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03-17-2008, 06:23 PM #1
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Full Tordrillo TR 3/9-3/15 Lots of pixs
I headed up to the Todrillo Mtn Lodge last Friday evening. The lodge holds 12, we had the whole lodge to our party of 8. Private heli with a great crew. We stopped up at Alyeska for some insanely wet snow. 75 inches in the previous 4 days. After some control work they opened up the mtn. No tram lines and really not that many people. A great day. We finished up the day and went down to Anchorage and flew out the next day, Sunday.
We were greeted by the gray bird weather. The previous group had about 5 drops all week
J Love had brought up boxing gloves and head gear. Not a very good thing for him.
The set up
Harms with the knock down
J Love with the recovery.
The Alaskan Range had received over 2 meters in the last week and over 200 inches in the last three weeks. This is the view from the second floor window.
As the skies started to clear the bombs were assembled and put into the heli.
They dropped most of these on an area we were planning on skiing. Skies cleared but by the time we shuttled out it went milky. We skied one run in the flatest light I had seen in a while.
Day 2
We awoke to more gray and looked like we were going to be down for a while. We skate skied out to our firing range where we took turns hammering targets with the Barret .50 cal.
SDP taking aim.
One and a half days down and things were looking grim. We resorted to boat rides on the frozen lake, tied to the back of the snowmobile going full throttle.
The next day it was on.
This was already posted but this was my first run on our first full day. Nobis let me have at it.
Second drop, More of the same blower.
The rest of the day was more of the same
Denson in deep
J Love threading the needle
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03-17-2008, 06:24 PM #2
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Part 2
Nobis checking things out
The last run of the day we landed on top of this cooly, fully powered up landing, teeter tottering on the knife edge
Look closely up top, you can see us peeking in.
The view from the top
The cooly from the bottom
Day three
The surface hoar
More of the same, Totally clear
Nobis cleaning the run
Day 4
We sessioned this area all day. Tons of fins.
Steep Camp
Dyre dropping into one of the steepest runs of the trip
The 1st load landed and skied this run below. We went to the lookers right, behind that huge rock wall (the above photos are from that drop in). We were spotting them from the heli since you could not see from the top. They spotted us from below.
Day 5
More hoar
The white room
Pretty sick trip. . This was truly a dream trip with the best combination of snow, stability, viz and pitch. We could not have had it any better. A huge shout out to AC who made this trip possible
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03-17-2008, 06:28 PM #3
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Dude, quit lying. We all know that trip sucked.
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03-17-2008, 06:30 PM #4
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wow. nicely done.
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03-17-2008, 06:37 PM #5
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wow heli skiing looks lame as hell
seriously wow though
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03-17-2008, 06:44 PM #6
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So it was a pretty good week yeah?
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03-17-2008, 06:47 PM #7
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Feel free to never include a shot like that first ever again
Beautiful ski shots.
Incredible.Last edited by stihletto; 03-17-2008 at 06:56 PM.
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Powder snow skiing is not fun. It’s life, fully lived, life lived in a blaze of reality. What we experience in powder is the original human self, which lies deeply inside each of us, still undamaged in spite of what our present culture tries to do to us. Once experienced, this kind of living is recognized as the only way to live–fully aware of the earth and the sky and the gods and you, the mortal, playing among them. Dolores LaChapelle
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03-17-2008, 06:53 PM #8
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WOW......
That steep run looks insane
Thanks for the stoke
I leave for Cordova (PNH) on friday
You've got me more amped up than I already was
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03-17-2008, 07:06 PM #9
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Wow..that did not suck
“I mean god damn, who could believe that shit.” Greg Noll, Riding Giants
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03-17-2008, 07:08 PM #10
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YES!!!!!!!
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03-17-2008, 07:09 PM #11
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thanks for all those pics SDP, sick trip indeed. Looks like you guys were taken to the goodies
More fucked up than a cricket in a hubcap
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03-17-2008, 07:29 PM #12
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dude, you're one lucky fucker, well played.
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03-17-2008, 07:30 PM #13
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Thats awesome. Sick trip, glad you enjoyed.
I belong to a cult that believes in wrecking leather jackets, dying themselves purple and demolishing 40 beer.
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03-17-2008, 07:30 PM #14
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Nice work man. Skiing with Nobis, playing with a 50 cal, endless pow FKNA
Wait, What?
Friends of Berthoud Pass
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03-17-2008, 07:52 PM #15
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good God!
I have mastered all major sporting activities to a high degree of mediocrity.
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03-17-2008, 08:01 PM #16
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sick trip.
Hamme one dem beers
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03-17-2008, 08:04 PM #17
oo arr
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I'll collect my jaw on the way out
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03-17-2008, 08:13 PM #18
is a fine box of wine...
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wow.just wow.
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03-17-2008, 08:19 PM #19
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Whatever they charge is worth it.
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03-17-2008, 08:21 PM #20
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Someone w/photosho might be able to piece together that first line...that would be sick.
Nice timing and even nicer shots
"The idea wasnt for me, that I would be the only one that would ever do this. My idea was that everybody should be doing this. At the time nobody was, but this was something thats too much fun to pass up." -Briggs
More stoke, less shit.
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03-17-2008, 08:22 PM #21
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somewhere in your life you made totally the right decision.
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03-17-2008, 08:25 PM #22
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You guys are ridiculously lazy, and I love it.
Hopefully CPG has some photog needs this lodge season.
This past week in the Chugach has also been my best ever, in the last 8 winters in AK.
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03-17-2008, 08:26 PM #23
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you and JLOve, sweet pics! you all home?
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03-17-2008, 08:39 PM #24
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That's serious stoke... must do that.
Screw the net, Surf the backcountry!
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03-17-2008, 08:49 PM #25
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cha-ching-ching-ching-ching-ching-ching-ching-ching-ching-ching-ching-ching"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. The winds will blow their freshness into you, and the storms, their energy. Your cares and tensions will drop away like the leaves of Autumn." --John Muir
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