Feb. 4, Silver Peak, elev. 5,495

Frank booting for the summit. Lake Annette below

Summit shot

Looks kinda steep!

Kevin on top.

Frank skis the spring corn on the South slope of Silver

With variable snow conditions, decided to give Silver Peak a try. The approach is a little long but with a variety of slope aspects, figured we could find some good snow. Cheated a little, and took the new Silver Fir quad to gain acces to the upper cross country trail system. Followed the buff crosscountry trail all the way up to the main gulley that accesses Silver's north bowl. Gained the west ridge and looked down on Lake Annette. In previous attemps I had always been stymied in my attempts to traverse the Lake Annette side of the ridge to gain a more gentle and southerly route to the summit of Silver. Today the conditions were perfect and after a little booting we made the summit. Dropped off the South side directly from the summit. Neither Frank or I had skied these slopes. With good sun exposure turned out to be some sweet turns! Definitely neeed to come back on a powder day when the turns would be good all the way down to twin lakes. As it was we made a descending traverse back to windy pass, then over nordic pass and back to our cars at central. Frank said it had indeed been a circumnavigation of Silver Peak.