[John Morrow]

Fun summer day in the Teanaway. Started up the Iron Peak Trail and put skis on in less than a mile!. From Iron saddle scrambled north up the south ridge of Teanaway Peak for our first great views of the "home hills". My first day in the Cascades since mid April and it was great to be home.

Jake arrives at Iron saddle

Matt takes to the scramble

Matt and Jake topping out

Matt, Dave, and Jake happy for summer

The ski off the SE side of Teanaway Peak down the big blaze was already sloppy and gloppy from direct sun by 10:30AM.

Alligator wrestling???

Jake off the top

Dave

Matt

Matt on edge

Dave in the big SE gully

Matt

Searching for firmer snow we headed over to Mary's Peak 6640+ to ski the gentle open trees of the north slope of it. It was a bit deep and heavy too but more consistent. I'm thinking it was deep due to the late new snow hanging on the north aspects.

Dave in high gear

Jake and Matt near Mary's

Matt and the 1st run behind

Sloppy north aspect (not pretty)

To get back to the car and find perhaps one run on good corn we went to the top of Iron and finally found decent corn snow off its west slopes, eventually traversing back to the trail at the point where we initially put the skis on.

Dave jogging to Iron

Matt ending a great one

"Good Times, boys"-to quote Matt at the end of the day. Lots of snow above 5000 feet in the Teanaway for at least one more week. In this heat west slopes seem to the the best bet for firm corn until further consolidation.

[Opus]

So it was you I was chasing! I camped on top of Iron Saturday night and took a trip over to Mary and Judy, off and on seeing ski tracks. Then used your kicked steps to get up Teanaway this morning on my way out. Awesome weather!

[John Morrow]

No one was home at your tent, Opus, when we stopped by! Sorry to miss you. John

[Allison]

I was just going to ask if you guys ran into each other.

[Randy]

Nice John! Good to see you hitting the Teanaway again. Skied the cascadian couloir last weekend and it was excellent. Love the area.

[kite]

Looks like a awesome day outside!

[John Morrow]

Thanks Randy, looks like you been getting out. I think it has been a year to the day since I have skied/hiked with you. Gotta change that. I see you were on Red yesterday as well. Nice work. Any free weekends for rest of June? I start working weekends over July 4 so have some time. Dropped a line to Don also. See you soon I hope. J

[Randy]

Good idead John. I think Don metioned next week's trip to you. Hopefully that's something your can make happen!