May 20, 2001, Silver Basin, Crystal Mountain

It was another good day in the mountains with excellent visibility. We booted from the ski area base to about half way up the Quicksilver run. We skinned into Silver Basin and to the Silver King-Threeway Peak ridge. A lot of the basin had been tracked by high marking snowmobilers. Skiing was similar to that of Van Trump Park yesterday, although we did find a few pockets of decent skiing. The slope from Bullion Basin to East Peak is almost unskiable now. Same for the S side of Pickhandle Point. No avalanche activity observed, but lots of recent discharges from rock faces entraining fair amounts of surface snow. Found a little corn descending Quicksilver, which with some hiking was skiable most of the way to the flats.

BrentH