Brewing some morning joe to get the engines running.
West Pass Creek slips by
The approach.
Tim Cron picks his way across a key handrail creek that helped us gain the main basin.
Trudging up game trails
Craig Wolfram contemplates his route through the talus.
Storm clouds envelop the peaks surrounding West Pass.
Talus traverse...
Tim Cron moves slowly down the scree slope.
Lost Mine Canyon creek after a solid freeze the night before.
Crossing...
Our line would follow the sickle-shaped couloir descending through the clouds into a long, meandering creek-bed half-pipe.
Tim Cron ski-crampons up the firm yet smooth surface.
Volcanic lava flows top several of the peaks across West Pass Creek.
The un-named peak 10,860 at the head of East Pass Creek.
Tim Cron and Craig Wolfram skin into the upper basin.
Ryan Peak and it's dramatic NW ridge
Peak 10,860 and 11,057 along the East Pass Creek divide.
Break time.
Ryan Peak.
The bootback...
Craig Wolfram nears the top of the ridge leading to the summit.
Craig checks the exposure...
Many high Boulder summits are blaneted by massive talus slopes.
Tim Cron picks his way up the summit ridge.
Tim Cron climbs in front of the N face of Peak 11,546
Tim Cron takes a break during a rare windless afternoon on a Boulder summit.
Craig....
Napping on the top of Peak 11,403
Oooooohhhhhhmmmmm!
Craig negotiates the frozen avi debris in the main coulor.
It was a loud and rattling morning...!
Craig Woldfram enjoys some warmer snow in the lower tube.
Weathered Log. How many years of weather does it take to create this?
End of the line, time to transition!
Cross training included agility and balance obstacles on the way out.
Are you fu**ing kidding me...!
Finishing a long ski tour with a soak in the Weat Pass tubs.
