Why carry a backpack when you're skiing?  To hold the camera of course!  Halfway down this slope I stopped to set up my camera and tripod.  There were a lot of funny looks from the people on the chairlift and those skiing by, but I knew what I was after.  I included the fence give the photograph some persepective.  I don't think that I captured how difficult those moguls were though!  I certainly appreciated the break.

This is from the top of our van at the end of the day:

 This is the gradual slope on which I spent most of the day: