Skintrack stoke

[AlpiNord]

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[panchosdad]

[bennymac]

[Boissal]

Skinners and booters, they go together like wine and cheese!





(2nd pic courtesy of a buddy, I'm the trench digger)

[tang]

[Andyski]

modest stoke


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[YaBoyBlue]

[Boissal]

^^^ that must have been real fun to break!

[panchosdad]

Nice day for a walk in the woods.

[tang]

[rod9301]

French pyrenees. And a group of 7 skinned up the couloir and
Destroyed it. And of course they ended up not skiing it because?

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[tang]

^^^ Wow, they really went wall to wall there... musta also taken quite awhile

[idahospud]

Skinners and booters, they go together like wine and cheese!





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Damn! Boy Scout Couloir?

[Sutter]

Stormy skinner

[Ktow01]

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[Boissal]

Damn! Boy Scout Couloir?

Good eye! #1 is Boy Scout, #2 is Sickle.
We didn't do any homework on Boy Scout and went straight up it, the chokestone stopped us. Would probably have gone with some dry tooling shenanigans but were were a group of 5 with no gear (1 whippet total, no rope) so it seemed prudent to enjoy what we could instead of sketching our way through and probably falling over the thing on the way back down.

[mtnjam]

Good eye! #1 is Boy Scout, #2 is Sickle.
We didn't do any homework on Boy Scout and went straight up it, the chokestone stopped us. Would probably have gone with some dry tooling shenanigans but were were a group of 5 with no gear (1 whippet total, no rope) so it seemed prudent to enjoy what we could instead of sketching our way through and probably falling over the thing on the way back down.

Nice job on getting the Sickle, I was glassing it from Stanley on that day you and Brittney skied it. Couldn't have asked for better conditions on that day.

Surprised you didn't know about the chockstone in the Boyscout. Do you know the story of how that couloir got it's name?

[Boissal]

Nice job on getting the Sickle, I was glassing it from Stanley on that day you and Brittney skied it. Couldn't have asked for better conditions on that day.

Surprised you didn't know about the chockstone in the Boyscout. Do you know the story of how that couloir got it's name?

We really lucked out with the Sickle, conditions were incredible and we didn't expect to find it untouched given that there were people at Fishhook at the time.
I felt bad for Brit and her partner, they must have been a bit disappointed when they spotted a couple yahoos 100' ahead of them after breaking trail for hours without a track in sight. We also had Verts which made our life easier while they got to wallow in the unsupportable booter. They were both super psyched though, can't imagine a better pair to run into and team up with on the fly! No competition to top out first, just good vibes all around from people pumped to be in the mountains. We spent the whole time in the couloir shooting the shit and making a list of Small Lake City people we all knew.

Re: Boyscout, I think I read that it's named after all the boy scouts who camp at the head of the lake and gape at the most unreal-looking line anywhere but that isn't a very good story. Hope you have a better one!
I didn't know anything about the line, including the fact that it requires a rope and has to approached from the back. The rest of the crew was equally uninformed. I usually spend hours on Caltopo planning but for this trip made a conscious effort to go with the flow as conditions weren't supposed to be that great and we didn't expect everything to be good to go. We didn't have any plans to ski Boyscout until the morning of when I saw the name Grand Mogul on the map, looked out the window at the peak, and demanded we go stand on top.
There was definitely a moment of frustration when I snuck under the chokestone only to realize we weren't going to make it over the next crux. That didn't last though, we were in a rad spot with a good crew and had somehow managed to get up to that spot via one of the most egregious skinners I've ever done.

[mtnjam]

We really lucked out with the Sickle, conditions were incredible and we didn't expect to find it untouched given that there were people at Fishhook at the time.
I felt bad for Brit and her partner, they must have been a bit disappointed when they spotted a couple yahoos 100' ahead of them after breaking trail for hours without a track in sight. We also had Verts which made our life easier while they got to wallow in the unsupportable booter. They were both super psyched though, can't imagine a better pair to run into and team up with on the fly! No competition to top out first, just good vibes all around from people pumped to be in the mountains. We spent the whole time in the couloir shooting the shit and making a list of Small Lake City people we all knew.

Re: Boyscout, I think I read that it's named after all the boy scouts who camp at the head of the lake and gape at the most unreal-looking line anywhere but that isn't a very good story. Hope you have a better one!
I didn't know anything about the line, including the fact that it requires a rope and has to approached from the back. The rest of the crew was equally uninformed. I usually spend hours on Caltopo planning but for this trip made a conscious effort to go with the flow as conditions weren't supposed to be that great and we didn't expect everything to be good to go. We didn't have any plans to ski Boyscout until the morning of when I saw the name Grand Mogul on the map, looked out the window at the peak, and demanded we go stand on top.
There was definitely a moment of frustration when I snuck under the chokestone only to realize we weren't going to make it over the next crux. That didn't last though, we were in a rad spot with a good crew and had somehow managed to get up to that spot via one of the most egregious skinners I've ever done.

Right on. Was the other crew going up the Sickle from Stanley or was it the crew at Fishhook? Either way, glad it worked out, funny how the Sawtooths are like that sometimes, parties sometimes take different approaches to lines from different drainages.

The Boyscout Couloir was named by a couple of the guides back in the '80's after they had to go up the Boyscout and rescue some boyscouts that had gotten in WAY over their ability levels and were safely guided down.

[Boissal]

The Boyscout Couloir was named by a couple of the guides back in the '80's after they had to go up the Boyscout and rescue some boyscouts that had gotten in WAY over their ability levels and were safely guided down.

I feel like a whole lot of places should be named Boyscout ____. where have these yahoos not been rescued from by now?

Back on track, the disappearing skinner is a neat trick, thanks wind!

[kamtron]

volcanic stoke

[kootenayskier]

Trees are loaded in the local slack country.

[John_B]

Mid march pow!

[rockcreek]

[rockcreek]