Peak(s):	Crestone Peak - 14,299 feet Broken Hand Peak - 13,575 feet Mt. Princeton - 14,200 feet "Tigger Peak" - 13,272 feet
Date Posted:	05/21/2014
Date Climbed:	05/17/2014
Author:	bergsteigen
Additional Members:	joelmpaula

Don't put off for tomorrow, what you can do today
Day 1: Crestone Peak & Broken Hand Peak Trailhead: South Colony lakes Ski Route: Red Gully & Broken Dogleg Mileage: 13.8 Elevation Gain: 6,229' Partner: Joel It's noon on Friday, and both my partners have just bailed for legit reasons. It's at least the 3rd time I've planned a ski trip into the Crestones in the past month or so. Luck seems to be against me, but then I see Joel's post. Day tripping... F It, let's get it done! I'll go repeat it with Zach another time. It's a stellar line, those are worth repeating! So now I'm excited and can't sit still. Been waiting all season for a nice steep long line! Thankfully I only have a couple more hours at work till I'm driving south to camp at the lower trailhead for the night. It was a short night of sleep before Joel was knocking on my window, like 10 minutes early! We drove up in his Subi, since I don't have the skills to drive such a low clearance vehicle up such a rough road. It's why my truck is lifted! Geared up and on the trail before 3am. A snowbank on a hill stopped us from making the trailhead, but that won't be an issue in the evening (to turn around). Booted up the road and snowbanks until we transitioned to skinning. Split the difference on the old trail and the pack trail, and soon found ourselves approaching Broken Hand Pass for daybreak. Nothing like a bit of sunshine for inspiration! Skinning up to Broken Hand Pass in alpenglow Crestolita tempts again Needle looks fat! A very short stop on the top of the windy pass to go into ski mode to drop down to Cottonwood Lake. Then skins back on for the approach of the Red Gully. Here Max gets to play fetch with a lens cap 4 times, before it finally stops rolling down the icy slope. Back in the shade for a bit to take a longer break before the long gully ahead. Approaching the Red Gully Lower section looks a bit rough The first part of the gully goes pretty smoothly. The snow is still cold and fairly firm. The rocky narrows can be climbed on either side with a little bit of ice underneath. This is why I carry a hybrid ice ax with my whippet, as I don't have to worry about a little bit of ice on the route. We swap leads in this easier lower section, as the sun is slowly warming up the snow nicely. We can tell someone got to shred the snow soon after the big storm of last week, so the surface is rough in places. Easy booting in the lower gully Some WI2 in the constriction Long way up to the ridge Looking down and over to Blanca group Unfortunately the nice firm snow gives way to deep storm snow half way up. Our progress slows to a crawl, a painfully sloooow crawl. There's no talk of turning around, just how much farther to go. Hindsight being what it is, we thought later how it may have been easier to skin up this section, despite being steep. But maybe the glop monster would have attacked. As it was my crampons got a pound of snow on them with each step! Eventually, we made the short scramble up to the summit. Very short summit stay. Turn around in a circle with a camera, transition skis and boots, and down! And it was an exciting down! Scrambling with skis on with exposure... sure gets the heart racing! Summit Pano Summit skiing... Photo Credit: Joel If there are skis on my feet, there's a smile on my face -Photo Credit: Joel Looking down the steep upper face - Photo Credit: Joel Joel taking the higher road Once down below the scramble section, it was the steep face to ski down, then a traverse into the gully proper. I make my 2 tentative jump turns in snow that is like slush, and traverse into the cooler snow of the gully. Max immediately follows and now I wait for Joel to come down and across. Here we have 1,400' of gully to ski and 1,900' down to the lake. The first turns took a while to get used to the thicker snow. To think we missed 2' of pow by 2 days when freeinthehills rode it! But at least we are finally skiing downhill! The clouds have increased, so that will help keep the snow as it is, and not rapidly warming anymore. After the first half of the gully is skied, conditions improve and I feel a lot more comfortable with the snow. We still continue the standard safety ski procedures and tuck ourselves into pockets on the side of the gully, to watch each other ski. Joel has made at least a few hundred jump turns down the gully, as I make my odd, lift the upper ski and turn type jump turn. My short, early rise tip skis surely have made the day for me. Much less energetic than having to leave the snow surface completely every 5' to turn! Joel skiing the upper steep section First turns down the gully - Photo Credit: Joel Joel starting down the gully Joel and Max Joel and Max the skimo team! Skiing some smoother snow - Photo Credit: Joel Getting the hang of sloppy snow - Photo Credit: Joel Jump! Joel skiing into the lower gully Joel and Max happy to be nearing the base. Just have to find our exit! It was a great feeling to get to the lower basin and turn around and see the length of our climb and ski. Crestone Peak is one of my favorite peaks, even if sometimes it exhausts the heck out of me! A long food and drink break was required once done, since we didn't break since the start. Got a new chesty for my GoPro since the other one was duct taped together... pointed a bit too downward, gonna have to fix that on future missions! Sorry about the view of random gear and my lower half. Now I know my jump turns are a little odd, more of a single ski lift. At least I ended the video in the cutest way possible. You can tell how tired we got by the end! So, to simply climb back up to Broken Hand Pass and ski down, or go an extra 600-700' for Broken Hand Peak and an even steeper 2,000' ski line? Hmmm what's an extra 700' with friends? Why not! So up the fairly gentle grassy slope we go, to the kinda unremarkable summit above. At least, from below, the rocky prominences around the summit look so much more impressive. It's hard to say, the summit is to the right of that thing that looks fun to climb. Or go to that jumble of rocks there. But eventually we make it there, as the chilly wind picks up ice crystals and helps exfoliate our skin. On to the next peak, Broken Hand! Ah the Crestones! Looking down Broken Dogleg from the summit, is pretty exciting! It's pretty sustained steep for the first dogleg, then eases off. I measured the first part of the slope at 50. After that, I was more concerned with skiing on tired legs! My nimble and fat Skilogik Goddesses are absolutely brilliant for this terrain, well worth the extra 2kg! Looking down Broken Dogleg from the summit... Mmmm steep! Joel traversing into the top of the couloir, with the Needle behind Me jump turning the upper steep section - Photo Credit: Joel Joel's jump turn #500 or so After the steep upper section, we can relax a bit. Snow conditions are kinda punchy/breakable crust, but at least the steepness has eased off. It's hard now to even go a few hundred feet without stopping. But what doesn't kill us, makes us stronger! Joel skiing a mellower section with Humboldt behind Joel in the narrower choke section Looking back up at our route. Me skiing the lower apron with the Needle behind - Photo Credit: Joel My battery died soon after starting down the couloir, but I swapped it out after the first pitch. You don't need to see 50deg jump turns for 200' anyway Lots of knees! A view of our ski line from Humboldt last year, same weekend After the ski down Broken Dogleg, we head over to the lake and filter some water and take another break (maybe #4 of day?). I'm pretty happy with the day, even though it is far from over. On our ski down the trail/road, we see 2 porcupines, that we have to hold Max back from chasing. I also get to do an awesome face plant into the snow, as we ski down with heels free on the road. Too bad I had taken off the GoPro, that could have been funny! I never fall in steep zones. Only on flat-ish spots! Day 2: Mt Princeton & Tigger Peak Trailhead: Radio Towers on Mt Princeton Rd Ski Route: SE Face Mileage: 6.87 Elevation Gain: 3,870' Partner: Solo, with rides from Meg and Dave After Joel, Max and I part ways. I decide that at a minimum, I'll car camp at Princeton. I'm not driving home, and who knows, maybe I'll wake up refreshed? After finding every food place closed in Salida at 10:30, I hit up Walmart for some precooked bacon and precooked beef fajita meat. Mmmm salty! Not my usual post skimo meal, but beggars can't be choosers! I get to the lower 2WD trailhead about midnight. I see a very large fluffy black beast. Not a dog, definitely not a dog... So not willing to car camp with a bear roaming, I drive up the road with my lame low clearance Subi. I drive all the way to the Colorado Trail switchback and call it good. Far enough away from the bear for my sanity! Plus I just cut off some mileage and elevation gain! I wake up 5 hours later. Hmmm do I make a half-ass attempt to ski Princeton? My legs feel ok. Don't put off for tomorrow, what you can do today. A favorite saying from my great grandmother and grandmother. While I'm a classic procrastinator in my regular life, when it comes to skiing, climbing and hiking, my only procrastination is hitting the snooze button! Now, a stroke of extreme luck occurs. A car pulls up next to mine to ask if they can drive higher on the road. It's Meg and her friend Kimmy! Wow, I now get to save more miles and elevation gain by getting a ride up to the Radio Towers!!! Now my half-assed attempt has turned into a full-assed attempt! If only I didn't have to race up the peak, I could have hiked with them for a while. But I was now on a mission, a very slow mission. Legs were tired, but the desire was high! Mr Inappropriate Snowman Tracks up when leaving the road I took one look at the standard trail and couldn't motivate. I hated it the first time, I sure wasn't going to hike it with unbroken snow! Yuck! So instead I booted up the snowy ridge up Tigger Peak, and followed the ridge. A bit more mileage and elevation gain, but the going was much simpler and expedient! The snow was pretty bullet proof, and so I uncapped my whippet, in case I slipped on the hard snow. As I was making my way up, I saw 3 skiers/boarders arrive on the saddle below me. I wondered who they were, but I figured they would pass my slow tail on the way up, but they never did. Once on Tigger, it was a long ridge to go before the final slushy summit pitch. I kept looking back at the others, but it seems their upward progress was going pretty slow in the nasty talus. View of Princeton from Tigger The clouds and light wind were helping me out, keeping the snow cool. But on that final ascent up to the summit, the sun came out in full force, and I started to bake in my mountain ninja all black gear. Ate a Gu and tried to put it into another gear. Dang... 30 minutes too late on the summit again! Short summit stay once again. Spin in circle with camera, transition, ski! Summit pano north Looking down the ridge to my ski line The first section of ridge has only 2 very short sections of ridge that lack snow, until I get to the most continuous line into the basin. Then it's a couple steep turns until it eases off into a nice comfortable ski. A good Sunday afternoon type ski, when you have a Crestone ski hangover! Steep corniced ridge to traverse Looking back at the summit ridge line Looking down on my ski line, with Tigger in background The very middle part of the line narrows slightly with some big rocks poking through. Here it would seem that the snow is thinner, as the snow went from nice corn, to rollerballs, back to nice corn. So for anyone who likes to time their snow on the ski lines, plan an earlier start if you want avoid rollerballs in the middle. As I was making my way down, I could see 2 people making their way up to the summit from the Tigger - Princeton saddle, I really hoped it was Meg and Kimmy, and cheered them on! The snow was very good below, and it was hard to not enjoy myself! I let it rip in a few places to get a feel for what my skis could do. Middle basin was a bit weird, in that there were sections of firm breakable crust, followed by corn. It threw me around a bit, so I just worked on turning only in the corn sections. Looking back at the entire gully Looking back from the center of the basin Still ski traversing over to the saddle area A pretty long continuous ski! From the lowest point that I could ski on the Tigger side, I slowly contoured my way up. I had spotted a fairly rock free slope that would make travel easier than going up the crappy talus. On the traverse I saw the tracks of the 3 skier/boarder guys from that morning had made. Realizing that Princeton was out, they took their turns on the NE slope of Tigger in pretty decent conditions. A look back at Princeton from the saddle above the road Would have liked to ski this 30 minutes earlier, but it was still pretty stellar conditions. Enjoy! Saw the other skiers on the exit, and managed to catch up to them on the road out. Talked quite a bit, as we relaxed at the Radio Towers. Then they offered me a ride back to my vehicle. I absolutely love this 14er community! As a whole, I've only met a few bad apples, in a group of incredibly helpful and caring types. My GPS Tracks on Google Maps (made from a .GPX file upload): Login required to view this map... Thumbnails for uploaded photos (click to open slideshow):

Don't put off for tomorrow, what you can do today

Day 1: Crestone Peak & Broken Hand Peak

Trailhead: South Colony lakes
Ski Route: Red Gully & Broken Dogleg
Mileage: 13.8
Elevation Gain: 6,229'
Partner: Joel

It's noon on Friday, and both my partners have just bailed for legit reasons. It's at least the 3rd time I've planned a ski trip into the Crestones in the past month or so. Luck seems to be against me, but then I see Joel's post. Day tripping... F It, let's get it done! I'll go repeat it with Zach another time. It's a stellar line, those are worth repeating!

So now I'm excited and can't sit still. Been waiting all season for a nice steep long line! Thankfully I only have a couple more hours at work till I'm driving south to camp at the lower trailhead for the night.

It was a short night of sleep before Joel was knocking on my window, like 10 minutes early! We drove up in his Subi, since I don't have the skills to drive such a low clearance vehicle up such a rough road. It's why my truck is lifted! Geared up and on the trail before 3am. A snowbank on a hill stopped us from making the trailhead, but that won't be an issue in the evening (to turn around). Booted up the road and snowbanks until we transitioned to skinning. Split the difference on the old trail and the pack trail, and soon found ourselves approaching Broken Hand Pass for daybreak. Nothing like a bit of sunshine for inspiration!

Skinning up to Broken Hand Pass in alpenglow

Crestolita tempts again

A very short stop on the top of the windy pass to go into ski mode to drop down to Cottonwood Lake. Then skins back on for the approach of the Red Gully. Here Max gets to play fetch with a lens cap 4 times, before it finally stops rolling down the icy slope. Back in the shade for a bit to take a longer break before the long gully ahead.

The first part of the gully goes pretty smoothly. The snow is still cold and fairly firm. The rocky narrows can be climbed on either side with a little bit of ice underneath. This is why I carry a hybrid ice ax with my whippet, as I don't have to worry about a little bit of ice on the route. We swap leads in this easier lower section, as the sun is slowly warming up the snow nicely. We can tell someone got to shred the snow soon after the big storm of last week, so the surface is rough in places.

Unfortunately the nice firm snow gives way to deep storm snow half way up. Our progress slows to a crawl, a painfully sloooow crawl. There's no talk of turning around, just how much farther to go. Hindsight being what it is, we thought later how it may have been easier to skin up this section, despite being steep. But maybe the glop monster would have attacked. As it was my crampons got a pound of snow on them with each step!

Eventually, we made the short scramble up to the summit. Very short summit stay. Turn around in a circle with a camera, transition skis and boots, and down! And it was an exciting down! Scrambling with skis on with exposure... sure gets the heart racing!

If there are skis on my feet, there's a smile on my face -Photo Credit: Joel

Looking down the steep upper face - Photo Credit: Joel

Once down below the scramble section, it was the steep face to ski down, then a traverse into the gully proper. I make my 2 tentative jump turns in snow that is like slush, and traverse into the cooler snow of the gully. Max immediately follows and now I wait for Joel to come down and across. Here we have 1,400' of gully to ski and 1,900' down to the lake. The first turns took a while to get used to the thicker snow. To think we missed 2' of pow by 2 days when freeinthehills rode it! But at least we are finally skiing downhill! The clouds have increased, so that will help keep the snow as it is, and not rapidly warming anymore.

After the first half of the gully is skied, conditions improve and I feel a lot more comfortable with the snow. We still continue the standard safety ski procedures and tuck ourselves into pockets on the side of the gully, to watch each other ski. Joel has made at least a few hundred jump turns down the gully, as I make my odd, lift the upper ski and turn type jump turn. My short, early rise tip skis surely have made the day for me. Much less energetic than having to leave the snow surface completely every 5' to turn!

First turns down the gully - Photo Credit: Joel

Joel and Max the skimo team!

Skiing some smoother snow - Photo Credit: Joel

Getting the hang of sloppy snow - Photo Credit: Joel

Jump!

Joel and Max happy to be nearing the base. Just have to find our exit!

It was a great feeling to get to the lower basin and turn around and see the length of our climb and ski. Crestone Peak is one of my favorite peaks, even if sometimes it exhausts the heck out of me! A long food and drink break was required once done, since we didn't break since the start.

Got a new chesty for my GoPro since the other one was duct taped together... pointed a bit too downward, gonna have to fix that on future missions! Sorry about the view of random gear and my lower half. Now I know my jump turns are a little odd, more of a single ski lift. At least I ended the video in the cutest way possible. You can tell how tired we got by the end!

So, to simply climb back up to Broken Hand Pass and ski down, or go an extra 600-700' for Broken Hand Peak and an even steeper 2,000' ski line? Hmmm what's an extra 700' with friends? Why not!

So up the fairly gentle grassy slope we go, to the kinda unremarkable summit above. At least, from below, the rocky prominences around the summit look so much more impressive. It's hard to say, the summit is to the right of that thing that looks fun to climb. Or go to that jumble of rocks there. But eventually we make it there, as the chilly wind picks up ice crystals and helps exfoliate our skin.

Ah the Crestones!

Looking down Broken Dogleg from the summit, is pretty exciting! It's pretty sustained steep for the first dogleg, then eases off. I measured the first part of the slope at 50. After that, I was more concerned with skiing on tired legs! My nimble and fat Skilogik Goddesses are absolutely brilliant for this terrain, well worth the extra 2kg!

Looking down Broken Dogleg from the summit... Mmmm steep!

Joel traversing into the top of the couloir, with the Needle behind

Me jump turning the upper steep section - Photo Credit: Joel

After the steep upper section, we can relax a bit. Snow conditions are kinda punchy/breakable crust, but at least the steepness has eased off. It's hard now to even go a few hundred feet without stopping. But what doesn't kill us, makes us stronger!

Joel skiing a mellower section with Humboldt behind

Me skiing the lower apron with the Needle behind - Photo Credit: Joel

My battery died soon after starting down the couloir, but I swapped it out after the first pitch. You don't need to see 50deg jump turns for 200' anyway

Lots of knees!

A view of our ski line from Humboldt last year, same weekend

After the ski down Broken Dogleg, we head over to the lake and filter some water and take another break (maybe #4 of day?). I'm pretty happy with the day, even though it is far from over. On our ski down the trail/road, we see 2 porcupines, that we have to hold Max back from chasing. I also get to do an awesome face plant into the snow, as we ski down with heels free on the road. Too bad I had taken off the GoPro, that could have been funny! I never fall in steep zones. Only on flat-ish spots!

Day 2: Mt Princeton & Tigger Peak

Trailhead: Radio Towers on Mt Princeton Rd
Ski Route: SE Face
Mileage: 6.87
Elevation Gain: 3,870'
Partner: Solo, with rides from Meg and Dave

After Joel, Max and I part ways. I decide that at a minimum, I'll car camp at Princeton. I'm not driving home, and who knows, maybe I'll wake up refreshed? After finding every food place closed in Salida at 10:30, I hit up Walmart for some precooked bacon and precooked beef fajita meat. Mmmm salty! Not my usual post skimo meal, but beggars can't be choosers!

I get to the lower 2WD trailhead about midnight. I see a very large fluffy black beast. Not a dog, definitely not a dog... So not willing to car camp with a bear roaming, I drive up the road with my lame low clearance Subi. I drive all the way to the Colorado Trail switchback and call it good. Far enough away from the bear for my sanity! Plus I just cut off some mileage and elevation gain!

I wake up 5 hours later. Hmmm do I make a half-ass attempt to ski Princeton? My legs feel ok. Don't put off for tomorrow, what you can do today. A favorite saying from my great grandmother and grandmother. While I'm a classic procrastinator in my regular life, when it comes to skiing, climbing and hiking, my only procrastination is hitting the snooze button!

Now, a stroke of extreme luck occurs. A car pulls up next to mine to ask if they can drive higher on the road. It's Meg and her friend Kimmy! Wow, I now get to save more miles and elevation gain by getting a ride up to the Radio Towers!!! Now my half-assed attempt has turned into a full-assed attempt! If only I didn't have to race up the peak, I could have hiked with them for a while. But I was now on a mission, a very slow mission. Legs were tired, but the desire was high!

Mr Inappropriate Snowman

I took one look at the standard trail and couldn't motivate. I hated it the first time, I sure wasn't going to hike it with unbroken snow! Yuck! So instead I booted up the snowy ridge up Tigger Peak, and followed the ridge. A bit more mileage and elevation gain, but the going was much simpler and expedient! The snow was pretty bullet proof, and so I uncapped my whippet, in case I slipped on the hard snow. As I was making my way up, I saw 3 skiers/boarders arrive on the saddle below me. I wondered who they were, but I figured they would pass my slow tail on the way up, but they never did. Once on Tigger, it was a long ridge to go before the final slushy summit pitch. I kept looking back at the others, but it seems their upward progress was going pretty slow in the nasty talus.

The clouds and light wind were helping me out, keeping the snow cool. But on that final ascent up to the summit, the sun came out in full force, and I started to bake in my mountain ninja all black gear. Ate a Gu and tried to put it into another gear. Dang... 30 minutes too late on the summit again!

Short summit stay once again. Spin in circle with camera, transition, ski!

Summit pano north

The first section of ridge has only 2 very short sections of ridge that lack snow, until I get to the most continuous line into the basin. Then it's a couple steep turns until it eases off into a nice comfortable ski. A good Sunday afternoon type ski, when you have a Crestone ski hangover!

Looking down on my ski line, with Tigger in background

The very middle part of the line narrows slightly with some big rocks poking through. Here it would seem that the snow is thinner, as the snow went from nice corn, to rollerballs, back to nice corn. So for anyone who likes to time their snow on the ski lines, plan an earlier start if you want avoid rollerballs in the middle.

As I was making my way down, I could see 2 people making their way up to the summit from the Tigger - Princeton saddle, I really hoped it was Meg and Kimmy, and cheered them on!

The snow was very good below, and it was hard to not enjoy myself! I let it rip in a few places to get a feel for what my skis could do. Middle basin was a bit weird, in that there were sections of firm breakable crust, followed by corn. It threw me around a bit, so I just worked on turning only in the corn sections.

Looking back from the center of the basin

Still ski traversing over to the saddle area

From the lowest point that I could ski on the Tigger side, I slowly contoured my way up. I had spotted a fairly rock free slope that would make travel easier than going up the crappy talus. On the traverse I saw the tracks of the 3 skier/boarder guys from that morning had made. Realizing that Princeton was out, they took their turns on the NE slope of Tigger in pretty decent conditions.

A look back at Princeton from the saddle above the road

Would have liked to ski this 30 minutes earlier, but it was still pretty stellar conditions. Enjoy!

Saw the other skiers on the exit, and managed to catch up to them on the road out. Talked quite a bit, as we relaxed at the Radio Towers. Then they offered me a ride back to my vehicle. I absolutely love this 14er community! As a whole, I've only met a few bad apples, in a group of incredibly helpful and caring types.

My GPS Tracks on Google Maps (made from a .GPX file upload):

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Comments or Questions

Jay521	”Ah, the Crestones”... 5/21/2014 7:36pm That kinda says it all, doesn't it? Great pix as always.
lajohn	Princeton road 5/21/2014 9:11pm Looks like a great trip, the Crestones are amazing! How far up the road do you think a 4Runner could get right now?
forbins_mtn	freakin awesome! 5/22/2014 2:40am I love these TR's. Keep them coming! As an aspiring skier, I have spent so much time this spring watching everyone's videos and I can't wait to get out there next spring
swbackcountry	Awesome. 5/22/2014 3:24am Very inspiring. The dogleg especially. thanks for sharing.
Carl	Nice! 5/22/2014 4:22am DogLeg looks sweet. And the Needle does look ripe for the picking.
meg383	Nice weekend! 5/22/2014 4:44am Glad you had such a successful weekend and that we happened upon ya at such great timing on the road! Great work girl
scramble	beast! 5/22/2014 5:43am that is all
Krullin_14ers	respect! 5/22/2014 9:03am love when I see some skiing. enjoyed the dog pics, and props on the k2 skis! Very detailed report...thanks!
bergsteigen	Thanks everyone 5/22/2014 5:46pm Jay521 - Nothing really compares to the Crestones! Nat - Dogleg was amazing! I knew a line existed, but am very glad that Joel knew more about it, and convinced to me to ski it. lajohn - A 4Runner can definitely make the Radio Towers now. Beyond that, it depends on the melting snow and such. The road narrows further above. forbins_mtn - Advice that I've heard, taken and given: Start with the easy short ones, and slowly work your way up. The learning curve is steep! swbackcountry - Happy to inspire! Carl - Very ripe! Just have to wait for weather and conditions... Meg - Wonderful weekend! Glad you persevered to the summit, despite the slush! Sara - And this coming from a beast in training Krullin_14ers - Max is a very good ski dog!
jmanner	I approve... 5/23/2014 12:55am of the music. Because, I know that's your main motivation for picking quality ski video tunes.
joelmpaula	We crushed it! 5/23/2014 2:42am What a long but great day. It was great to get out with you. The crestones are such an unreal place to go ski. Hope to get out with you Again.
EatinHardtack	Best quote of this TR 5/23/2014 3:41am ”I'll repeat this with Zach another time. It's a stellar line and worth repeating” Thanks for this. Looking forward to it when we can get it done after your list is finished Great write up. Oh and Broken Hand looks like a great ski, too bad it's not one of the lowest 13ers!
bergsteigen	Music 5/23/2014 6:03pm jmanner - Something tells me we listen to similar styles. At least this time you have 3 videos! Joel - Crushed it for sure! You can trail break 65% of the way for me any time Especially if you want to do 10K in a day! Zach - After ”skiing” Antero, you deserve some payback! Besides, I didn't get to relax on the summit at all, again! Is Crestolita low enough for you?
realhillboarding	Humboldt 5/24/2014 5:44pm Great work on the descents! My wife and I were thinking to ski humboldt next week (SE flank), but it looks a little dry in the backdrop of a few of those pics. Did you see anything that looked like it may still be skiable the first week of June? Thanks! adam
bergsteigen	Humboldt ski 5/27/2014 5:07pm I didn't get a good view of the gully itself. Much of the mountain looked pretty dry. Wildlobo71 was up there to hike the east ridge the day after me, and may have gotten a photo or have better beta for you.
SnowAlien	Congrats!!! 4/2/2015 7:45pm on a big weekend! Crestones do look fat, even the Needle. The bottom of the Red Gully sure looks interesting with all the extra ”features” . DogLeg couloir on BHP looks amazing - didn't know it was there. Strong work on Princeton - particularly after such a huge day on Saturday.
mountaingoat-G	nice, as usual 5/13/2015 8:01am thinking about Princeton myself, but hard to find the time.. Ug

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Day 1: Crestone Peak & Broken Hand Peak

Day 2: Mt Princeton & Tigger Peak

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