Adam and I tackled a winter ascent (during winter weather) of Granite mountain on Sunday. The snow was so stable that we were able to boot straight up the avalanche gully. That is one amazingly long sustained slope.

The ski down was somewhere between horrendous and terrible. Ice breakable crust, death cookie, scrapefest. As long as the day is safe, I always have fun.

I'm now on my way to Germany for work, which will roll into a week in a hut in the Austrian mountains, then a week in Geneva where we will ski France and Switzerland,then a few more days of work in Germany, and then straight to Utah for four days (I hear that there are mountains covered in pixie dust there).

As always, I'll take a few pictures. Cheers!