After a weak winter and warm weather opened Monitor Pass the previous month, a recent storm briefly re-closed the pass for a few days. It reopened with some

Stev near the top of Leviathan Peak: Penny, Makisha, and Stev just below the Leviathan Peak Fire Lookout: Stev, Makisha and Penny: Stev: The branch slalom course gives

Penny: Makisha waiting for Stev to start skiing: Stev and his shadow… Stev, Penny and Makisha… Stev:

Hidden Glacier Spence and Kevin on the approach: Bella, Stev and Makisha on the way to Hidden Glacier: Dunderberg panorama: Bella watches John: Makisha and Penny wait for

Penny: Penny and Makisha: The edges of Hidden Glacier: Makisha: Stev: The snow felt like cotton candy on top of rock candy with real rocks added. Looking back

First, there was a recon mission the previous day, August 31st, to make sure that skiable snow would be available. The blue arrow points to the “October Patch”

Method Man Patch Stev on the approach: (The Method Man Patch can barely be seen just above the trees on looker’s right.) A few self-timer photos from my

Jack’s Glacier Kavanaugh Ridge panorama: (A small portion of Jack’s Glacier can be seen at the far left.) Stev starts the bootpack on Jack’s Glacier: The view from

(Scroll down for a write-up by Spence as well as a video.) Looking up at the “Bird of Prey” and “Tribble” patches on the drive up: Portions of

“Big L Chute” near Lower Conness Lake Makisha looks up at North Peak on the approach: Looking back from above Lower Conness Lake: Penny encourages Stev to get