Took the cat track to powder hut and up to about 2100ft. Cat track exit is a bit harry. Needs more snow! Crust started at about 1600ft then snow becomes bottomless below that. Fun skiing above 1600ft. (Thanks to the second party for the skin track! Also – please don’t leave full beers in the  [ Read More ]

Active loading onto West/ Northwest slopes moving around a lot of the new dry snow!!  [ Read More ]

First trip of the season up Crow Creek. We toured to about 3000′ and dug three pits at 2800′. The winds from the past week have not been kind to Raggedtop, and we encountered ‘variable’ conditions. Supportable wind board, punchy wind slabs, and sastrugi on some places, a few choice morsels of protected snow still  [ Read More ]

Up the cat track, short tour in the trees, and then up to the cabin. It seemed like a good idea but the cat track had minimal snow (~6”) so hard going; logs, bushes, and occasional water on the trail. Pole tips were frozen balls of ice at times. Once out of the trees, snow  [ Read More ]

Raggedtop up track to 2400ft, dug a pit in a protected area to keep ourselves out of the wind chill. This makes the pit profile not entirely representative, as the wind was active in most other areas, having more and more impact as we climbed higher.  [ Read More ]