Union and Jove Peaks

[JoshK]

I was looking at these two commonly skied peaks just north of stevens pass. All the WA skiing "guidebooks" note both of them having "high avalanche danger" From the maps it looks like this would be true in the bowls on their various aspects but it seems like a forested and ridge route can be used to climb both peaks safely in more sketchy conditions.

 

Has anybody done this? Do the ridges and forests offer poor skiing to make it not worthwhile?

 

thanks,

-josh

[rat]

poor skiing on the southwest ridge of jove compared to its south face. you may find some tree skiing from jove down to lake janus. i can't recall if you can easily connect the ridge from union to jove so you may need to traverse the avy terrain below union/jove to get to the ridge. feck skied union a couple winters ago (check tr's) and didn't think it was that special.

[rat]

you may be on your way back to wonderful codorato so this info may not be all that helpful....

 

skied union on sunday. we found good steep tree and glade skiing with very nice snow. my standards are perhaps lower than feck's. you'll have to decide for youself whether the road approach is worth it. the uptrack should be fine for a few more days.

[DirtyHarry]

You have standards?

[rat]

lower than feck's and as we all know, feck's are pretty low.

 

shouldn't you be complaining somewhere? give a call when you want to fail on something again.

[DirtyHarry]

I don't complain. I whine.