St. Mary's Glacier, 7/31/09

On July 31 I went up to St. Mary's Glacier and went snowboarding. It started raining as soon as I got to the Glacier/Permanent Snowfield. It got progressively worse as I climbed, but I didn't hear any thunder until I reached the top and strapped into my bindings. I finished soaked, but it was fun, and totally worth it for some snowboarding in July.

Pictures from the Summer!

What a goof ball. this is on top of Independence pass.
On the slopes of Mt. Democrat. We ened up turning around this day. Came back a week later and hiked four 14ers.- Democrat, Cameron, Lincoln and Bross.

Lake Dillon from the slopes of Buffalo Mountain

Looking north from Buffalo

COOKIE!!!!

May pictures!

Its taken me a while to get this update ready, but here it is.

This picture is from a place called Mayflower Gulch. Its a pretty area to hike, and also a good spot for backcountry skiing and snowboarding.

This was taken back in mid May in the Monte Christo valley, I think.
Not the most flattering picture of me, but whatever, I guess thats what you get when you put the camera on a log for a self portrait.
Family picture from Crested Butte. Sophie provides the photo bomb by giving us a nice butt shot. Thanks girl.

More Friend's Hut pics

Second set of Friend's hut pics. For some reason this thing loads each new set of pictures on top of the last, so this goes from end to start, instead of like it should from start to finish.


I really had to mess with the Levels in this one to get the tracks to show up, and even now it is hard to make them out. It was nice.

I've still got more pictures to up load, but this is a start.
Slogging back up Pearl Pass to head down to the cars.

Star Peak. Some members of our party climbed this and rode the Coulior from the summit. I decided that I did not want because of the nasty weather. This picture was taken the day after they climbed it.


Group picture.

Adam

Friends Hut

Ross


Mike

Adam and myself

The Hut. This stove put out massive amounts of heat.

The top of a very long slog. Now the fun part... Snowboarding!

Pearl Pass

Ptarmagain

nearing the Top of Mace Saddle


Castle Peak

Skinning up Pearl Pass Road

Getting ready to start skinning.

Taken from the road a mile or so before we hit snow.