Skiing in June?

Skiing in June? Why, yes. Alyeska got a huge amount of snowfall and ended up staying open until the weekend of June 3rd. So Jeff, Margaret, Chris, and I threw out any plans we may have made and headed south, young people. Sam came along for a day to do a hike near Denali.

We drove down to Denali Friday night and set up camp near the town. Our goal was to climb around on Bison Gulch. That day, though, it was in the 40s and as we climbed we began to experience winds approaching 50 and 60 mph. Here's us climbing. Tell me that Sam doesn't look like the Snow G.I. Joe.

After turning back, Jeff was dismayed to see that The Palace had blown over.

And of course, as we were leaving the ridge we'd wanted to climb became beautiful and sunny.

We woke up Sunday morning in Girdwood, where we proceeded to schralp the spring gnar. Here's a look at the North Face coming up the tram. Not too much left here.

Chris and I on the lift. The temps were awesome, but there was a little wind so we all ended up skiing in long sleeves the whole time.

The view down the lift.

The shades? $10 at the Hub of Alaska. Nice.

Here's Chris schralping the gnar, looking like a pro.

Nice work, Chris.

The bowl was still open, so that was cool. After our last run, we loaded back into the Jeep, loaded up on Qdoba, and made the Fairbanks run. I pulled into my apartment around 2:30 in the morning. Totally worth it.