[NMCCSC] Grouse Creek Trip Report

[Rachel Searles]

Sounds great! Thanks for all the details!

On Wed, Jan 22, 2025, 5:39 AM Vicky Kauffman via NMCCSCeGroup <
nmccscegroup at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:

> 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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