skiing at mount baker in the us with 72" snow at the base:
"opening day"
mt. baker is about 200km away from vancouver. the ski resort is called mt. baker but actually it isn't mt. baker, it is just in the area of mt. baker. I don't know why but they get tones of snow every year, so this year. the record they had in 98-99 was 11 meters and this was not what they got in the whole year, it was just what they had at measured at one day.
the base station of mt. baker
line in front of the ticket sale, we had to wait about 1 hour. staff said it was the busiest day they can remember.
it didn't stopped to snow
I got a ticket :-), I will put this in a picture frame
the base station of mt. baker
joost, the guy with whom I drove to mt. baker, is works at ubc and is from Netherlands
finally we were on the mountain, it was just amazing, joost riding
I don't know if the word deep is enough to describe this powder
playing with the snow
we did this drop, unfortunately we didn't take a picture
can you see anybody?
it was so soft to jump, you could go down everywhere, that was just crazy, joost
riding through a canyon
me
you had to be careful about where you go, otherwise you would stick in the snow and had to dig you out for at least half a hour
joost jumping down
well, no one of us, this guy is insane, I don't want to know how big this drop is (and this wasn't even the biggest I have seen at this day)
crazy
joost riding through the trees
snow, snow and more snow
me
get a movie of a powder run powder ride mt baker.MPG (5mb)
no worries, we didn't go there, I am now old enough to know this
we rather skied in an area with trees, that is really awesome here, you can (and you are allowed) to go everywhere
pro rider steppe openly :-) (well, actually the pro rider got old and everything was sore the next day)
an interesting thing about skiing in the states: the don't have anything which prevents to fall out of a chair lift
well, that was the record in '99. 11m of snow (there is a mark on the the column)
last ride for the pro rider at that day (because he was tired)
the snow was "big", but the cars are even BIGGER
joost, tired
me
on the way home
