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Warpigsinfin: February 9, 2010 Uphill: 5,000 ft. | Downhill: 5,000 ft.
I got my first "alpine start" of the winter, rising before the sun to tour up Cascade Canyon to Valhalla, a hanging canyon rimmed by the Grand Teton and Mount Owen. Getting up before the sun is never fun but, as usual, it proved worth it. Bitter cold inversion that morning... and we never saw a ray of light in Cascade, so it was a cold one.Shit crust on S and E facing slopes but anything NE to NW is still skiing great. Boot deep sugar with a little surface hoar.
It turned into a 12 hour mini-epic as a partner had skin troubles and the entire trip car to car includes about 15 miles of skinning... way too much of it on the flats. But the skiing was good and the views in Valhalla Canyon well worth 6 hours of flatlanding.
Checking out the ski potential in Cascade proved worthwhile as I got photos of several lines I'm looking forward to hitting this spring. Easy S facing ascents to pow on the N facing slopes dropping into Cascade. I got my first "alpine start" of the winter, rising before the sun to tour up Cascade Canyon to Valhalla, a hanging canyon rimmed by the Grand Teton and Mount Owen. Getting up before the sun is never fun but, as usual, it proved worth it. Bitter cold inversion that morning... and we never saw a ray of light in Cascade, so it was a cold one.
Shit crust on S and E facing slopes but anything NE to NW is still skiing great. Boot deep sugar with a little surface hoar.
It turned into a 12 hour mini-epic as a partner had skin troubles and the entire trip car to car includes about 15 miles of skinning... way too much of it on the flats. But the skiing was good and the views in Valhalla Canyon well worth 6 hours of flatlanding.
Checking out the ski potential in Cascade proved worthwhile as I got photos of several lines I'm looking forward to hitting this spring. Easy S facing ascents to pow on the N facing slopes dropping into Cascade.
Keep the Stoke Going!
Waheenie wrote on 02/11/10 at 5:23:13 pm pst:
that's a crazy photo of the trippy light behind the Grand! Nice.Sign Up for free or login to post comments.
