Latest pictures from around these parts. Went up right behind the house with Robyn and members of our AIARE Level 1 that we held earlier this year. Explored some steep terrain in hopes of finding an easy up track. We didn’t get anything easy but the steep skinning and short bootpack at the top provided some EXCELLENT turns. Robyn is a natural in the up-track, looks as if she was born to tour!
A couple days later Sarah and I tried to access the goods behind the house again. Skinned through a wild old-growth stand and battled our way to the first bench… No luck on an easy up-track yet, but we did have an exciting run down an area that had me pointing pillow lines with little room for error next to an ice fall..
Photo of Jago Chute. The dotted line is our extension through the cirque to the upper ridge of what I am calling Brown’s Peak. Photo is courtesy of Aaron from his new book Chuting Valdez.
Yesterday I skied out Mineral Creek with Aaron and Stu to try and access a peak behind Jago Chute. 2.5 miles along the creek bottom led us to a 4,700 ft climb to a wild perch on a sweet spine. In the ONLY semi technical point of the climb my crampon came off my boot and provided momentary high blood pressure as I punched in for handholds. No summit option from where we were but the pow was memorable nonetheless and Jago Chute is top notch skiing from the cirque 2,000 ft or so to the valley bottom.
