After the last few weeks of high pressure and warm, I had written off skiing at the pass. But apparently a storm came and went without registering on my radar, and left in its wake great alpine conditions. OK, let’s go skiing!<\/p>\n
Two guys from Golden and two from Revy met up at the discovery center on Saturday. We decided that Sifton N face was our goal. We wanted to go up the Grizzly Shoulder\/Little Sifton traverse route. We didn’t realize at the time, but it was because both Ian and I had already struggled up Hermit in post-Pineapple Express conditions and apparently it left a mark on our very souls. And not in a good way. So since we had two cars, we dropped one at Hermit trailhead and went up Grizzly Shoulder to struggle in much the same awful conditions below treeline. Eventually, snow got good, and the weather was unbeatable.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n And before long, we spotted our quarry:<\/p>\n