Thursday
Mar192009
Skiing California's 14ers
From a distance it looked perfect. Perfectly epic. But from the summit, with skis on, looking down at an enormous chockstone wedged into the trap door of a fifty-five degree couloir, nine thousand vertical feet above the trucks, a sliver’s width passage to either side and only the thinnest of early-spring rot to look forward to, the prospect suddenly became, as Pondella would later recall, “frickin’ dicey.”
Read the whole story in the latest Eastside Magazine.
Read the whole story in the latest Eastside Magazine.
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