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Thanks for one of the best TRs in a long time!

None of us had ever skied the Swath before. Standing on top, we could tell it would be a killer run in stable powder! But, unfortunately, it looked like what we had in store was more wind slabbed nastiness. We had encountered ski tracks by now and could see nice looking turns below. So we followed the tracks down the NE ridge of "Swath peak" into the forest and down. The ridge itself was sort of technical skiing, and the other guys walked down some. At one point, it looked like one of...

After crossing through another portal, we found ourselves atop a large, shady, and imposing cirque that drains into Glacier creek. From here, the brief description we had said to "maintain elevation", so we skinned northwards before getting stymied by steep terrain, backtracking, and making a descending traverse for a bit with skins off. This got us to the E buttress/ridge of peak 7804. The snow in this cirque was a lot more wind drifted than we had encountered so far, and we were on e...

The next descent was also amazing fluffy powder! I couldn't resist taking it a bit farther than optimal for traversing.

From our low point, we skinned and briefly booted up moderately steep slopes with small trees to gain the high cirque. I was somewhat apprehensive about this traverse, as I knew it faced East and we would be underneath slopes that could threaten us (and we were above cliffs). However, in retrospect the terrain is wide and only moderately steep. In any case, we m...

As we climbed Chatter creek, we observed plumes blowing off the peaks above, a sure sign of high winds. The snow we skinned on was dry powder, so we knew it would be moving with the wind. After one false start stymied by fat wind drifts, we found an okay route to gain the pass to Index creek drainage. An amazing but short descent on perfect protected powder took us to a camp among the larches just across the pass.

We set up Jack's mid and enjoyed beautiful sunset colors on Icicle...

I did my favorite skimo loop at Summit Central around noon today and conditions were excellent. Very smooth with just a little softening.

The Central Express chair was running as ski patrollers were removing stuff from the hill. Seemed like they must have had some friends or family up there because some non-patrollers were skiing the lifts as well.

Aaasen and I took the same trip on St. Patty's day. Didn't leave any Green Snow, but had a helluva time!

Your trip report and photos brings back great memories. :)

Very Interesting ! Ive done Silver peak basin just about every way possible including passing over and back thru Nordic Pass and the way you skied back. My preferred route is ski down to near power lines from grand junction then  a one skin up from the power lines as you described and then after skiing Silver pea Basin ski  back to near the same  transition  spot and skin back thru grand junction. Transition once in and once out, under the right conditions very little skating...

Welcome to TAY! Nice TR, it was a beautiful day! You can borrow my ski crampons next time.

Your trip reports are great to read, plus the "dumb and smart"parts. ;)

nice fotos

Nice!  Glad you got out with the Spiceman himself, I'm sure he kept the day flavorful.

Beauty! And in good conditions no less

author=skykilo link=topic=42726.msg167012#msg167012 date=1583366194]
Hey, this is cool! It's nice to see that get skied; it's a very memorable couloir.

The times I actually skied the route on the Triad, we used the col between Eldorado and the Triad to exit Marble Creek Cirque.

Kamtron, your post really confuses me. Can you point me toward a reference? 

Thank you Sky for the vision in finding suc...

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People do ski it! I skied the marbles twice last year as a consolation prize while turning back on the cumshot. Did manage to ski the cumshot once. Fred this was the weekends before and after meeting you on Whitehorse! I did decide to exit via marble creek once . That was bushy. Sky you'll recognize these views from in the cumshot.

Hey Sky, it's great to hear from you. Since the Hidden Lake entry in the Volken guidebook mentions the existence of Lost Marbles but does not provide any detail, I would assume that the author did not ski it.

This is RAD. nice work team, and thanks for the good content

Hey, this is cool! It's nice to see that get skied; it's a very memorable couloir.

The times I actually skied the route on the Triad, we used the col between Eldorado and the Triad to exit Marble Creek Cirque.

Kamtron, your post really confuses me. Can you point me toward a reference? 

Nice!!!

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On Sunday Fred Newman, Jeff Wong, Sean Rogerson and I skied Lost Marbles Couloir (Hidden Lake area). We were wondering if anyone else has skied this line since it was pioneered by Sky Sjue & friends back in 2007. The fact that you have to find the couloir from above, ski it “blind”, and then ascend back up it to exit will keep most people away. For those willing...

Nice working with you guys on this one. It was a hell of a day and a great objective! I think we all agreed that it was the hardest we have ever worked without going for a summit.

Please post pictures of overhanging open snow book, have only seen bad drawings of such animal in first edition of freedom of the hills, Of course Fred would of flashed it with 215cm wooden skis.

Well I will admit to being so old that the last time I was on a tour with M., who was my partner on this outing, M. may have been on his 215cm Phoenix telemark skis, which people of my vintage will recall were the shiznizzle...back in the 1880s or so...