Last couple ski adventures of the season

I had a few fun backcountry ski days before I packed up the bags from Utah. On April 18th, Doug and I had a fantastic day checking out a great spot in the Ogden Mountains that he wishes I not name. It was a beautiful spring day. Tons of sun, totally bluebird. Snow ended up being better than we expected with a mix of quasi-corn, creamy wet snow, and we even found a little bit of powder. We knew it was spring because we had to do a stream crossing.



Once we were safely across the river, we worked our way up higher, enjoying a fantastic ridgewalk on a lovely spring day.





With the warm temps from the previous day and the strong spring sun, the naturals were running on the steep slopes.



While skinning up the ridge we came across some nice quasi-corn that we figured we ought to get on before it turned to mash potatoes. Not a bad choice. Doug and Saringa with Ben Lomond in the background. I haven't put up a post about it yet, but we skied that NE face of Ben Lomond, just behind Saringa, back in March. It was rad.



After that quick lap we headed back up to explore the next drainage over.



We found a fun little coulior type thing to ski that actually held some bonafied powder in it.



Then worked our way over to a fun gladed area with this nice little rollover. Doug purposefully cut a few push-a-lanches. Fortunately his dog didn't chase them.



Then things opened up nicely into a wide open bowl with somewhat heavy but still decent snow.

Doug.




Joshua.



Doug and Saringa with some cool snow runnels beyond.



A closer look at the snow.



Then we broke trail up another ridge to get a view back at what we'd just skied and look over into some of the other adjacent canyons.







Needless to say, there is a lot of great skiing to be had around this area, it just requires a little bit more effort. A fantastic spring day to be out in the mountains.