The weather and the snow quality has all changed now, but yesterday we got a late start skiing into a beautiful clear Tatoosh afternoon. Then the rains and sleet came through the night. Unapologetically, we bailed due to fog, saturated snow, and sleet and rain finally turning to snow.
Leaving Narada Falls lot at almost 2PM yesterday, we skied into the basin below Castle and Foss Peaks and dropped the gear. We then skinned up to Foss Peak summit to enjoy the perfectly clear late afternoon light. The climb was occasionally problematic in areas where the new snow was scoured to the very slick hard old rain crust.
Pinnacle look
Foss view
Nice Basin
To camp
Afternoon climb
Looking nice!
Great views
Up to ridge
Wapaneyo to Castle
Open country
Below Foss Pk
Unicorn, Adams, Hood
Tatoosh afternoon
No good, lottsa work
Stevens and Unicorn Basin
The ski was nice on cold (ankle to mid-boot) powder on the hard crust from 6500 to 5500 feet, and then less deep wetter powder back to camp.
Summit turns
Great light
Nice glade, thin powder
Deeper powder pockets
Back to camp
Camp sunset
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“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”-Mary Oliver
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”
― MLK Jr.
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