After a fun evening hanging out with the local Valdezians, we awoke to almost totally blue skis. We were packed, ready to go and out the door at 8:00am. Today was probably one of my top all-time ski days.

Nothing like touring the Chugach with the legendary Dean Cummings. Amazing pace and a great variety of runs today. A little deep, ultra blower powder, some nice long chutes, and some of the steepest terrain I've ever skied in my life.

Here's a couple photo's from the day.

Here's a shot of Harvey in the helicopter on the ride out. It's almost more of a self-portrait with the reflection in his goggles.

At the bottom of our first run, we looked up to see the shelf of our second run. We landed the heli on top where the black arrow is pointing.

This is what the same run looks like from the top. Can you say amazing?

Dean Cummings shows Matt Harvey his line and where to stop.

Here's after Harvey skied it.

The above image is the view of the mountains from the top of our 4th run. A super long blower pow run over a bunch of rollers down through a bunch of crevasses. The next couple shots are all of the same run, until the last image which is of the same mountain range but on the glacier bottom.

We trade off each run on who gets to go first. Here's the first turns of the run.

This is the view looking up the run we just skied down. Scale and perspective are so different in AK. Things that look small are actually twice as big as they seem.

And this last image is from the pick-up zone on the glacier, pointing towards the same peaks as the image previously.

I didn't post the image here, but we skied some super steep true Alaska terrain today. The kind you hear about and see in the movies, about 50-55 degrees. Dean our guide told us before we dropped in, "this is serious guys, hands out in front, take your time, don't make a turn unless you are 110% sure you're going to make it, and whatever you do, this is not a place to fall. This is the real deal." I'll post the image in the gallery or maybe in the final blog post for this trip. Don't worry Mom, we're being really careful and safe.

The mountains are so big and beautiful it's absolutely mystifing. We skied approximately 25,000 vertical feet in 6 runs. We were done by with our daily quota by 1:00 pm. More to come.