Alpental

Apr 16, 2004
climbing up from piss passthe tootheating lunchgreat scott bowltntheading downyours truly

We took a couple of runs down International, which had a lot of nice soft moguls. We then ventured out into Martin Bowl and took a run. It had snowed above 4,000ft, which made skiing interesting, as the snow was very wet and sticky.

We decided to go into Great Scott Bowl for a final run of the day. I didn't have my skins with me, so Kenny (a snowboarder) and I hiked up from Piss Pass and then made our way to Pineapple, meeting up with the rest of the group who skinned up Great Scott. Getting to Pineapple proved to be a little difficult, as a lot of the snow had melted and we had to do a little climbing on rocks. Skinning up Great Scott would have been a better idea...

We sat on the rocks and ate lunch before making our way down the bowl around 5pm. Some people were setting up tents at the bottom and some climbers had just finished the Tooth. The conditions were decent, with the snow in the shade being significantly better.