The Snow Troopers hitting the jackpot as far as GREAT powder is concerned. Showed up at Alyeska Resort Monday the 8th of March 2010 w/ a 31″ base. Tuesday the 9th waking up late for the 10:30AM (like that schedule!!!) regular opening only to find a new base total of 63″!?! Understandable that the mountain would be opening late due to high avy danger and MASS control work to be completed. No worries from The Snow Troopers, oh yeah, the Hwy from Anchorage closed for the DAY due to HUGE slides. Turned out the top chair reported 45″ of fresh over night and the first chair of the day was loaded at 1:20PM. Super deep feather light snow lift served up and ready to go! Over the next 3 days the patrol fed the terrain perfectly to the public, starting every day w/ some untracked. Mix in a Chugach trip and the kick butt dinner they treat their weekly heli guests to after a evening tram ride to the Seven Glaciers restaurant where Chef Tanner Exposito served up the BEST dinner ever. Finished off the wonderful stay in Girdwood, Alaska by leaving the resort and taking a left(South) on to Seward highway for a 30 min easy drive to Turnagain Pass where bluebird skies and perfect knee deep pow was the best way to finish a perfect trip. Time to start planning next years trip. Check out some pics of some of the trip at Alyeska, AK
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Chris Hanrahan
Those were some of the best days of my life!! I got 1st chair the day the hwy was blocked by avalanche’s. 41″ of fun!!! & to top it off i went cat skiing the next day! just 1 cat made it out that day & we were the 1st to the top of the mountaim.. Fresh tracks every run!! Yeeew!!! I travelled from Sydney Australia for 2 weeks & stayed 6 weeks!!… It just kept getting better & better!! I Love Girdwood!!!
TNT
Lucky guy! We were in the Blue cat, but all was fine w/ us, had a nice hot meal (like you) and a tow out. Hopped on the tram and did a couple. Climbed for some fresh up on Turnagain Pass the following day. Epic!
Alyeska, AK – Telepalooza – March 25th, 2010 « The Snow Troopers
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Jared Gross
hey great vid of the area you really captured some great winter moments! You got the one two girls on your video. Cammi won and Emilie was second at the telepalooza extreme comp.
TNT
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