Well…I/we got shutdown on a line I’ve been looking at recently. More or less for jumping the gun after a bunch of new snow fell in the mountains, as well as not being early enough…my biggest pet peeve. My plan was to ski the line around 11am…but it really needed to be more like 8am with it being the first sunny day after nearly a foot of fresh fell in the high country.
Anyway, the decision was pretty obvious to me. We were booting up a steep section…over some serious exposure, when some slough peeled off the rocks above and grew in size. It felt like it was headed right for me…but I managed to avoid it. It looked big enough to knock me over and take me where I didn’t want to go. We still had some climbing to do before we’d be out of the line of fire…and then of course there would still be the descent. It was an easy decision for me to pull the plug. Live to ski…right? Pulling back the reigns a little today.
Steve,
Good call. Better to live to ski another day. Getting away with it doesn’t mean that you made the correct decision.
Right on. Thanks Patricio
its just been that kind of spring, no real cycles, better to be safe the to push it too close.