January 25 - 26 - Cole, Zac, and I went camping in upper White Pine in Little Cottonwood Canyon and made the most of conditions that no one else wants to ski. The thing is....... it's always good, but sometimes you just have to try a little harder.
Zac just got new skis... Volie V8's.
Zac and his new skis pointing it off Red Baldy.
I have been winter camping 2x. Both trips have been lacking in comfort. Last year during an intense snow storm Cole, Tad, and I spent one unprepared night cold and damp on top of Cardiff Pass. About 2 years ago, Dani, Kirsten, and I spent the night at the Diamond Fork hot springs, where we underestimated the mileage and it rained in January.
So this time we brought Zac to impart some of his winter camping experience from Alaska. Things went better..... Cole skiing into Silver Lake with Timpanogos in the background. We did 2 runs down this SE facing run into upper Silver Lake basin.
Cole returning for #2.
Zac and Cole on the summit of Red Stack/Red Top.
Cole with the American Fork Twins in the background and Regulator Johnson at Snowbird to the left.
Me opting to check out the skiers left chute.
Safely back at camp. Alpenglow on the LCC/BCC divide.
Our cozy campsite, complete with fire, seating, music, drinks, and food, a vast improvement and actually enjoyable hanging out.
Thank you to Lib for giving me this awesome Bivy!
Our cook station.
Day 2: After sleeping for entirely too long to avoid being up and about in the cold, we are back on top of Red Baldy via the NW shoulder. The plan is to ski the SW shot down to Silver Glance Lake.
Me, doing just that.
In order to drop back into White Pine on an actual ski run required traversing Red Baldy. I had been dreading this section all day, after doing it on Wednesday without my pack on.
Changing over for the final run down the Baldy Shoulder to grab the camp gear in our big packs and coast back to the car.
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