Portion of La Officina
Today Scott, Greg and myself skinned to a out of bounds area called La Officina, or the office.- Most of the lifts were shut down for the day due to high winds.- On our way out we ran into the Oakley crew consisting of Seth Morrison and Kye Peterson.
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Mattias skiing right before the white out hit.
After realizing the Oakley guys sessioned the closer zone, we skinned a litter further.- From there, one of my poles randomly broke which didn’t help with climbing.- Next, the snow temp seemed to have changed which resulted in heavy clumps of snow building on our skins.- Finally, the partly cloudy skies turned into a complete white out.- Greg was the first sufferer of vertigo and turned back the way we came.- Scott and I tried to blindly trek on.
Eventually, we dropped in eager to rip some pow.- It took me a couple turns before I became really nauseous, the one pole not helping with balance.- I made it to the bottom and met up with Greg.- Scott came down after and we soon realized he wasn’t feeling well either.- Slowly, we were able to trek back out of the valley and back to the resort.- We probably looked like we were learning how to ski.
When you first arrive to Las Lenas you feel like you are on the moon, no trees anywhere.- When a storm comes through and a misty fog settles in, you feel like you are lost in the clouds, often resulting in vertigo.- Not fun, but I guess that’ll happen.
Mattias
