Young Mountain Turns

Voyage to Young Mountain, February 19th, 2006

A view of the Southern Windrivers (where I usually ski) from along a trail on the side of Limestone Mountian. The trail, when not covered in snow, might better know as the road into the Wild Iris climbing area.

There is no groomed snow machine trail into this area. You have to make your own. Somethin I usually don't do too much of. But since we punched one in the day before (to rescue a stranded sled) I thought I'd use it to go speck out some new possible lines. It's pretty side-hilly in some places. I think I tipped over twice on the way in. Oh, forgot- that's Beaver Creek X-country ski area in the way background.

Fresh powder trail that we punche din the day before on the road going down the backside of Limestone Mt.

Around the backside of Limestone Mt. looking towards Yound Mt. It's maybe about 6-8 miles or so in from the Beaver Creek ski area parking area- off the highway.

The polaris parked at the base of Young Mt. I took the old board "Burt" with me today , because I figured the snow pack wasn't that deep. Burt's not allergic to rocks. Ha!

A great view of Maxon Basin, Atlantice and Silas Canyon from up on Young Mt.

Finally, after 3o minutes or so of climbing- ready to try dropping.

It was okay, but not that great. It was big, but it wasn't really steep enough for as powdery as it was. Wasn't worth doing again.