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Winter in the park 2015

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Mar 4, 2015 at 12:39 pm #1326444

Paul Magnanti
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@paulmags
Locale: Colorado Plateau

Another winter backpacking trip with Andrew Skurka in Rocky Mountain National Park.

Mar 4, 2015 at 10:33 pm #2180102

Alex Wallace
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@feetfirst
Locale: Sierra Nevada North

Looks like a good time was had by all. Thanks for sharing.

I've done a couple of short ski tour trips and your photos have me itching to do more. Thumbs up for the motivation.

Mar 5, 2015 at 2:22 pm #2180338

Tim Drescher
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@timdcy
Locale: Gore Range

All that new powder looks enticing. When are you and Skurka going to strap on fat skis and start showing clients how to crush lines? :D

Mar 6, 2015 at 6:01 pm #2180592

Randy Nelson
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@rlnunix
Locale: Rockies

Nice! What did you use for shelters on this trip?

Mar 6, 2015 at 6:40 pm #2180596

Paul Magnanti
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@paulmags
Locale: Colorado Plateau

re: Fat skis

Skiing up a mountain, and then down a mountain to "crush lines", can be fun. But that is more day-use territory. :) Backcountry Nordic skis, to me any way, are more like hiking and seem to go well with the type of winter backpacking I enjoy. It is also perfect for the rolling terrain we had the clients on.

Having said that, I am using my K2 waybacks for some steeper terrain tomorrow, building a snow cave and skiing down Sunday.

re: Shelters

The venerable Shangri-La was used by quite a few clients. Andrew used an SD prototype. One client had a free-standing Big Agnes. I tried an experiment with a SMD Trekker. It went OK, but not great.
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