Saturday, April 13, 2013

SW Aspect of Invisible mountain into Closed Canyon

Looking Westish. The top of Macaleb is in the upper right

2/3 up the ascent gully.
Start of descent gully. All of Mackay is visible in the valley. With the wind picking up and clouds forming, I passed on the summit in favor of skiing fine velvet over boiler plate.


Ascent marked in red, descent at green arrow
These routes lie between 8,500 and 11,000 feet on the South West Aspect of Invisible mountain. I had actually meant to ski the thin line leading into my ascent gully, oops!


The route as seen from town the day after I skied it. Overnight a spring storm had left a dusting and dropped temps back to below freezing soli. Pardon the low quality IPod photos.