Trip Date: April 19, 2007
After meeting up with some Telluride friends at the trailhead, we started the slogging at 5 AM, trying to stay on the La Plata trail until we found ourselves in La Plata Gulch around sunrise. Once in the gulch, we left the trail and followed the stream straight up to the peak, despite the howling headwind and unseasonably cold temps.
Approaching the peak. We booted up the obvious couloir splitting the summits and skied the shot directly off the lookers left summit.
The Telluride guys kicking in the bootpack....
The frontrangers bringing up the rear...
Brrrrrr..... Pi and Eric on the Southwest summit.
Huron(left) and Ice Mountain.
Looking off the summit into La Plata gulch. Mt Elbert in background.
Grizzly Peak and Snowmass in the background left.
Mike skiing off the summit.
Eric ripping it up.
The other Eric making turns.
The other Eric entering the crux choke.
Eric taking a different path.
Pi skiing out of the choke.
Blasting out of the bottom.
Getting ready to head out.
Gunning out of La Plata Gulch.
Overall, the skiing was pretty good and the ski out was very fast. A fun day all around.
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