Two days earlier, while skiing Historic Donner Summit, we noticed that Castle Peak had impressive snow coverage on its south facing slopes. This area would be our destination.
Stev: Kendra: Spence on the Castle Peak bent tree slalom run: Spence starts another run… …and races down… Our first two runs took place on the patches in
(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