Axtel 2nd Bowl
Tom Runcie and myself
3.25.09
Well, the end of calendar winter went out without so much as a whimper, with days on end of hot sunshine melting what has now become a fairly average snowpack in most CO mountains. Now that it is officially spring, snow has begun to fall once again. Though the Crested Butte ski area isn’t know for large snowfalls when storms come out of the NW, the surrounding backcountry can do quite well. Axtel may only be a few miles to the W of Crested Butte, but conditions couldn’t have been more different. Here’s the proof: Tom Runcie having the run of the year:
Where did Tom go? 
UPDATE:
I thought I would add Tom’s photos of me as well:
[...] in all, the deepest day since this one last year, and shades of the epicness that was this day, the best one ever. It’s starting to feel like [...]