Skiing Maverick

I was finally able to get out and ski something different than 25 Short today. Jon and I decided to head up Maverick, which is just to the south of 25 short, to see what it had to offer. Well, the first thing that it had to offer was some more heinous trailbreaking. Seven inches of new snow (about 18-20 in. in the last two days) and a lot of wind obscured most of the skin track (that's the trail we ski up). And when there is no pre-existing skin track, some one has to put it in by breaking trail. This job fell to us because we happened to be the first ones up it today. I'm not sure why this happens to me so frequently, but it must be my early starts. If you want to call 9 in the morning early. We were finally able to reach a suitable high point at 9,500 ft. and decided to strip the skins and enjoy the deep powder on the way down. Well, this didn't exactly happen. The snow was very deep, but also very wet and heavy. This was probably due to it being a balmy 30 degrees when I left the house, while reaching an even more tropical 40 degrees during the day. The heavy, deep snow made the skiing down quite difficult, and we made tentative turns down. Despite the gruelling trek up I had been ready to make two trips up the slope to get some more skiing in, but the conditions coming down did not warrant another trip up. I decided to bag the second trip up and skied back down to the car. I guess not every day can be perfect and effortless. Luckily, snow conditions are always changing and tomorrow could be perfect.