Climbing vs Skiing

The last month or so we've been falling behind in the blogging. Finals and crappy weather have put a damper on the skiing adventures and led to more desert climbing outings than ski touring. Here's what we've been up to the last month.

Perfect powder on God's Lawnmower. For a few days at the end of March, we were lucky to have a lot of snow and stable conditions, especielly on North facing slopes. This was a fairly rare occurance and we wanted to take advantage of this. Nico and I got some epic powder turns down God's Lawnmower on March 25th. This was 3,000 feet of deep snow from the top of Kessler Peak right the road up Big Cottonwood Canyon. We were too excited with the skiing to get any pictures of the descent but here's a few artsy pictures Nico took on the climb up.

View from the top of Argenta

Snow on the top of Kessler Peak

Justin also got some sweet runs up in Wolverine Cirque.

Tips and Tails

Other than a few days taking some laps in Days fork and around Cardiff Pass, this ended our skiing adventures for a few weeks and started our climbing adventures. The next weekend was calling for poor weather so we thought to head down to Moab and try to ski Mount Tukuhnikivatz and do some climbing. After leaving around 2 in the morning to get to the La Sals in time to ski Tuklear Reaction, the Southwest couloir running off of Tuk, we got a few miles away from the trailhead before our Truck got stuck. Looks like we were a few weeks early.  Two hours later we got dug out and were headed back to the desert to climb some rocks. The rest of the weekend was spent climbing and canyoneering around moab, as well as most of the next weekend in the San Rafael Swell.

Getting stuck heading to Tuk

A bit of night canyoneering

1200' of fun 

A few pitches up

Some fun moves

Celebrating the top

Putterman's Sex Machine

Justin pulling the overhang

Hopefully the weather starts clearing up for some more Wasatch spring skiing in the next few weeks!

GH