TAY 33.3 (2020.69) - Koma Kulshan summit ski!

Successful summit ski of Koma Kulshan via the Squak glacier with Colin. We left the trailhead at 5:20am. Reached the summit by 12:03pm. Skied ~6000ft back to our shoes, and back to the car in 9:23.

The Squak glacier was in great shape! Ropes stayed in our packs. Crampons stayed in our packs. We had some mixed visibility including some skinning in a ping pong ball, and some skiing in a ping pong ball, but we also got great views throughout the day.

Some small cracks down low on the glacier, and some bigger cracks around 8500ft that required some thoughtful navigation. On the way up we crossed on a solid but shrinking snow bridge. On the way down we realized we could just ski around it.

The at the base of the Roman Wall there were a couple of big cracks, and the bergschrund was pretty wide open, but, there was plenty of room to navigate around them.

Going into this trip this felt like the highest consequence skiing I've yet done, first time skiing with big crevasses, but it actually felt pretty chill. We got almost 6000ft of excellent and fun turns out of it. We timed corn-o-clock almost perfectly. The top couple hundred feet was a little firm and we could have waited it out maybe another half hour, but honestly the rest of the skiing was so good al the way back to our shoes I wouldn't have changed a thing.

We did hit a whiteout on the ski down that lasted from ~8000ft until just above Crag View. Fortunately we'd gotten past the big ass cracks before it hit. We had boot paths, skin tracks, or old turns to follow the entire route.

All in all, an epic day of volcano skiing!