Around Lake San Cristobal

When I have some free time between fishing trips, I often hop on the bike and ride around Lake San Cristobal and take in the views.

Lake San Cristobal

Lake Fork of the Gunnison River flowing into Lake San Cristobal

Cliffs above Lake San Cristobal

Butterfly near the lake

Looking down on Lake San Cristobal toward Cinnamon Pass

The road to Lake City with Uncompahgre towering in the background

The Continental Divide reflecting on the surface of Lake San Cristobal on a summer evening

The Continental Divide above Lake San Cristobal aglow at sunset

Brighton and Solitude

A number of instructors at Deer Valley made it over to Big Cottonwood Canyon in the spring for some powder days.  We hit both resorts: Brighton and Solitude.

Looking over at Brighton from Solitude on a powder day

Powder day at Solitude

Powder day at Solitude

Trey skiing through the trees at Solitude looking for some more powder stashes

Powder day at Solitude

Powder day at Solitude

Powder day at Solitude: Honeycomb Canyon opened for us in the afternoon

This cliff under Millie Lift at Brighton is MUCH bigger than it looks.  Buddy dropped off it and got a nice concussion for his troubles.

Brighton powder day

Exploring gone wrong: Buddy climbing back up to the lift

Afternoon at Brighton after surviving some ill-advised runs through Hidden Canyon--the powder was awesome though

Skiing Brighton and Snowshoeing at Night

A group of instructors trekked over to Brighton in Big Cottonwood Canyon to ski on a couple of our days off.  We found powder!

I didn't filter the color out of this picture--it was just that grey of a day.  But there was plenty of powder to make up for it.

Brighton side-country / backcountry access

Big Cottonwood Canyon

Brighton crew

Blake searches for another missing ski in deep powder outside of Brighton Resort

Buddy sent it off a cliff and ended up buried to his waist

After another day off, a group gathered for a snowshoe hike by the light of a full moon.  Above, Park City by moonlight

The bright lights in the top right are Park City Mountain Resort lit up for night skiing