March 9, 2008, MRNP Tatoosh

It was a BIG day for the "geezers"  :D, thanks MD2020 for putting up with our slow pace, we missed you Brenda.  Started out at Narada Falls with cold temps and visions of breakable crusty snow.  Arriving at the trailhead by Reflection Lake the snow had softened quite nicely with the warming temps.  Our climb up towards Pinnacle Chute was smooth going and nice skinning conditions.  We kept saying we were sure passing up lots of great skiing, but our "geezer" schedule was tight so we kept moving.  Arriving at the base of Pinnacle Chute we did a quick snow pit evaluation.  There was a sheer layer at about 10" down, most likely from an earlier buried surface hoar layer, a crust down approx 2 to 2 1/2 feet.  It took considerable pounding to produce any results, almost 30 before any failure. Climbed Pinnacle Chute with sunny skies and warm temps, headed to Plummer, skiing the upper, smooth silky snow, skied down into Denman, then up and over to Lane Chute, the snow was fantastic, lots of wind packed powder everywhere, north aspects were getting a little heavy towards days end on lower Lane.  Climbed back to the road and ended our day with a final run on Narada face which skied very nice even late in the day  8).photos