I woke up to the sound of my alarm going but it didn't do much to wake me up. The problem was that I had set my computer alarm to play my "Chill" playlist instead of an intense playlist that would make me budge in the slightest. It really doesn't matter what playlist or alarm would go off, it always takes a while for me to get out of bed if it's not a powder day. Today as it turns out was hot as any spring day, the problem is that it's not spring. Spring is in fact five months away; it is in fact the end of November! This year has actually been pretty good so far with snow pack adding up quickly with frequent storms followed by warmer weather that allows me to make the tough decision between climbing in Buena Vista or skiing backcountry around Leadville. both choices make me drool but today Alex and I had already decided to make quick ski tour out of Homesteak Mountain, an area we have yet to make tracks at before he went to Denver for dinner with his family. We made it to the trailhead at 9:00 or so and quickly skinned up the trail passing by Continental Divide Hut for detour number one. After that we decided to skin in the direction of a sign with "Treeline" on it. It probably didn't help that "Powderhound" was in the same direction. We later (20 minutes) found out the trail we were on never made it close to the real treeline and instead backtracked over a small hill back to another skin track that led us directly back to the parking lot we had started at little over 2 hours earlier. We took our skins off a ZERO times and enjoyed ZERO turns but we are both happy to have made these mistakes on one of our first ski tours in the area so that next time we know to haul ass to the 10th Mountain Hut because nothing in between is worth anytime. That's a day!
-Owen
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