out the door and don't look back. Parking at Nicholai's I dial a number "CHS Attendence"
"Hi this is mike please excuse my son patrick from school today."
"Alright its taken care of." Calling in sick for school is easy when you sound like your dad on the phone. I help Nicholai load his stuff in my car and we drive through the dark. After a quick stop at McDodonalds we are on our way up the narrow road to the A frame. We test our beacons I put on snow shoes Nicholai skins and we begin.

An hour later we were headed up our target. A groovy looking peak that looked like we could bag. Continueous probes and jumping on the snowpack shown it to be very stable. We zig and zag busting out a skin track untill its to steep to skin at all. We begin the post hole slogging to a ridge that was nothing but a cliff in the summer we climb. We try a route that looked fast and it turns out it had lots of exposure so we go back to swimming. We climb to a ridge high above the cliff and decide this is where we'd ski from.

A few pictures were taken, hands were shook with "Nice knowing you man" (we had figured we were gonna die since we parked), and bindings were clicked. I dropped in first. A ski cut confirmed my therory on the stability of the pack and revealed that there would be sluff to controll this run. I was scared shitless, this was steeper then anything I'd ever skied before, and I'd never skied anything like this in deep snow. Finally after composing myself I turn slowly as I can and went at least 100 verticle feet. Another turn and wait watch my sluff go. then I open up and start going fast. Faceshots, sluff speed, floating, perfect. I get out of the way of potential Avelanches and turn to watch Nicholai, and I let out a yell having nailed the line. A mighty scream echoed through the mountains, not one of fear, and not one of pain, but of glory and adrenilin. Nicholai dropped in turned then fell, Got back up fell again. He fell at least 3 more times before reaching me, but thats what you get for telemarking .

More to come

[ak_powder_monkey]

Part 2.

I was tired so we stopped and built a jump which we Gaped it up off of for a while. Then we inspected the snowpack up close. 9 feet deep, and no layers, perfectly bonded snow for 6 feet. Quickly we ascended the first peak from a different angle. I spotted what I wanted, now reassured from our snowpack analisis, a chute 10 feet wide and about 35° with a steep entrance. "3,2,1 Dropping, the lyrics of dramamine run through my head. I imagine seth hucking a 100 footer and go, then stop let sluff run. I ski short quick turns half out of control kinda back seat. It is deeper then before face shots, floating overr the shoulder, a smile graces my lips as I straitline to the side and turn to watch nicholai, who does better then he did on his last run. We straitline back to the parking lot and stuggle over the berm. And drive away. To our amazement we see a closed sighn blocking the road, and keeping the people away. A few ptarmigan fly in front of us and the sun begins to set. All and all epic.

Photos to come shortly

[ak_powder_monkey]

A few from last week driving down from alpenglow


sunrise at hatchers



Heading up

[ak_powder_monkey]

Nicholai spots it

The Hard Part

Sunrise Alpenglow


Sponser us Karhu!

Me on top


Me Skiing the first line

[ak_powder_monkey]

Nicholai skiing it

Our Line (the second line is that chute lookers left in the photo)

Me skiing the second line







Nicholai on the second line

[bad_roo]

Nice to see you stepping up to some gnarlier terrain. That looked like a lot of fun.

[Yeti]

I was tired so we stopped and built a jump which we Gaped it up off of for a while.

I'm not usually one to rag on AKPM, but I bet you guys Gaped it up hard. Nice TR -- where's that on the map?

[ak_powder_monkey]

so I put a ton of time into this and just 2 replys, come on guys what do you think of the photos?

[Duker]

so I put a ton of time into this and just 2 replys, come on guys what do you think of the photos?

either you need a new scanner or you are the worst photog ever.

[ak_powder_monkey]

either you need a new scanner or you are the worst photog ever.

probably the former

[Lone Star]

Nice, nice shot, AKPM.

[gramps]

Looks like a nice morning.

[johnny1496]

I can vouch for the pics, they are incredible in hard copy. Other than that, I have to agree that this is a serious step up for our boy AKPM. Good TR, awesome terrain. I can't believe you bagged it hiking up...::gasping for air::

Johnny

[ak_powder_monkey]

I can vouch for the pics, they are incredible in hard copy. Other than that, I have to agree that this is a serious step up for our boy AKPM. Good TR, awesome terrain. I can't believe you bagged it hiking up...::gasping for air::

Johnny

and you had to get that damn wart removed from your hand and didn't come with, you need a girlfriend to help you man :P

[G]

so I put a ton of time into this and just 2 replys, come on guys what do you think of the photos?

That's a pretty good report. Worthy of a bump. Congratulations on a great day. Keep up the good work. You might see more appreciation for your essays if you could run them through a fucking spellchecker before posting.

You also need to be much more selective as to which photos you choose to post. I only saw about four or five keepers in that whole collection.


I bet the day you missed school, They were going to teach you all how to spell the word "patrol"

Continueous probes and jumping on the snowpack shown it to be very stable.

A ski cut confirmed my therory on the stability of the pack

This shows a frighteningly dangerous level of ignorance.

[Droopy]

very nice, so what is this like twice in one week that you have skiped school to ski??

[bad_roo]

When you summitted did you show Nicholai the old Bjorn Super Prawn?

[powderwhore]

the sunrise shots are good!

[Tap]

it's Patrol, not Patroll, you tosser.

[edg]

it's Patrol, not Patroll, you tosser.

Extra points for quintessential British phrase!

Nice trip and an all that, but dunno if I'd play hooky for it, in your position...

edg

[Rusty Nails]

Weekday fresh pow at Hatcher Pass? Don't let some Brit sway ya, it's worth playing hooky EVERY time.

Actually I ALWAYS preferred Turnagain to Hatcher Pass. More selection and always three times as deep.

[ak_powder_monkey]

well its skip school or skip a ski race and a free (hopefully powder) day at alp? I say skip school

[Nohillsnearby]

so I put a ton of time into this and just 2 replys, come on guys what do you think of the photos?

Rule of thirds. Also, A picture is worth a thousand words and the difference between a mediocre photographer and a great one is a few thousand pictures. In other words, check your focus, and edit down the number of pictures you post.

You might want to check out and critique for yourself the other pictures posted on the board.

[TheDingleberry]

Look Honey! AKPM is on his fourth lesson and is almost linking turns!!!:

[Dr. Gaper]

Nice sunrise shots.

For some reason I only see a few of the pictures, the others are X's.