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PHOTO COMP - Picture this in the Bonningtons

  • 2011-03-25 21:14:42

    Picture this - You spend most of a day skinning up a powerline imagining and fantasizing about the amazing lines you are going to ride from the backcountry hut that you are headed to.

     


    Then picture this – You get to that hut check out the terrain and it is even better than you imagined  and on top of that as you are climbing the sun comes out and you know you are going to have a bluebird day.


    Then picture this – you do some snow study and your ruche block fails on a 2… and a 3!



    Picture -how bummed you  would be that you couldn’t ride the big face… but then picture how happy you are that you dug a pit and are still alive while riding the low angle and the trees and they are picture perfect.