Little Cottonwood

We had to make the trip back up north this weekend so Alina could take a test for her teacher recertification. It was a quick weekend trip and we will probably not be back up that way for awhile. I met up with Creed and Nate Saturday morning and we skiied into some country I had not been to for a long time. Started at Alta went up to Catherines Pass, climbed the ridgeline to Tuscarora Peak, summited Mount Wolverine, traversed Wolverine Cirque and skiied down Patsy Marley Peak back to the cars. We actually found some decent snow off Catherines Pass and made a few runs, but everything up high was windblown and crusted. It is a little depressing to see how little snow there is in the Wasatch right now. There are stilll a lot logs and rocks lurking under the thin snowpack and unfortunatley my skis found a few of them.

Nate and I bootpacking up Mount Wolverine

Creed skiing off Catherines Pass

Breath deep the gathering gloom. The view down Little Cottonwood into the toxic soup of the Salt Lake Valley.