Little Superior

I parked my car in Big Cottonwood Canyon where Craig picked me up. We drove to LCC to meet up with Frankie. We started hiking about 11:15 from the fire station up toward Cardiff Pass. At the ridge we traveled west toward Mount Superior. Our objective was to get as close as possible to view possible the ski lines from the top and then ski out to BCC where my car was parked. We lunched on the ridge just before we booted to the top of Little Superior. The final boot was very steep but there was a set of boot tracks Frankie followed. After he and Craig booted up they made the footholds well pronounced for me. Even though it was the steepest, iciest path I had been on I felt pretty secure. There were some clouds starting to come into Little Cottonwood Canyon as we were making our final push up but by the time we got ready to ski they had blown on by. With the excellent visibility from the top we elected to ski off the south east face back to our cars in LCC. The first 3 or 4 turns were icy but conditions improved and we were skiing in already skied soft snow. There was a little sluffing at the top but the snow stabilized as we descended. I tried to video some but I couldn't see the screen in the bright sun. Needless to say my videography was lousy. Frankie on the other had got some nice still pics of our outing. Thanks Frankie. We had soft snow and fun skiing all the way to the road. We dropped onto the road about a mile away from our cars. Craig and I hiked on up to the cars but Frankie being the wiser of us all caught the bus. The clouds blew back in and covered the terrain that we had just skied so we couldn't really see our line that we had just descended. Craig and I went back to BCC to fetch my car. We then drove to the Black Diamond store where Craig bought some Whippet Poles and an ice axe for our next ski mountaineering adventure. What a hard day of climbing but so fulfilling in the end.