Last night brought fresh snow and this morning brought clear skies. With the weather cleared, today was set to be a long day with lunch on at mid-mountain if you stopped skiing long enough to enjoy it. Mark Briel racked up over 25,000 of vertical descent with his highest starting elevation over 16,000 feet. John Yunger and Bill Vala skied another 15,000 vertical feet bringing our 3 day vertical descent totals to 55,500 (MB), 36,500 (BV) and 28,500 (JY) feet. We saw a different part of the Himalayan range surrounded by 17,000+ foot peaks including Norbu (17,146) ,Deo Tibba (19,688) & Indrasan (20,140). We enjoyed fresh tracks all day until our legs could take now more. We ate lunch at the base of a moraine carved out by glaciers. We could see large glacier remnants up the valley hanging on the mountains edges. Eating lunch and relaxing at 12,400 was warm and peaceful. The only sounds were our cracking smiles, abundant amazement filled conversation and rotor blades from our helicopter shuttle buzzing from 12,000 feet back up to 16,000 and again and again and again. No words can truly describe the overwhelming experience we were gifted today.
