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With the new bicentennials ranked I enjoyed hiking the couple I hadn't been to yet, revisiting another to tag the actual summit. Before I knew it there was already snow in the sawatch and i had yet to do the last remaining peak, west apostle. With that in mind I thought it'd be fun to wait until spring and try to ski it.
I couldn't find any beta on if it was skiable (has this been skied before?) but saw supranihilest's TR in May and thought it looked possible with the amount of snow that the face got, traversing down and across into the "apostle couloir" on the opposite side of the mountain.
1 - First views
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2 - skinning up the basin
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3 - booting up apostle couloir
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4 - out of the couloir and onto the face, in the center of the photo there is a dip which required some side stepping to get out of
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5 - going up the lower face, the slope here was moderate
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6 - summit and getting our skis on, the tippy top was very narrow and didnt leave much room for getting ready
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7 - views at the top
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8 - the upper face was moderate in steepness, however below was a no fall area which added a bit of pucker factor
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9- past the upper face onto the lower face, the snow was great and angle eased
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10 & 11 - we waited at the top of the couloir for the snow to hopefully warm up, it didnt but there were some good turns anyways
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12 - Dan headed down the couloir
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13 - some nice snow
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14 - back on the flats
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Big thanks to Ben, Dan & Matt for joining me
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the approach was fine, was able to drive to winfield, walked about 10 minutes and then continuous snow from there. supranihilist's trip report has the topo details for the route
a great ski option in current snow conditions. Props for checking it out!
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