Rose Knob Peak

Last weekend's storms gave us a nice fresh blanked of snow, especially above 8500' (we had some, uhmm, lots of rain too at the house at 7300' early in the storm). High pressure is moving in, avy danger is lowering, seems like a perfect time to do some skiing in the Mt Rose area (ie. home).

Started from my house at 7300', up to the summit at 9698'(altimeter)/9710'(map), I'll call it 2400' even :). Beautiful day, moderately gusty from the NW on the summit and the ridge. First 700' from the summit was nice powder. I then traversed high and skied the trees facing my first turns, the snow was lighter, the further down I got the more I hit the crust underneath. Bony getting out the last little bit, but overall a great ski run! Nice to ski powder in the South bowl (corn 17 days ago!), now it's time to move onto other aspects (and higher starts).

Skinning up @ home

Heading up the road

Freshies in the South Bowl

I wasn't first

Traversed high to the point on the left

Shadow wave, I love these trees, always good snow