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Skiing Torrey's Peak 6/24/17

Climbed / skied Torrey's Peak via the Tuning Fork on an amazing blue bird day. Met Paul at 3:30am and headed up towards Bakersville. After negotiating a rough 4wd road and some creek crossings, we got as close as we could by vehicle and starting hiking at 6am. Another creek crossing on foot (w/o getting wet, btw) and then we switched to ski boots and crampons. Made it to the base of the Tuning Fork and started boot packing up. After getting to the top of the snow field ~10am the snow surface was still rock solid. We decided we had plenty of time to scramble up and tag the summit. Even after all that the snow hadn't really softened much. We waited a bit longer and finally decided to just start skiing. Luckily the snow softened up about midway down for some nice fun turns. Perfect day of summer skiing on a 14er!
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  • Getting to our starting point at sunrise
  • The Tuning Fork - normally a 3,000ft ski line. In it's current state it's maybe 2,700ft?
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  • We ended up skiing the right side of the 'Y'
  • Sun cups galore. Time to start boot packing up the snow field.
  • The last 500ft seemed never-ending!
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  • Had to scramble this scree field to tag the summit
  • On the ridge line heading towards the summit
  • Obligatory summit shot with the 14er crowds.
  • Gray's Peak in the background which seemed equally as busy.
  • View from the summit with the lower part of our ski line below.
  • More skiers heading up
  • Snow was softening up so we hung out a bit longer to let the sun do it's thing.
  • Finally found some softer snow midway down.
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  • Still skiing - my legs were tired!
  • Almost down
  • Looking back up
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