April is still the new March

Skinning up squirrel-huck gully.  That downed skinny log is the squirrel huck. No gap to huck anymore though with all this April snow!

I know I've said it before, but it's true. March was a total snow dud and April is giving a steady stream of nice snowfall...wet northwest type snow, 100% humidity (as seen in the above picture, maybe. there's a skier in that fog there).  Not much visibility at the top of the EPC and some slight crust on the anything-but-true-north aspects...so we headed to just that.  Amazing each time we go here! The gully always holds light powder. Funny thing today was that, even our noon-patrol start time didn't help our energy level.  It was like the fog somehow made it's way into my veins and slowed blood flow to my brain.  I tried a new traverse to get up to the top with fewer than 101 switchbacks but had no luck.  We ended up going right back to the gully - where we should've gone up in the first place (my bad) - and had just one nice but long run down back to the van where we ran in to Donny, and Hayride's co-worker.  Funny timing. They started at 8am, we started at noon, both got back to the car at 3.  They went way farther than us of course.

Hot dog!

POW! Some 8" of fresh!

Foggy below, freshies up high brah! Ok...enough of that...sorry.