Because we’re retired and we can, Ron Noble and I choose to ski on Monday and avoid the "weekend crowd" in the mountains. We parked at the Big Meadows Road and skied up the road for about a mile, turning right at the first junction. The weekend traffic had cut deep tracks into the snow and it wasn’t until we had made a couple of more turns that we where able to leave these tracks and find our way on a smooth surface.
Ron with Duffy Butte in the background
We made Bradley Lake our lunch stop, and had a leisure lunch in the warm sunshine.
Ron at Bradley Lake
We reversed our route for the return trip, which was mostly down hill. Our whole day was blue skies and bright sunshine before re-entering the fog of the valley outside of Stayton.
return trip with Three Fingered Jack in the background
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