Playground 1.22.09

(Last Updated On: January 25, 2009)

Rob, Tom, Tom’s friend Luke visiting from Boston, and I headed out one last time with stable conditions to an area called the playground. It’s a really fun area with a series of chutes, pillows, cliffs and spiny-like ridges that is a blast to ski. A few flakes started to fall throughout the day, and now I would think that 3′ has fallen in the area since Thursday. Tough to say when conditions will once again be safe enough to go back there, but we’ll have to be content skiing deep powder at the ski area until then 😉

The Playground. Tom=Red, Luke=yellow, Rob=green, Frank=purple
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The light was flat with the incoming storm, and it’s tough to get photos in a treed area like the playground, but here’s a few:
Tom can be seen if you look closely:
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Same thing with Rob:
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Rob drops in
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Tom heads back to the front on a run called Ziggens:
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Luke makes his way through Ziggens:
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A scenic to part with. The castles in the West Elks can barely be seen through the clouds:
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Frank Konsella

Frank loves snow more than anything... except his wife.  He ensures his food is digested properly by chewing it 32 times before swallowing.He is a full-time real estate agent serving Crested Butte and Gunnison and would be honored to send you his monthly newsletter.

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Frank Konsella

Frank loves snow more than anything... except his wife.    He ensures his food is digested properly by chewing it 32 times before swallowing. He is a full-time real estate agent serving Crested Butte and Gunnison and would be honored to send you his monthly newsletter.

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