[TR] Silver Peak Loop - Silver Fir Chair - Annette Lake trailhead 5/17/2009

[Jim]

Trip: Silver Peak Loop - Silver Fir Chair - Annette Lake trailhead

 

Date: 5/17/2009

 

Trip Report:

...or at least that was the plan. Several of us try to get this low elevation trip in before melt out while allowing a ski all the way to the JWT via the lake crossing and skiing the west side of the Annette Lake valley. We skied from the base of Silver Fir chair and through Windy Pass, up the clearcut and into the basin. The soft 12 in of snow on the west exposures was an indication that things had not quite firmed up from the recent accumulation.

 

 

 

 

 

We gained the ridge had lunch and dug a pit. There was about 6-10 inches of unconsolidated wet snow atop a firm base, with no obvious weak layer after several arm swings on the shovel, stomping, and prying. So we decided to cut a line and then watched 100 yrds of a snow slough slowly make its way down. After a few more turns with similar results we decided we would have to methodically cut the slope and then ski behind the creeping slide - and the skiing would not be so great anyway so we carried back up and skied out the way we came. Haven't seen it so loose this time of year - rats!

 

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