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Peak(s):  Horseshoe Mountain  -  13,918 feet
Date Posted:  05/28/2016
Modified:  07/25/2017
Date Climbed:   05/28/2016
Author:  alexhenes
 Bootin Boudoir   

The night before skiing Horseshoe Mountain we slept in the back of our truck at the Leavick site. By 6:30am we had eaten breakfast and were skinning on Fourmile Creek Road. Our goal was to skin to the summit via Horseshoe's northeast ridge. The weather was perfect until we gained the ridge when the wind picked up, the clouds rolled in and we were in a whiteout unitl we reached the summit. The skin to the summit was staight forward and gentle. When we reached the summit we located the entrance to the Boudoir Couoir and waited about 10 minutes for the visibility to clear up. We skied two laps on Boudoir... booting up between laps. The snow was amazing. Our route covered 8.7 miles and 4100 vertical.

Pictures and commentary from out trip can be found at... Skiing Horseshoe Mountain Trip Report

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




Thumbnails for uploaded photos (click to open slideshow):
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Comments or Questions
Woodland
User
Boudoir Corn
6/4/2016 10:08am
Thanks for the inspiration! I went out on the 3rd and got some great corn conditions down Boudoir. Tough bootpack up though in soft, rotten snow. Cheers!


alexhenes
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Right on!!!
6/6/2016 12:20pm
Glad you had a good time... Horseshoe is a super fun place to ski



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