Here I am on the way up crow creek valley, the sun was shining |
Here's Tim and Betty starting the hike up. You can see the parking
lot for the trail head down and to the right. |
After a nice hike we left the main trail and up into the valley
toward the jewel glacier. Plenty of snow now to start skinning |
Climbed up into a white out cloud but made it to the top of the
glacier and waited for the clouds to clear. |
The clouds cleared off after a nice lunch, Here I am at the top
of the jewel glacier looking towards the milk glacier |
Tim and Betty at the top of the Jewel glacier looking down towards
Raven Valley |
Looking out at the milk Glacier Headwall, One of my favorite runs
in the area - 2000' of almost 50 deg steepness. |
Betty starting the ski down ripping tele turns. Was about an Inch
of heavy fresh snow on top of the smooth spring snow. |
I went with the Randonee gear so here I am skiing fixed heel style |
Here I am again skiing down the glacier rolls, Felt good to be on
skis again |
Tim Skiing down |
Tim skiing further down, notice the consistent tele form |
Towards the bottom we were able to link a few snow fields and make
it down to the lower part of the trail with only a few places of
no snow. Here's Tim milking turns near the bottom. |
Betty connecting the last bits of snow with a little grass skiing.
The Jewel Glacier is out of view in the valley behind the upper
middle part of the picture |
Its never enough skiing, The snow ended and we had to walk down
to the car.
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Tim cruising down the trail. Most of the skiing we did was in the
valley just in front of the large looking peak in the upper middle
of the picture, The top of the Jewel Glacier is a good deal higher
than anything in this photo. |