Trip: Mt. Shuksan - West Face - ski   Date: 2/21/2009   Trip Report: This truely was a sick descent in several ways. The face was 90% covered in shallow powder, and second - I had a pretty bad cold; I mention that not in narrsasistic glory, but rather to tell it how it was.   After chugging some cough syrup and sudafed I set out from the White Salmon lot around 5:00am and skinned up to hemispheres in the windless dawn, then skinned the arm for a ways to the poi