schubwa
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Wow, what a week. I hadn't posted since early in the week due to limited internet time and fun and games at the hut. It just kept getting better and better as the week progressed. Wednesday was another snowy start but then it quickly cleared and we charged up to the Kodak area just above the hut and into the alpine. After some delicious long runs to the valley floor it really started to heat up. We even ducked back inside to grab t-shirts, sun hats and dry gloves. By the end of the day it had got damp on the south and west facing slopes. We figured we were toast on those exposures for the rest of the week. Then the clouds came back in.
On the way up Kodak.
Lower down in the trees on the same run, before the big warm up.
Wednesday is hump day but we're in no hurry to end this work week.
Thursday morning and it's snowing again. We're thinking dust over heinous breakable. April fools! But it's amazingly skiable and we're heading up to the glacier and it's north facing slopes. The forecast was for clearing and lo and behold, the weather improved and we headed up to Devine Peak. This was one of my favorite days as we roped up for some glacier travel, picked our way through the crevasses and over the bergschrund. Then up a knife-edge ridge to one of the sweetest ramps I've skied. Down to an ice cave, finished off by a perfect run on Solitude (with good jumps). Bravo!
Devine Peak is the objective for today. We ascended to the right, up and over to the killer $hit on the NE flank.
On our way up the guides were probing to check depths. Soon after this shot we roped up.
Scot skinning up near the top of the peak.
Yummy.
It was almost better than $ex.
This is not a blue screen. It is the luminous floor of an ice cave we explored at the bottom of our Devine Peak run.
Hanna and Rob are from the Bay Area. Schubwa in the middle with Scot and Caroline enjoying the clear ice of the cave.
Our run down Solitude to end the day. We stayed bunched up to avoid clattering down a crevasse or getting t-boned by a slider.
This is our home run. Storm clouds stacking up for Friday's action.
On the way up Kodak.
Lower down in the trees on the same run, before the big warm up.
Wednesday is hump day but we're in no hurry to end this work week.
Thursday morning and it's snowing again. We're thinking dust over heinous breakable. April fools! But it's amazingly skiable and we're heading up to the glacier and it's north facing slopes. The forecast was for clearing and lo and behold, the weather improved and we headed up to Devine Peak. This was one of my favorite days as we roped up for some glacier travel, picked our way through the crevasses and over the bergschrund. Then up a knife-edge ridge to one of the sweetest ramps I've skied. Down to an ice cave, finished off by a perfect run on Solitude (with good jumps). Bravo!
Devine Peak is the objective for today. We ascended to the right, up and over to the killer $hit on the NE flank.
On our way up the guides were probing to check depths. Soon after this shot we roped up.
Scot skinning up near the top of the peak.
Yummy.
It was almost better than $ex.
This is not a blue screen. It is the luminous floor of an ice cave we explored at the bottom of our Devine Peak run.
Hanna and Rob are from the Bay Area. Schubwa in the middle with Scot and Caroline enjoying the clear ice of the cave.
Our run down Solitude to end the day. We stayed bunched up to avoid clattering down a crevasse or getting t-boned by a slider.
This is our home run. Storm clouds stacking up for Friday's action.