Love the look of this mountain. It looks like it belongs in Mordor.


Skinners add a little perspective.



Ran into Towlie. (Thanks for setting the skintrack and congratulations on the little one.)




My car is somewhere down there.


The 45-minute wind storm between Towlie's descent and my own erased his tracks, leaving me a nice canvas to work from.


Tick!

divisadero,

great meeting ya out there. Wow, that windstorm was one of a kind! One minute it was warm and sunny, then it's all out 0 vis blow me down i can barely stand type of stuff. crazy. even after we skied down and hiked back to the car we could barely stand up at times. I felt bad leaving you up there. glad you got out of it ok.

I guess my friends said that even though we were ok in the upper gulley, down where they were in the plateau, the wind started long before hand.

great pics!

some east side beta:
seemed like snow level was ~8000ft or so near bishop, though we skiied down on one snow finger to 7800 or so on basin. on basin we had ~4 -6 inches of powder on top of the old rock hard base above 10,000 on northerly, but easterly was already freeze thaw.

virginia lakes road has a sign that said closed, but we could drive all the way just a hair shy of the pack station/base of dunderberg with a small 2-3 car pull off. 3-4ft of snow at that level. all of the passes including monitor were closed.

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^^^Likewise. That crust layer made it a pretty damn exhausting bootpack. I felt like I was trying to climb the mountain on a freaking stairmaster. I should have left the skis on. It's funny that that little mini-storm was almost perfectly timed with your descent. The winds continued for another 30 minutes or so. I decided to hunker down just below the top so that I wouldn't be blown over (literally). But as soon as I had dug myself a nice little platform, the sun was back out and the wind had stopped.