Nice work!
I've skied underneath that buttress and never noticed water ice. Maybe kind of rare conditions?
This is the drainage that leads down to the Olivine mine. I would imagine that approaching with skis via the normal N Twin winter (ski) route would be most efficient albeit more vert than going straight up from the mine. The travel is generally easy. One would ascend to the bench above this buttress then ski down to access the ice, then return the same way.
In typical winter conditions the small flow in your 3rd pic is completely covered in snow and a nice short ski run.
Ran into JasonG in the parking lot on Monday. Really nice snow that day! I gave my new skis a slight stone grind too.
The town trails have been enjoyable since then.
There's a much nicer log crossing about 100 yards downstream of the parking area last I checked (about a month ago)
The blazes are sparse for most of the trail, maybe a few too many near the junction with the real trail
Good shit, I didn't see this TR until now, but I was there with some friends skiing around in the north bowls last week. It was pretty nice, despite the growing suncups. We did a little linkup of E & W Goat along with Twin Lakes Peak.
Sweet report! Heck of a lot of work getting up that thing compared to touring over from Herman area. I had a nice run in there in January.
Cool to hear some history. I wish those nordic trails had more consistent snow & grooming.