Mission: White Room, Sierra Nevada
Basically the sickest story ever already...
Our mission (which we gladly accepted) was to finally get out to "the wood" for some first tracks in what has become a winter of surfing, fishing, and endlessly scrolling the NOAA weather page waiting and watching for the first big Sierra dump of the year.
The side trips to Whistler (sick, but stormy), Mammoth (windblown worthlessness), Utah (ok, but far from stellar), and Colorado (what's up w/ Denver getting all the snow?), had done nothing to ease the pain for the crew known as the Freeride team. When were we going to be able to unleash our pent up energy, beer guts, shaky legs, and new equipment on the local playground of the Sierra's? The Freeride team is always searching out the best in winter snow recreation possibilities all over the west, but in keeping with the name we like for it to be free whenever possible. Free tickets, free gear, free beer, free crash pad, and of course freedom to ski hard and fast without the fear of stuffing a knee into a stump or ripping the bases out of our not-free new fat sticks. Since Cali is home, Cali provides us with the best opportunity to ski big lines and do it on the cheeeeaaaaap. But where was the snow? How do we complete Mission White Room?
