June 8, 2008, Longs Pass - Fortune Mtn

What a beautiful day in the Teanaway. Brenda and I made a tour up through Longs Pass down to Ingalls Creek then up into Headlight Basin and down the southeast face of Fortune Mtn. This was the first time we had skied throgh Longs Pass, and weren't sure what to expect. Had a good strip of snow for skinning to Longs Pass, starting well below the Ingalls Pass junction. After a short down climb to avoid the steep cornice remnants at Longs Pass, the northeast slope skied very nice. Everywhere the 3" or so of new over the last couple days has really smoothed things out. We skied down towards Ingalls Crk and traversed around some rockbands at around 5600', the climbed up the gully before Headlight Crk. More northeast slopes down into Headlight Basin, then the final climb up Fortune and the final ski out. Approaches into the southeast face have been reset to where they were 2 weeks ago. Long day for us.