Spark Notes:
Saturday: Trimmer Peak, somewhere between 7 and 8 miles and about 4k feet
Sunday: Heavenly, trees, rocks, and parks
A week after the only real dumping of the '11-12 season in Tahoe, and you could barely tell that it had snowed. Eric was feeling a bit under the weather, so we got a bit of a late start on Saturday morning. Nonetheless, we were at the trailhead by 9:30 or so and walking our way in. Yup, skis on our backs. In March. (After about a half a mile, we were able to start skiing.)
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| Route Map |
Eric and I weren't really on the same page all day. That'll happen when energy, stoke, and health levels aren't lining up. I had my eyes on
Freel Peak, and for sure that's on the tick list for next season (take a look off the back of Heavenly and you'll see the inviting upper snowfield and couloirs). After Eric called a lunchtime nap, we changed tack and climbed Trimmer Peak instead. We took a few turns down junk snow on the east side of trimmer, then skinned back up and headed down the north face. According to the book, the parallel avalanche slides down the face are known as "The Elevens." We figured it would make more sense to call them "the ones" or "the eleven" but maybe we read the book wrong. Not important anyway.
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| Elevens (Trimmer Peak, North Face) |
The skiing was mediocre, and it was a bit of a slog, but the day was more about getting out than shredding turns, and that was just fine. I'm looking forward to getting back to Freel next year. Other highlights of the weekend including running into a high school friend on a lift at Heavenly, getting into the terrain park for a bit, and seeing possibly the coolest rainbow I've ever seen.
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| Tahoe from Trimmer |
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| Booting up |
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| No leprechauns in sight. |
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