January 21, 2019, Commonwealth Basin
1/21/19
WA Snoqualmie Pass
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Toured up Commonwealth basin to the top of the west kendall zone. Skin in was your typical icy forest affair, but soon we found increasing amounts of quality snow on top of a tough rain crust, which made for challenging skinning at times. Found variable pockets of thin wind slab 1-4", but nothing that seemed to propagate or cover large areas. Our plans to drop into silver creek basin were thwarted by increasingly clouds and low visibility, so we skiied the west side of kendall through the trees. Next we booted up the couloir that leads to the notch on Red mountains eastern ridge. some great snow in there too! Overall a fantastic day of exploration by ourselves in the wilderness.
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