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Seriously awesome work. And pow on the glacier, that sounds delicious

Ay, I am back, but don't call, ha ha ha. Splitboard rapping sounds way too gangsta for me.
...in the dark,
on your bootlace!!
Above PRIVATE PROPERTY. Ha. 

Nice photos - brrrrrrrr.    Good weather window catch

Nicely done!  Sorry I didn't reply to your PM sooner earlier, I could have warned you about the sno-park at GCR too.

Outrageous solo roaming John. I think you need a pet photographer, maybe the goat....?

Another monster trip in the books! Multiple rapells usually let me out of a ski day! While you were on this trip I was skiing hippy dippy pow with 30 minute transitions! Seems like you have pretty well skied every side, great trip.

You booted out the Snot?
Nice work on a classic line

Thanks for the post . I was lucky enough to ski  it with D. Sheefer from Gunnison in April of 92. There was a summit party of about 50 locals celebrating the stability , sun and snow quality. Coming from the Methow ,  I could hardly breath at that elevation . Great people and memories .

Our group got a very late start we were able to break out of treeline but due to time restraints I was only able to snowboard the open area just below the summit and the trees where we came up. Snow on the way up is covered with fallen branches so the run was really short. I definitely want to go back now that the group broke a trail up. There is an avvy chute that would've been a nice run on the ridge and it would be easy to find the way back to the trail. No tracks whatsoever up there

Nice! How was the snow up there? Many tracks? How far were you able to snowboard down to the car before hiking out?

Here's some more photo's... still trying to figure this out, sorry.

i can only help you with where to not bring the dog. glad chmn. silas steered you and your lovely fido to a safe place.

We found some very nice longer untracked open slopes today with soft dry boot top powder, and a little mostly inconsequential crust that still allowed sweet turns. Exceeded expectations! Also found turnable schmoo on lower open south slope. Super steep with lots of extra kick turns seems to be the new uptrack style. But it was super easy to set new gentler track in the settled snow.

sorry, I never figured out how to post more than 3 pics...

from the view on top, Mt Crested Butte (the ski resort) is off to the left (east).  Whetstone is off to the right/south.  Whetstone is a beautiful and complex mountain with bowls and steep faces on most aspects.  All are laccoliths formed about 30M years ago.

Crested Butte is visible in the center.  Population is about 2K in the upper valley, and our nearest 'large' town is Gunnison, pop 6K.  Lots of BC to...

After all.  He's in a chair...and he's a man...he must be a chairman!

It was indeed but I needed to shed some holiday weight. The rain shadow is pretty evident up there. I will get the pics off this phone sometime later in the weekend.

Nice!