kevino Posted May 23, 2011 Posted May 23, 2011 Trip: Teanaway - Esmerlda Basin and Iron Pk Date: 5/21/2011 Trip Report: Good friends + skiing in the teanaway = great weekend. Living the High Life Weather moving in Chrissy making her first backcountry turns! Scott looking for a line we saw on the way up... Found it! Day 2...better weather Clouds rolling in as we reach the top Me getting some nice turns on the upper face Looking back at the upper face...you can kind of see our tracks Then we ran out of snow Gear Notes: hardshell Approach Notes: In my truck we easily made it to the Iron Pk TH. I'm sure in a day or two one will be able to drive to the large avalanche blocking the rd about 1 mile from the Esmerlda Basin TH Quote
wolfs Posted May 23, 2011 Posted May 23, 2011 Nice. I was up Bean Basin on 5/20, figuring on worsening weekend weather. When you did Iron, did you just head up the summer trail from TH? If so, about how many vertical feet til skinnable or at least skiable snow? I've thought about that approach up Iron as a way to ski down into Beverly and then over to Bills, as opposed to the long boring slog up Beverly Ck from the Beverly Bean TH. But eyeballing the Iron slope with the trail, it always seems to melt out pretty fast. Quote
kevino Posted May 23, 2011 Author Posted May 23, 2011 In the morning the snow was firm enough to provide good booting, so kept our skis on our packs until about 5200 ft. On the way down we skied till about where the trail gains the ridge - if that makes sense. We clicked out of our skis and walked about 15 mins back to my truck. ' Hope that helps. Round trip time was just under 3.5 hours. Quote
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