ryland_moore Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 Trip: Spring in the Wallowas - Date: 4/1/2007 Trip Report: Me and two friends set our compass due east to head to the land of big mountains and dry snow. Who says your only option this time of year is corn skiing?! We left Friday after work - one on AT, one on tele, and one on his new Voile split board. We hit the McCully Basin TH at about midnight and set up for a parking lot bivy. After an early alpine start, we hit the trailhead around 11am,under clear skies, and full of fresh coffee (Matt Wills is a total coffee snob). We hit the basin after an easy 4 mile skin in and set up camp and soon left for some nice fresh turns. We hit some untracked lines and were treated to about 7-8" of fresh pow. Are you kidding me? This is April! We skied until about 7:30 pm before heading all the way back to camp, fixed dinner, and then watched Episodes of South Park on Matt's iPod before turning in. It snowed that night another two inches of fresh but we awoke to blue skies and fresh snow. We skinned up after we played a few April Fool's jokes on each other and ripped it up again. Finally, it got a little warm and we decided to ski the whole way out the 4 miles back to the trailhead. The snow was getting warm and we had to shed a few layers to stay cool. Unfortunately Terminal Gravity was closed, but we did see some wildlife in the canyon between Wallowa and Elgin. All in all a great weekend with great friends and with fresh powder in April. We even met a guy from Utah who said the snow here was better than anything he's skied in the last three years out of Salt Lake. Can't beat the Wallowas! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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