His Thoughts Colorado Firstrax is full of wonderful articles about great places to ski, but if you read carefully you may observe that the best runs are often indicated only vaguely. Devout backcountry skiers are a little bit like trout fishermen in that way. No one wants to share their best fishing hole. We seek a refined, ephemeral experience to be found in untracked powder, the steep and deep, and we expend great effort for a brief epiphany of muscles and balance, speed, aspect, and crystal structure. And when we discover those special places where that feeling is to be found, we return to them, but only with our closest and most trusted friends and ski buddies.
Life is too short to climb all that way only to find it tracked out by somebody else.
For that you can ride lifts. I may be cagey about my favorite tree runs, but I am generous enough to offer some tips to aspiring seekers in finding their own. But before I continue, I must warn the reader that I have a bad reputation among my friends for getting lost. It's not really true. I generally know more or less where I am.