Feb 6 - In the neighborhood of the Phantom

Quotes from a day of wandering on the south side of Snoqualmie Mountain.  We practiced skiing on breakable crust, nice dust on hard base, and 5-6" of HEAVY mashed potatoes on top of chicken heads. 

"I have no aspirations of accomplishing anything great today." Rusty Knees in the truck on the way up.
"Is this an uptrack or a down track?" Moscawulff - Yes, visibility was that good.
" We're climbing due North" - JPLingo - Oh, that's why it's so dang steep.
"Hey this is a great area, let's lap this" Rusty Knees thinks but doesn't vocalize.

"Hey, I think we found the slot couloir" Moscawulff, looking down a steep chute.
" We're looking straight north" JP
" So is this the Slot or not?" MW
" Not" JP

"This is too steep for me." RK says.
" I'm scared out of my snowpants." RK thinks but doesn't vocalize.
"Maybe we should head down from here." MW
Head nodding yes and shaking no at the same time - RK

"Does this chute go?" RK
"Kind of cliffy." MW
"I'm thinking of shooting it" JP
"I'm going to throw up" RK thinks but doesn't vocalize.

"Hmmm, we're not anywhere near where I thought we were." MW
"Is that an uptrack or a downtrack?" JP
"Down usually solves all my problems" RK

"This snow sucks." MW tele wunderkind.
"This snow sucks." RK tele geezer.
"WhooHOOO!!" JP shoots past on his split board.

"Hey, here's the snow Lake trail. Should we go down it?" RK
"No, I think we should go this way." MW
"I guess we haven't wandered around enough."  RK says to the trees. But no one hears.

"This is too flat for me." JP
"This is too flat for me." MW
"WhoHOOO" RK puts his skins back on.

And so we managed to explore the whole south side of Snoqualmie, link some turns, link some crashes, get a great cardio workout, wash our skins in the creek, pass a multitude of snow shoers, and drink two pitchers of Alpental 68 porter.  Beats working!
Hopefully there will be no skiing photos from this trip.  This trip report would be worthless WITH pictures.