I am always fascinated by the way snow piles up in the mountains. Pow forms spines, pockets, drifts, and pillows. Snow all over the west has been piling up on trees, rocks and steeps forming tasty pillows and I have been lucky enough to shred a hand full of them. The thing that’s great about pillow lines is that, from the bottom looking up you find yourself thinking that you’ll just bounce down as many features as you can, and it all looks smooth and easy. From the the top, everything looks different. The type of terrain that best collects pillows is generally steep in nature but the pillows themselves are flat as a pancake. So from the top you start looking for ways to just barely tap down them to create as smooth a flow as possible.
A typical look down in pillow land over the shoulder of Kye Petersen.
Seth Morrison finding some tranny.
Creek crossing in the hunt for pillows, Photo Pete O’Brien
pillow madness! photo Pete O’brien
Photo Pete O’brien
Seth took these last three shots while we were in in the north cascades, this zone was super fun lots of line options and transfers.
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