For November turns this year – the first official turns of the season – I revisited the place from October and wow, did it look different! I went with the Sippel Sisters, a pair of real-life twins and the born-into owners of one of the best potential band names of all times. You’ve all heard about Theresa, but her twin Trisha just moved to the PNW and I was stoked to get out with both of them. I also had some strange flashbacks to my childhood spend skiing with my twin sisters…but I digress.
We left Seattle super early and drove up to Naches Peak, just outside of Mt. Rainier National Park. We were skinning by 8:45am, at the top by 10am, at the top of our second lap by 11:15am, and back at the car driving home by noon. Can we count that as dawn patrol?
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| When you adventure with twins, everything is the same same, but different. |
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| Theresa forgot her tutu, but luckily Trisha had the green on lock down. |
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| Trying to find a way around the creek… |
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| Skinning into the abyss. |
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| Trying to see zee mountain. Visibility was even worse than it looks. |
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| Theresa stoked to drop in for our first lap! |
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| The snow was light and fluffy in the morning, crusting up as it warmed later in the day. Remarkably good coverage considering the low snow depth. |
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| Trisha may or may not have fallen right after this was taken…. |
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| Goodnight Owly. Thanks for joining. |
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| Our friends were around the day before and left us a smiley. We love skiers. |
