This was actually really fun!
- Skiing down was GREAT, snow was reasonably sun-softened, not too big of sun cups
- Views were AMAZING
- Skinning up was decent, had to boot up the two steep sections of ascent
- Getting from top of the snow bowl to base of the rock climb was a bit challenging, that took longer than expected
- The bottom 1 mile flat section was more annoying than expected, some sections were a little annoyingly steep (down and up) on skins and somewhat brushy and dense, but not terrible
Timeline
- 5:56 AM – Left car, skinning up
- 8:46 AM – Top of saddle, taking off skis (2:50 hr car-to-saddle)
- 10:06 AM – Summit (4:10 hr car-to-summit)
- 10:46 AM – Done rappelling, hiking down
- 11:42 AM – Skiing down
- 11:58 AM – Done skiing, putting on skins
- 12:10 AM – Skinning
- 1:00 PM – Car (2:34 hr summit-to-car, 7:04 hr car-to-car)
Gear brought
- Skis/skins/poles
- Avy gear (although didn’t seem like there’d be any chance anything could slide anymore)
- 35m rope (even a 30m would prolly be fine)
- Nuts (didn’t use)
- #0.75 and #1 cam (used both)
- 4 alpine slings
- Trail runners for the climb (was useful, I climb 5.10 trad but trying the 5.6 roof section in ski boots would have probably sucked)
- Ice axe (was nice to have)