[NMCCSC] Grouse Creek Trip Report

[Vicky Kauffman]

Sounds fun with a caveat of cold🥶
Always fun to have Doug along 🌨️❄️

On Tue, Jan 21, 2025, 20:12 David D Antonio via NMCCSCeGroup <
nmccscegroup at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:

> Skiers: Doug Erb and David D'Antonio.
> Conditions: About 28" of snow, calm with temps never reaching 10 degrees F.
> A Bode's breakfast burrito powered us up the trail. Doug commented
> afterwards that it was steady 4 mile up the whole way. With the cold, you
> don't really stop, keep moving keeps you warm. Other than one small spot
> that was windblown and now icy with a few rocks poking through, the snow
> was good to excellent. We arrived at the yurt at 4pm, happy and exhausted.
> Got right to work: heat and water. Took awhile for the yurt to heat up, we
> probably felt coldest at this time. Our toes wouldn't unfreeze. But a warm
> yurt, a good dinner and conversation and a warm sleeping bag were wonderful
> payoffs. Not to mention beer.
> Short tours the next day. A 2 hour up and down through the woods, followed
> by lunch and relax at the yurt and then another 1 1/2 in the late
> afternoon. Après ski hour, dinner, games, fun.
> Each night clear and below zero. You could go out to the outhouse in your
> yurt clothes and not feel cold at all. Of course, not too long!
> Skied out in the blink of an eye, under 2 hours. Where did the time go?
> Sorry you couldn't make it!
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