Folger Peak, June 3, 2015
|We approached Folger Peak from the backside starting at Upper Highland Lake.
A view on the hike up of Highland Lakes and Hiram Peak:
Stev starts down one of the chutes off of Folger Peak’s summit:
Mike follows…
Stev continues down…
Video of Mike on our first two runs:
We bootpacked up to the saddle for our second run.
Mike…
Stev starting off of the saddle…
…making corn 8s…
…making more corn 8s…
We noticed more skiable chutes along the hike out. We decided to hike back up for another run.
Mike starts down…
Stev follows…
Mike continues…
Stev…
Video of Stev near the bottom of our third run:
The cloud and Mike are at similar angles:
Mike:
Stev gets some bonus turns on the traverse out:
Looking back at Folger Peak:
We skied a chute off of the summit, bootpacked up for another run from the saddle and skied the looker’s right chute of the double chutes in the center of this photo.