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Rob, your innovative lighting skills definitely earned you the "Lumenation" screen name!

Good stuff. You need to amend rule #6 to include making sure your batteries in your headlight aren't dead - iPhone flashlight to the rescue... More photos of our Chikamin Peak tour

Sick! Way to take advantage of the window! We went up the week before and we were sketched out by the hang fire on the summit block and went for the western most line on the face instead. 

Those debris paths are huge! Impressive slides that crossed the creek from both Alta and Alaska choked with knocked over trees. We found a huge old growth down tree over the creek just before the Alta slide path you could skin and avoid those debris fields but they did put you under...

Solid endeavor, you gyus! Definitely bookmarking this one, and hope to retrace your steps at some point - thanks for the inspiro!

Awesome TR and pics--Thanks for sharing the stoke. Granite at sunset looks like a really good time!

Right on man! Love those 10 commandments.

What an awesome ski! Your buddy below the choke didn't seem worried to watch if you might fall and take him out! Inspiring trip. Nice work!

Was interested in getting up there this week, midday. If anyone's headed that way let me know.

Love the 410 pics. Yakima Peak looking treacherous in those conditions. :)

+1 to @mikerolfs' comment. :)

Just to help cement my judgement, can you confirm where you had to park?

I was just day-dreaming of skiing some of my favorite summer areas in winter with this snow drought reducing avalanche danger. Thank you for your report, which has brought me back to reality and saved me some disappointment! That road skinning photo tells a story! Looks like a beautiful camp though!

Give it a day or two for the melt freeze cycle to create real corn.

Mike has been witness to multiple outside shoulder/ head punch falls by me in this last desperate crust cycle. He has taken to saying “don’t get cocky” I don’t think it’s had the desired affect! 

Kam you are right. I should go back to the ski area with appropriate gear and see if it is more fun. I was on my biggest skis and they are not the right skis for hard groom.

Good work. Tough to find good snow now!

Thanks for sharing trip photos and cranking a few runs with me yesterday.

Any port in a storm!   Nice looking yard wolves!

"Almost corn", "buttery enough"... Sounds like you might have found the best snow in the state right now!

Wow, what a positive thinking tour! Ja-wreck even more so jeez!

Great write-up, thank you!  I traversed Crystal to White Pass Fri-Sun and found the same gunk at and below treeline.  It was a long haul that took a bit more time and energy then expected. Good call climbing back up to Crystal. 

Wow!  Not much more to say.  Those pictures are unreal.  Do you have a GPS track you can share?

Nice

Gr8 TR, moar pix nxt time plz. Gotta keep this place alive.

A few more from the Nooksak

Great trip, huge day, wonderful pictures, the hart of winter makes a trip like that all the more challenging. Thanks for the trip report.