Oct 29, 2011, Heliotrope Ridge

Feeling self conscious about my lurker status on TAY around the likes of prolific posters chmnyboy and skier8484, I figured I should probably kick off the TR from today's outing.

After enviously oogling all the tasty midweek trip reports and knowing I only have a couple weeks left in the Northwest, I decided to embrace a marginal forecast and make a day of it at the uberunderground early season destination that is Heliotrope Ridge. With Brian recently returned after 7 months of recovering from a broken leg there was all the more reason to head for the alpine.

The thing about forecasts, is that they are usually wrong (especially when they come from NOAA). When that forecast is marginal, it makes for a wonderfully unexpected day of smooth, consistent (and wicked fast!) wind bough under clear skies. Great first day of the season!

here's some high definition moving images from the day for your viewing pleasure