Deep powder at the end of March? What?! It was real and we’ve got pics to prove it. After (yet another) week of cold temperatures and consistent snowfall, Jeremy, Tim, and I went to scope out the slot. We were happy with our estimates of conditions and there was indeed about 20″ of new snow.

We thought there was no way we’d ski the thing because of avy danger, but we brought a rope and harness and Jeremy eagerly volunteered to drop in on belay and get the thing to slide. He got an unconsolidated slough of the top 3 inches to go, but other than that the snow seemed relatively stable, unconsolidated pow.

We looked at each other…smiling. “Let’s hit it!”

It was March 29, 2008 — one of the best ski days I’ve ever had…