i got call the night before from brennan, who threw some options down on the table. He had never done jobs sister from heavenly so that was gonna be our choice for the day. after dropping one car at the top of high meadows we took off for stagecoach lodge. we don’t actually have privileges at heavenly so the discussion turned to turning around and marching up from high meadows. we knew it was a long day in a short time frame, but we both wanted to get our slog on, so up we went. brennan also has some words and pics on unofficialnetworks.com

around 8,000′ things got sticky in a miserable fashion. brennan not loving the slog right now

in fact, the glop was so bad we couldn’t wait to be marching up scree

brennan hadn’t had enough so he went for an extra walk down the ridgeline

i walked up too

the sun had left before we dropped in. brennan

i dropped through a mostly open bowl just off the peak

there was light at the end of the tunnel though

high angle (sorta) crust and low angle pow (sorta)
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