with the recent TRs about north peak, a day off from work and the kids, and much desire to go ski something, we decided to hit up saddlebag lake and the most excellent terrain in the area. An early start was called for, so we rolled into camp at 10:15 and booked the 11:00 taxi.
without crampons or ice axe, we were nervous that we might back out upon reaching the north peak couloirs. As we walked along the ridge above the kook chutes we eyed the Y couloir on conness. that definitely looked doable and still worthy of the long drive and hike. now we just needed to keep dry. You can see the Y behind trash here
i believe it was this exact step that crushed the display of my cell phone.
cornice couloir(?) goes, but it is shitstained
headin up
and up
tahoetrash tops out
and goin down. me
tahoetrash
looking back up at the line
and then me heading back down to conness lakes
trash follows. the snow varied from good smooth corn to suncuppy hell at the bottom
this line on the se side of north peak should be called the italy chute or the boot chute or something
bag in the saddle again
goin big back at the trail
the fishing sucked that night, but the views were ok.
thursday the fishing was good, but the views sucked
took a little detour to check out the lundy lake area. beaver dam and lundy falls.
we also saw this, which appears to be near virginia lakes. does it has a name?
