April 10, 2004,  Kendall West Flank

After a late start, went up the Commonwealth Basin past Red Mt., following a set of skin tracks from either very early in the day or Friday - very easy and fast skinning on crusty semi-frozen corn. Made one unnecessary creek crossing over logs without incident, and went up the right side of the small bowl to look down on the Katwalk. Much less snow than usual for this time of year - skiing was marginal, with crust that broke through at the finish of each turn turning to unconsolidated corn mush lower down. Most exciting part of the trip was seeing tracks on the north facing chutes further south on Kendall Peak (the left part of the "twin chutes" at far right of the above picture), and a skin track heading up to the area along Silver Creek - any TAY people want to own up?