The Moose and Mrs. Moose (henceforth to be known as Vitamin C as she wasn't too stoked on the Mrs. Moose moniker) met me at the parking lot for 8:30. The plan was to beat the park record which was held by the Moose and the Jackelope at 8,010 feet. I wasn't sure what to expect after yesterday, but an earlier start and a headlamp in my pack along with 1.3 liters of nectar should be sufficient for a good shot at it.

We were the second group to leave the parking lot, but the first to the top of Lemming Lane. We took the traditional up via the ridge. The weather forecast was calling for flurries and a high of -5C, but it was pretty much blue all day.The snow had set up a pinch from yesterday but still offered up face shots on demand. We recycled my up of yesterday which the Moose said was the best up he'd ever been on. Steep and direct yielded short lap times. We took great pleasure in seeing the skiers struggle with the up. If you don't like it, break your own damn up! After 3 laps we elected to head across the lake to get into the shade.

I stopped for some Jetboil stew while the Moose and Vitamin C headed up busting in an equally steep up. We stared down a poacher and he shuffled off to find another up to poach. Doing the math we soon realized that the park record was a gimme and we'd also wind up with our biggest day ever (Moose and I had a 10,270, Vitamin C had a 6,373) provided our legs held out. The snow was a bit better on this side thanks to the trees and we thoroughly enjoyed a couple laps down the Landing Strip. One last push up to the top followed by a sweet run down the wide open Bowling Lane brought us to the lake. From there it was a simple 5km skin back to the vehicle.

Total up was 10,460 and we covered 15.1 miles. We got to the vehicles without using the headlamps, so we did leave some vertical on the table. I was beat, but probably could have pulled another lap if I didn't have more powder to track tomorrow.