Lucas and I went up to Rocky Mountain National Park this Saturday to earn some turns in the fresh snow. They had gotten about 6 overnight on top of a few smaller snow events during the week and it continued snowing all day. We parked at Bear Lake and started with a warmup lap in the terrain park. It turned out to be a burly skin and then a pretty hairy line. We cliffed-out multiple times and I triggered an inconsequentially small slab on a 50 degree rollover. Overall the snow was good and the line was steep and fun.
We continued our day by skinning over to the East Face of Flat Top. The face was a popular afternoon destination for backcountry skiers. Coverage was more sparse than I was expecting, but there was enough to make turns on most of the slope without concern. We decided the East Face was worthy of another lap, and afterwards traversed out to the car.
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