Mt. Wood, june lake

After doing Mt. Wood three years ago in the spring, i was left wondering what powder mid winter conditions would be like. My questions were answered by quickly with a resounding yeeeee as Buck, Zach and I dropped from the lookers right flank of Mt. Wood and shredded the snow off the face. This was a longer day, as the approach had to begin from where the road was closed close to June Lake. In the spring the June Lake loop opens cutting off a mile or two.

View mt. wood stoke here:  Extreme Mt. Wood

Pinner Couloir

After our success on bloody, we waited a little to long to do the pinner. Snow conditions were very variable but with 3,000 vert there were still many good turns. Buck and I were joined by Erik and Zach from mammoth lakes making the posse a strong four shredders. The east facing aspect had slid on the lower potions during a previous storm giving a bumpy ride, but the top section was creamy slightly melted crusty pow pow, that left us shouting for more. All in all a great day on Mt. Laurel
Video here: Pinner Couloir, mt. laurel out of covict lake

Bloody Mountain, mammoth lakes

After Buck and I met up in mammoth, the weather gods blessed us with around a foot of freshies in the upper elevations so we decided the most preferable line would be the bloody couloir. This line is relatively sheltered and I knew it was quite filled in already so we started at the trailhead at 8 and after overtaking a snowmobile skiing crew that had left before us we jetted up lauren lakes road. Getting to the base of the couloir in good time we were able to skin up past 11,000 in the couloir before it finally became to steep. After a solid bootpack up most of the couloir we turned around a few hundred feet from the top as the visibility was dropping the the snow conditions were deteriorating. The descent was all time: blower powder, no tracks, and lots of high fives. Hopefully we will be able to jump on this again soon. See the video at     Bloody Mountain

Another glorious day on Shasta

Another glorious day on Mt. Shasta viewed here:
              Red Banks Mt. Shasta

I had planned on skiing the trinity chutes but after arriving and seeing how icy they were i bailed and tried to piece together a few ribbons of wind bluffed snow

View the a Mt. Shasta Ice Harvest on Vimeo at
              Mt. Shasta Ice Harvest   

This was filmed on the upper regions of avalanche gulch, during a dry spell for mt. shasta. They had recieved a windblown couple of inches a few days previous but conditions were mostly poor.