A new storm

2/5/10
Gulmarg

Sorry I’m posting multiple posts at a time, getting on the Internet is not the most convenient thing to do here.

Woke up today to snow falling. The forecasted storm has shown up a day early. Great news. This storm is expected to last for 3 days and dump up to a meter of new snow. Today we’re running errands. Charging every electronic we can now before the city power turns off. Scouting out and possibly building a jump this afternoon.

Around noon, Wes and I donned our skis and skinned up the hill outside our hotel. A few minutes into the excursion, we came across a long-forgot about hotel that never made it past the foundation phase. Rebar and concrete made empty block shapes with pillows of snow beginning to sit on top of everything. We found a slopped roof about thirty-feet up that was possible to jump off of when we get another 3 feet of snow.



We took our time skinning up and around the 600-foot hill. The forest was so peaceful and we were making the only tracks in the virgin snow. You could still make out fallen logs and stumps, but they were beginning to look more and more like big white blobs.

Eventually we reached the top, where I switched from skis to snowboard and descended down an awesome run with fresh powder. It wasn’t very long, maybe ten turns or so, but the snow was deep and the stoke was high.

This is just the start of a storm that is supposed to last through Sunday. This place desperately needs the snow, and soon it might all be skiiable. Inshalah