Training Log Archive: Carbons Offset

Puzzle Peak, highway 93N
This one looked like a simple one to explore with a nice ramp for turns, and plenty of space so that we could still put in some fresh tracks despite several people skiing it recently. Carbon and David A were interested. At the last minute, I heard from Marcus that he was available, so he joined us to.
Parked about a km or so past Mosquito Creek, there is a slight clearing on the right where the highway bends left. Parked on the right side of the highway. Some of the route follows a somewhat cleared line, other parts go through forest with space for tight turns. About halfway up, it clears a little, with a slope above you to your left, and levels out (remember this if skiing back out; once you have returned past this little clearing and climbed the slight rise at the end of the clearing, it is all downhill through the trees and you can remove the skins if you had put them on).
On the way up, from here you can see the slope slightly to the right. There is an obvious ramp, plus a slight depression on the far lookers left that probably often has nice snow and probably gets skied less than the main ramp, and then there is a lot of area to explore on the looker's/climber's right of the main slope, wrapping around the shoulder. Not as open and simple as the main ramp, but could be interesting to explore. Some of it might end up being a bit benchy. It might work for a last run out. Another option for a last run would be to add a lap on Dolomite Shoulder.
We followed the drainage up to the ramp. If hazard was higher (today was low-low-moderate(Alpine)), I would chose something that didn't have all of us in the drainage at once.
Left the car at 8:30. Reached the top of the ramp in about 2.5 hours.
First lap: followed some existing uptrack but put in a bit of new uptrack to shave some angle off a section that was steeper than it needed to be. Went down the skier's right of where most of the tracks were still faintly visible underneath new snow. The snow on the right skied nicely and consistently, and was fast with a nice depth of fresh stellars on top of a very supportive layer. First one down in our group, no track to follow or spoon, so I was enjoying and just kept chasing my own ski tips down the fall line as it drew me right of where most people bottom out and re-skin. Had to traverse left to get back to the skin track. Kept our eyes open for rocks, you could see a couple poking up through the snow, but we all did fine.
Second lap: Decided to try the main slope of the ramp in order to get a longer fall line. The old tracks bucked me around a couple of times and were a bit wild if you were going really fast - it threw your front-back balance around a bit. Eventually found myself trending right to get back to the untouched snow we found previously. Headed back to the car after that. Fortunately we hadn't completely exhausted our legs, because we needed it for the ski out. There was a track to follow but it had seen some traffic and was a bit of a luge run; tiring on the quads. If it weren't for this exciting exit through the forest, this would be a great place to bring beginners. It is probably a bit better when there is more snow to fill in and cover more things in the forest.
Out for 5 hours. Mild day, nice inversion.

C • Rock slide! 5

16.6

Dirtbags
Met at Grizzly Paw’s new brewery and restaurant. Jogged up to Lower Cougar Creek. Then did a series of repeats of:
Bottom to top - hard
Top to half - recover
Half to top - hard
Top to bottom - recover
Rest
Repeat

Then jogged back to the brewery for pizza and socializing.

Felt tired at first, from spin class last night. Then ramped up to 89-96 spm.
320 floors.

Warmed up with some team spin up drills.
Main set was 5 x 4 min, as hard as you could average for all 5 reps. 2 min rest between reps.
Did 212W, 214, 216, 221, 242.
Should have gone harder on the first few, maybe 220W? 225W?
Absolutely went for it on the last one and didn’t have much left to finish the rest of the class.
Then 2 10-minute sets at sweet spot E3/E4, with just 2 minutes rest in between.
Warmed down with some team spin up drills.

15.1