Paige Brady

Archive for March, 2010

Icefall Lodge

The Tele Girls take a 15 minute heli ride outside of Golden, BC to backcountry ski out of the Icefall Lodge for a week. Martha Burly, Paige Brady, Shaun Raskin, and Candy Froerer with photographer Re Wikstrom have a great time skiing powder, jumping off cliffs, playing around on the pillow lines, and exploring some new terrain.

Beyond the gates of Jackson Hole

I finally got to ski the backcountry off of Jackson Hole.  After skiing a Granite lap in the morning we headed back up the tram  and went out the south gate towards Cody Peak.

Dropping into the "Double A Chute" in Granite Canyon

It was a pretty short boot pack before we we on the top of Once is Enough.

Starring in at "Once is Enough"

After looking down in it for a while and contemplating the VW Bus size chunk of snow just waiting to rip down, we decided to keep heading up to the top of Cody Peak to check out Twice is Nice.  It looked pretty good with a nice and easy entrance, though the crux was apparently around the bend so we couldn’t see it from the top.

Matt Kaso making some tele turns down "Twice is Nice"

Me, cautiously dropping in

I was a little nervous dropping in not knowing what lie ahead, and skiing with a bunch of guys that are very good skiers.  But when I finally got around the bend, what I thought was just going to be a narrow crux turned out to be a lot rockier and icier than I was hoping.  I carefully maneuvered through it and was excited to open it up down bellow.

Cody Peak

Once is Enough is the couloir on lookers left and Twice is Nice is the “S” shaped couloir on lookers right.  We hiked up another short bootpack to ski the Tenderloin back down before we started the traverse back to the resort.

hiking up to ski "The Tenderloin"

The first big-mountain telemark comp was a couple weekends ago at Alpine Meadows.  The venue once again was the Keyhole for both the qualifier and the finals day.  The plan of putting the finals day on the Buttress was shutdown due to bad snow conditions.  I ended up choosing a line that was through the rocks on lookers left, while most of the other competitors chose lines through the Keyhole itself.  All in all it was a very fun event.  Great to see everyone and thanks a ton to mama Phelps, Megan’s mom, for putting all of us up!

The Keyhole

Paige, Kate, Megan

Women:

1. Megan Michelson
2. Kate Cardamone
3. Paige Brady

Men:

1. Chris Erickson
2. Will Cardamone
3. JT Robinson