4:30 wake up.
5:15 rendezvous.
6:00 trailhead, skins on.
7:30 first saddle, 1500 gain, 1.7 miles up. sunrise.
8:15 aspen glades and long shadows.
9:00 recon base, under the face.
10:15 final ridge. big exposure. a slip left would be bad (fatal?), running on hard steep crust.
10:30 final summit in view.
11:45 standing on the summit (left), 3100 gain, 3.5 miles. the line is rather implied by this angle, but i won't give away exactly how we sent it.
12:00 the entrance proves a bit tricky. (sorry Kate, can't resist)
12:05 Kate recovers and skis it to perfection. (this one is soft and I'm blaming it on the lens. the auto-focus totally bounced this time. I shouldn't have trusted it. I was shooting two cameras simultaneously at varied focal length, but it's a shame I didn't get this right.)
12:05 flying through the runout.
12:35 regroup at the bottom. Justin Sarah Kate Hazen. note the lines.
1:15 back at the saddle, we admire the tracks. Sarah put in the left line, super stylish, and earned photo of the day (not shown). Kate put in the upper-right chute (in shade). Justin's creeps into the bottom corner, direct from the summit.
1:30 back to the car.
7:45 bedtime??
