| Peak: | Bald Mountain |
| Route: | Northeast Gullies |
| Range: | Front |
| Posted By: | Chicago Transplant |
| Date of Info: | 4/20/2019 |
| Date Posted: | 4/22/2019 |
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Wanted to add a quick report for people looking to ski the northeast side of Bald. We were up there Saturday and the coverage is excellent. Snow was not quite what we expected, more of a chalky recycled powder for the first 1500 feet off the summit before transitioning to corn lower down. Easy to follow open trees out of the upper basin and along French Creek back to the meadow. Huge avy off the west side of Guyot left a lot of trees in the upper meadow along French Creek. The road to all the private cabins is plowed for about 2 miles above the locked winter gate. If you are creative and patient you can keep your skis on. I only did so because I was in my ski boots and didn't want to trash them on the dry road. Better to bring a change of footwear and walk the 2 miles in approach shoes. We ascended an east facing ridge line that is across from the gullies and finished on the upper north ridge at about 13,100'. We booted more of the that east ridge than necessary, you could probably skin to 12,800 or even all the way to the north ridge with enough switchbacking. In either case the upper north ridge would require booting, not really any practical way to skin it given one or two steep steps that are rock. Some people access the line from French Pass, but it is melted out, not sure about the ridge above the pass. Sorry for the photo order, I am not sure why they uploaded in a different order than I had selected them... Image 1: Overview on the way out, our ascent ridge across the foreground Image 2: Guyot avy debris Image 3: Looking down our line (skiers right gully off the summit) Image 4: Ascent Ridge Image 5: North Ridge     
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