Winter is finally back. Last night it snowed about 5 inches with moderately strong southwest winds so we had to get out and hit some real powder. Tim, Steve, Trevor, and I headed up with the intent of skiing some lines off the backside of White Queen into Five Mile Basin. White Queen has a nice north facing bowl that offers a fantastic 800 foot run into Five Mile Basin. We took a few laps on this and then skied another north facing pillow field that we noticed initially on our way to the summit of the Queen. The powder was especially delicious since we'd all felt a little powder starved for the last two weeks. The powder was boot deep, some places deeper, and nice, cold, and dry. Love that coldsmoke. To get back to the car we decided to ski a line off the south face of White Queen that none of us had skied before. We had a long 2000 foot run back down to the road, but the powder wasn't deep enough to keep us from hitting the nasty melt-freeze crust formed over the past two weeks. All in all a good day in the mountains with good friends.
Steve enjoying winter again on our first run.
Joshua in the pillow field.
Steve on the lower half of the first run.
Tim hitting one of the pillows.
Trevor's turn.
Steve hitting three pillows in a row.
Joshua, Tim, and a random dude on the summit of White Queen.
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