Great morning skiing with Aaron Rice! Our original plan was to go up Broads to East
Twin then ski the NW couloir then come back up to the ridge and ski out
Stairs. These would all be new lines for
me and my first time climbing up Twins in the winter which proved to be very
exciting! After we dropped in off the top of East Twin, Aaron looked down the top of the
couloir and it looked like there was a cliff in the middle of it. Since neither of us had been there before we
skied down on the side a little ways. Further
down we could see that what we were first looking down was the right chute and
there was a way down that didn’t involve a cliff. After skiing the couloir down into upper Deaf
Smith we made our way back up to the ridge. We set a steep skinner and gained
the ridge above Diving Board and I was out of time for the day. We thought Stairs was further away than it
really was so we decided to just ski down Diving Board. We found out later one more short ridge climb and a traverse was all it would have taken to get to Stairs. Next time. This is an amazing area! Upper Deaf Smith is a very cool place and the
Twins are some of my favorite peaks!
Definitely spring conditions
Beautiful views on the way up. There is blue ice up there!
Looking up at East Twin and the ridge to get there
Some rock/snow/ice climbing on these slabs was a little scary but very fun and exciting!
Aaron had to climb it with one hand, two fingers, and a cast!
Aaron close to the summit
Summit views
Dropping in off the top
Aaron skiing down
My turn, mid hop turn
A better view of what we just skied
Looking down Diving Board
Glide cracks
I'll never look at this view from my backyard the same
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