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<br><br>It's one that Gary put together a while back to start keeping track of all the neat places he had discovered around Paradise over the years.
<br><br>It's very nice to have Gary's map, so when he, Robie, or Dorothea speak of something, we know where it is, like the back bowl, or Bundy's. As Ron said we haven't even covered all of the territory available for skiing at Paradise, and haven't had a need to do the Muir snowfield in the past 5+ years. There is just to much great skiing available in so many different areas. Shoot we can go for several weekends to Paradise, ski different lines and never run into anyone else, which is such a great part of bc skiing. A lot of our chioces for skiing are based on the snow conditions, weather, wind scoured snow, breakable crust etc. We have covered lots of lower elevation slopes around Paraidse proper and have been able to find powder stashes in places you would never think to look. Some of our most fun days have been skiing the lower angles in high avy conditions. Looking over TR's the following Monday, on bad weather weekends, just confirms that sometimes the best snow is passed up trying to find someting better. <br><br>This past weekend the snow was fantastic, but the Longmire gate didn't open as early as we thought, so doing a "big" tour was out of the question for us "geezer" types. We knew that the Mazama bowl would be crowded just from the number of people that were waiting for some of that great powder, and choice of various angles available. Ron, Jerry, myself, and Dick figured this would be the case, so we decided to venture off into the abiss to find someting new to ski, we found it, knew it wasn't on the "Rosetta Stone" map and named it "White's Knuckle", since Jerry was the first to ski in that particular spot, and then of course I came up with "Pillow Talk" since there seemed to be pillows and pillows of endless powder skiing below "White's Knuckle". So, that's how the naming goes. There is so much skiable terrain available and if racking up the vertical isn't that important to you, all you have to do is accept the adventure, find something you haven't skied yet, and knock it out. It's actually very fun to seek out your very own uncrowded slice of Paradise and have your way with it.In the process of searching out Gary's spots we have discovered may spots of our own. And during the process we see other lines we want to check out and then another. Sometimes we go all year before we get back to "the Stone" to look for another of Gary's goodies.
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