bob_nielsen

Brown Kool-Aid. Another party seems to have skied at least the classic Ptarmigan traverse from south to north just before the solstice. Matt and I made it to Kool aid lake on June 22nd. We had a big day starting with getting down the Torment/Boston Basin col, playing cat and mouse with the climbing ranger in boston basin, saying good by to buddy Ed at Cascade Pass, passing the worrisome objective dangers under Mix-up peak, and finally sliding into Kool-aid lake on a saturday nite about 6:30, just in time for a bath and some laundry chores in the open outlet, while the western sky did it's thing. We noticed the ski tracks the next morning on our way to deal with the red ledge, right after I saw a pile of human waste, complete with toilet paper, that had been deposited right on the edge of where kool aid lake will make an appearance soon. There was plenty of open brush and rock bands below the lake bench in which to bury a pile. I was feeling great about being on skis along the traverse, and not adding to the impact on the heather that happens later in the year. If we all can't go out of our way to bury, hide, deposit in remote bushes, we'll be carrying heavy packs in, and heavy packs out, to say nothing of the water quailty at Kool-aid lake. What flavor is brown?