Any snowshoe mountaineers out there, Red Mountain is quite beautiful right now in knee high powder. For easier (and avy safer) trail breaking make a trail in forest down low when possible and then routefind to one of the upper ridgelines separating the basins where wind pack eliminates any wallow potential. Enjoy the deep light snow (running, plunging, diving, sommersaulting) on the way down!
Jake and I chose the northernmost basin today after using the trail through the lower old growth that Pico and I broke a few days ago. Snow was amazing in here with little wind effect. Just more than a foot of uncohesive light snow.
Into basin
Summit pops out
Gorgeous day
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Climbing higher
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First run was off the summit and a new line for us down the south slope/face. Great new line that Jake scoped out and tested for stability!
Off the top
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Down the south slope
Then we had just enough time to safely skin back up the main basin for turns back down to the end of the basin.
Even the clearcut below skied well, until the coverage was so thin I wish I had snowshoes through the leafless vine maple!
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“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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