Lookout Traverse

This weekend Brenda would be leading a two day trip out of the Wheeler Hut for the ACC. It was set up to be a next step for folks who had previously participated in one of her Beginner Backcountry trips. Unfortunately it had rained during the week again so we went up a day early to get a handle on the conditions.

Yup, dust-on-crust up to 2200m.



With some reasonable skiing above that.



Wolverine tracks at the col?



The upper part of the descent down into the Asulkan side wasn't too bad. But once we hit the Ravens? Oh man bad doesn't begin to describe it. It was the worst most diabolical breakable crust you can imagine. Full survival mode from top to bottom.

Oh well. No one got hurt which was a minor victory in itself. At least we could laugh about it over beers in the Wheeler Hut that evening.