Jan 9/10 Mt. Catherine

Hillary and Kelly on the summit of Mt. Catherine

 Made it home from work in time to get a lap up Mt. Catherine.  Snow was surprisingly good.  Good enough that I gave Kelly a call and I skied Catherine with Kelly and Hillary the next day.

Dec. 27, Snoqualmie Mt.

 

Aaron looks into the Slot Couloir

Hooked up with Seth and Aaron to do lap in their backyard.  Our 7am start was just late enough that a group of four had already broken trail up Snoqualmie Mountain.   We caught them as they prepared to drop into the slot couloir.   While waiting for our turn at the slot, we went ahead and tagged the summit of Snoqualmie.    Our lap into the slot was slightly frightful as the rain crust was quite strong.  One might even call it ice.  We scratched our turns into the couloir with great care to maintain good edge control with our skis.   It was about this time I noticed my new volkl blaze skis have quite a bit of sidecut.  Anyhow we survived the firm top and enjoyed a little bit better turns on the apron.   After climbing back to the frontside,  we headed up valley looking for alternative descents.   Luckily, Seth was the only one that got stuck in a ravine and had to boot his way up and out.  

Aaron

Kevin