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Great to see you're out trimming off the extra lbs.  Looks like we could have a great spring!

Great TR and photos.  Keep the reports coming.  I love touring the Eastern Sierra.  The last photo has a nice view of Laurel Mtn. at 11,400' in the background with the Mendenhall Couloir,4000vf, which is a dogleg right from a skiers perspective.

Awesome!! Thanks for the report.

Very nice. I love that run and the views from the top.

Nice work! Looks like it was a beautiful area to explore.

The second to last shot looking up the headwall is awesome!  Drool..

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This is such a great line, I'm sure it would get a lot more traffic if not for the relative remoteness.  You have to be pretty athletic I guess.

Not to contradict you, but it's almost shocking at how easy it is to get to this descent.  Of course, like you say, it's all relative.  That would be a burly ground up ascent mid-winte...

Ryan, I'm sorry for your loss.

This is such a great line, I'm sure it would get a lot more traffic if not for the relative remoteness.  You have to be pretty athletic I guess. I was really drooling at it once when I ascended part of it in winter conditions a few years ago, but it is steep enough that I would personally prefer to descend in such many-feet of powder. I don't like to ski when there is a lot of stress about self-arrest.

DKoelle, 
As there was only one other group we saw, I'm assuming it was you gave me the dried apple slice?  I appreciated meeting up with you at the bottom of the valley and your insights on the skin track across the valley to the Lichtenberg trail... I think you've inspired me to make that car to car trip.

Cheers!
-Rob

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My first rhubarb struedel ever.

That is the best desert in my book with a glass of ice cold milk.
Have a great time, stay out of trouble now Silas!

Nice run, nice struedel....is that coffee for the jet lag?
Now I know why you didn't answer when I PMed you about sking at Stevens Sunday.  8)

Awesome trip report!
I hate to drift your thread, but since you initiated it with the skins.
I find it weird that they responded by recommending the BD glue. Why don't they just improve their glue since they charge so much for skins?
I have had the same problems with the glue as they state and plan to reglue them with BD Gold when I see fit, but gotta do it before the spring slop otherwise they won't hold at all.  I hope that I don't have the same problem as yo...

Skins -haven't had issues with my old skins (Pomoca & BD).  I expect to maintain the skins, BUT was surprised to have a new skin act like it had nothing to begin with. 

At home I hosed the skin and as a test three others (different brand, mohair, syn, mixed). All repelled the water except the speedskins, they soaked the water up. 

The response from the mfg is, "...this is the first I’ve really heard of this issue".  (regarding extreme water abso...

A great TR and photos.  When I climbed and skied Mont Blanc, our snowpack was much fatter and it was about the third week of April.  The climb up the metal steps/chain to the Gran Mullets hut is still very vivid in my mind. The building of that hut still amazes me.  Even though we had a much fatter snowpack, I still remmeber the numerous holes and crevasses between the Gran Mullets and Vallot hut.  Your summit ridge photo is great. Thanks for rekindling some memories.  ;)

Fine work, Ryan and Eric. Nice TR and photos. That route is filled in so fat right now!

Ryan, it's really great to see that you're back in top ski-mountaineering form, and skiing a bunch of big lines this year throughout western North America, just over a year after your ACL tear.

I heard that you'd skied the Headwall, but didn't get a chance to ask you about it over the weekend (and forgot to yesterday evening). Any info on snow conditions, stability, e...

Awsome trip Randy, best days ever!

Check out some more pics and video that Dana put together on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4jUOVDA3YQ

Awesome! I'm very jealous.

I think you misread my report man.  Kristy unroped and soloed to the summit.  I think she got tired of rope team antics and decided she was better on her own.

Awesome work......Once again!!!!

Congratulations you guys, on a great line!  I was waiting for this TR to come along.

Hey silas, I did an overnight tour at St Anton there just last March. I hope you have a great time. Hope to see you again in the Mts or even Ivars someday!

Thanks for linking that Jake. I almost went up shelokum..looks like a beautiful way to go.  I hadn't done my homework with this one. I just went off my memory and a quick look at google earth before I walked out the door. I did go over huckleberry ridge. I was tempted to drop off that sub-peak. The exit out cedar was with skins on...mostly a sidehill with only a couple blowdowns.