April 16, 2016, Roosevelt Circumnav, Snoq Pass

David, Sally and I left the Alpy lot at 8:45am, came back at 7:45pm, a kinda long day for us, easy-goers. My 2nd attempt to figure-eight Chair and Roosevelt peaks ended exactly as my first to take a short cut home over the Snow lake.  The snow cover is good everywhere except the notch to Chair's north slope, we took a short gully before and booted up a bit higher.  The north slope was good skiing for the upper half then typical avy debris, but soft enough for fun turning down to the lake.  The hard part was getting onto the upper Roosevelt slope, booting up the last short steep section was a real chore.  The north-west basin was pretty ski-able except the top 100' of stiff recent sloughs.  Overall it was a long, but fun tour.







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