AK LIVES UP TO THE HYPE!!!!!! Ski movie linesare not just getting watched on TV but are getting shredded by the Seawolfs. I have never not skied on thanksgiving so i was itching to go anywhere to ski. I had heard roomers that Turnagain Pass had some good snow. We had a fresh avi report report for the next morning saying everything was in the low with human hazards being the main concern. |
I was able to rally Miranda, Sean, and Bella to get up at 5 and become a weekend warrior. We were able to leave Anchorage by 6 and were at the trailhead at 7:30. We geared up and headed out from the Tincan pull off around 8. It was still pitch black and very foggy. I was very excited to be in a new place bushwhacking up a mountain. For the first 30 minutes we had to kick steps up very difficult terrain. However we were able to get threw the gullies, rivers, marshes, and steep glades. Finally we reached decent snow and we could put the skins on. 30 more minutes in the trees put use right above tree line in time to watch an amazing sunrise. As soon as we got here he found out this was the main spot to ski on the pass, tracks everywhere! This is not colorado snow, lines down steep big bulls that would have easily slid if skied in colorado. Also there where so many tracks i couldn't count how many people had skied up there. Sure enough as soon as we saw all the tracks we heard people hooting and hollering coming up behind us. By the time we had gotten to Tincan proper there was easily 20 people above tree line. 6 inches of fresh, solid snow, two and half hour hike to the top, this is the spot to be! After enjoying a thanksgiving brew and the girls getting the mountain babe shot we geared up and dropped onto the west faces. UNREAL SNOW, 40 degree slope, boot top powder, on a solid bass for 1,000 vertical. After that we had a fun game of fallow the leader down the gladded trees all the way back to the car. We were back at the car at 11:30 and headed back to Anchorage to cook are 23 pound Turkey. All in all alaska backcountry is so much crazier then colorado, it is going to be an EPIC AREA FOR DA BUCKY UP HERE!