Craig, Frankie and I planned originally to hike up grizzly Gulch but with the avalanche forecast rating at low we decided to hike the Weather Station Peak just east of Little Superior. The view from the Alta parking lot of the nice track in the southwest face were very inviting. The sun was out and it was even warmer than yesterday.The southwest face of the peak was in the shade. To our amatuer thinking the shade would protect the snow and make it better to turn in. We moved our vehicles down a little to be closer to the face we would be hiking to. We started hiking and I quickly realised that we should have moved our car's down further as we had to cross several small gullies. We were hiking is our shirts and were still working up a pretty good sweat. At about 9,500 feet the sun went behind a cloud and the wind started to pick up. We put our shells on and continued to traverse northwest. We hit the pass at 10,000 feet and then skinned up a couple hundred more feet for our transition to skiing.
After this ski we traversed back to the cars through stiff and crusty snow. Happy Birthday Craig!
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