Saturday, January 5, 2013

Return to Buckeye

About a year after Dan's first visit to the Buckeye Drainage, he returned for some more skiing.


Snow this year is thin. Even worse than last year. Instead of skiing the "great low angle trees," Bruce and I decided to do a mega-tour around the Buckeye drainage.




In the distance of the photo below you can see the great low-angle trees that didn't have good coverage (stumps exposed 4 ft in the air!)


Near the summit of Buckeye Peak


The alternative low-angle skiing we spied for later in the day:


The route:


The reward:


Slogging out:



We need more snow!