5/23 Here it is as viewed on the aproach: http://www.uvm.edu/skivt-l/image_upload/World/mgst.jpg It only drops 600 vertical feet, but it's quite a worthy target. It has a very sharp ridgeline with sheer cliffs on either side. Between them are deep slots through rock walls holding on to snow on every aspect. There are at least 10 different ways down and all of them have bite. We'd been eyeing the northeast face for a while, particularly the two biggest runs in this shot: http://www.uvm.edu/skivt-l/image_upload/World/mgqm.jpg Access is by way of a couple miles of easy pitched skinning to the base, then a steep ascent to the top: http://www.uvm.edu/skivt-l/image_upload/World/st2mg5.jpg http://www.uvm.edu/skivt-l/image_upload/World/st2md3.jpg That's us climbing the opposite side of our intended ski - a choice we made to save on time and effort. Our run would be longer and steeper than the climb. Once at the top we traveled along the ridge to get a look down the entrances. http://www.uvm.edu/skivt-l/image_upload/World/st2mg4.jpg They'd melted out some since we last took a look, so we chose the skier's left run which had the best way in: http://www.uvm.edu/skivt-l/image_upload/World/st2mdw3.jpg http://www.uvm.edu/skivt-l/image_upload/World/st2mdw4.jpg Good accoustics between those walls. Sounded like talking in stereo. The snow was excellent for us once again, as was the terrain. Left our marks on that small package of dynamite, then skied another 1,000' of vertical through rolling meadows back to the car. Sweet cruising and great scenery. Winter was quite a trooper- it was the scariest run she's ever been down. She got nervous in a couple nearly-disastrous slips while we were booting up, but regained her composore each time. Then she proceeded to tear down the coulior with no fear. She likes it steep!. Some ski shots from within the run(Mir has the red jacket and green pants): http://www.uvm.edu/skivt-l/image_upload/World/st2mg3.jpg http://www.uvm.edu/skivt-l/image_upload/World/st2mg2.jpg http://www.uvm.edu/skivt-l/image_upload/World/st2md1.jpg http://www.uvm.edu/skivt-l/image_upload/World/st2md2.jpg http://www.uvm.edu/skivt-l/image_upload/World/st2mg1.jpg http://www.uvm.edu/skivt-l/image_upload/World/st2mdw1.jpg A lot of un up there! As you can see, the Sharktooth has more thrills in waiting than many mountains several times it's size. A great little hidden treasure. mpd - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SkiVt-L is brought to you by the University of Vermont. To unsubscribe, visit http://list.uvm.edu/archives/skivt-l.html
