Morning photo: First sunny day in April

Posted on April 29, 2011 by Bob Berwyn

Brilliant Breckenridge backcountry

Amy Z. lappin' up Little Baldy Bowl.

Story and photos by Matt Krane

Elapsed skinning time to Little Baldy Summit— 1:25 for me, anyhow. Autopilot boot-top winter snow turns two thirds of the way down. Blew past a skier and two boarders building a big kicker. I was listening to a 1974 Grateful Dead show, ‘Big Railroad Blues’ at the time, definitely in a groove. They were definitely caught off guard. If I hadn’t been fiddling with my large camera so much on the way up, Leslie Ross and Amy would not have caught up to me on the pitch. A great surprise to find good friends to share some rarified air, long-needed sun, and some great vertical. if Father Dyer Peak wasn’t in the way, I think I might’ve been able to see the house i grew up in back in Los Angeles.” If you’re on the Summit Voice home page, there’s more, after the break … (more…)

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