Route: South Slopes from Halfmoon Creek

Team: Christy, Ted

We were looking for a relatively “easy” day. A day earlier, we had just schlepped our stuff up to camp at the South Colony Lakes summer trailhead for the night, skied both the Crestone Needle and Humboldt Peak the following morning, and then broke our overnight camp and skied out to the truck and hit the road. We were tired but wanted to ski another peak, so the relatively straightforward South Slopes of Mount Massive was the call.

The morning after the Sangres double, we drove as high as we could on the Halfmoon Creek Road and then started up the South Slopes Route. Even though the conditions were much better than my last trip here in 2005, this route always seems to drag on, and tired legs only make it worse.

The skiing was really good, though.