Castle Peak, June 3, 2013

(Approach and first part of our first run.)

Spence does “the point” at Castle Pass, elevation 7880′

Stev hiking up…

…and “storming the castle” with a bootpack…

Sequence of Stev on the skier’s left entrance:

Looking up at Spence making the skier’s left entrance…


…and continuing down…

(Second part of our first run.)

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(transitional runs)

Spence drops in…

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Looking up at our next destination:

(We would head to the chute on looker’s right, Spence skied two of the chutes on the left two weeks earlier.)

Spence bootpacking up…

…Stev following the bootpack…

Spence:

Sequence of Stev starting in…




…and continuing through the choke…

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(Return runs)

Castle Peak panorama:

(Our first run started just to looker’s right of the peak. We did transitional runs under the peak. Then we did a bootpack up one of the chutes at looker’s left.)

The “table top rock”

Stev:

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