Back on Shasta, but the funky weather continues.

Dealing with a bit of funky weather on the long drive back home to WA.

I usually forget a lot of my urban runs but this was a good one. I often think about what my life would look like if I lived in SF/Bay Area, and maybe I’d come here quite a bit if I did.

A recovery day on the way to San Francisco. Absolutely bonkers seeing the amount of flooding in the park and pouring water in the falls. A lot of old-timers seemed to agree that this year was exceptional with the amount of snowfall that landed in the Sierra. Apologies for the repeat photos, still in awe at the novelty of it all.

Yep another obligatory tick of a classic ski line and the highest point of the contiguous U.S. I just wish I had oneee more day to do Mount Langley’s Northeast Couloir (didn’t have a truck) but not a bad way to wrap up skiing in the Sierra :)

I watched this video a while ago and I thought this line was one of the coolest in the Sierra. Did not meet expectations with the lower angle terrain and suboptimal ski conditions, but still great to check out the Dana Plateau regardless. Definitely need to come back to Tioga Pass a bit more next time.

I’m definitely a sucker for road lines and this one in particular catches your eye pretty easily when driving across the Eastern Sierra.

An easy last trip with the full crew to check out the June Lakes area.

This day had a bit more bs than anticipated but what a great line - definitely need to come back to this area to ski the other lines in the Twin Lakes area.

Mount Tom is one of the prominent mountains you see on the drive from Mammoth just before you turn the corner to Bishop. Most people opt to ski one of the east facing lines towards the valley, but a couple of us thought that the west facing stuff might be continuous with this kind of snow year.

Combining some of the miscellaneous days we had in Mammoth, where we stayed during this trip, into one post. We spent a couple days lapping the ridge to Sherwin Peak on the off days, as well as the prominent rock chute pictured below, but I was mostly awestruck by the amount of snow that fell on this mountain range over the winter, even if it was just the residual leftovers hanging on.

We’ve previously been mucking around the foothills in this range but now finally diving into the heart of the High Sierra.

A break from skiing to check out a local hot spring.

Still in the foothills of these giant peaks, but peeking a little into the High Sierra near one of my favorite summer spots.

Acclimitizing to the elevation and checking out the foothills of the Eastern Sierra. Maybe some of the best top to bottom corn I’ve ever skied!

The start of our Sierra ski trip. We might have arrived at an awkward time...

A nice day for peakbagging in between bouldering days.

A glorified backpacking trip to round out skiing the Washington volcanos. The ski descent was pretty mediocre, but it was otherwise cool to check out the changing season on Washington’s most remote volcano.

Just soaking in the views of the crevasses up close on this one. I hung back with one of a friend who was having a problem with the altitude and encouraged the other two to summit without else since I had already been up earlier this year. A bit disappointing, but this outing confirmed my ability to make turn around in practice, and was otherwise happy to explore this side of the mountain regardless of the outcome.

Little Tahoma is a satellite peak of Rainier, the pointy thing next to the main summit. I think it looks like a castle made of mahogany. Little T is actually the remnants of what used to be an even bigger volcano; it’s hard to imagine another a couple thousand feet on top of what Rainier is currently.