1-23-18 Mt Jumbo - Jumbo Couloir

4" new in the muskeg allowed for skinning to the base near 1800ft where booting on old/new snow commenced.  Icy couloir with some nice sluff/fluff in it that covered the icy conditions below but still allowed for safe skiing with mostly stable snow.  Upper 100' of couloir avoided due to loading.

Looking up couloir

4-11-17 Jumbo Couloir

Skied the Jumbo Couloir and another billygoat line on the east aspect of Jumbo, as well as the peak to the south.

2-17-17 Mt Jumbo

5" of rain, then clear and cold, not a good time to try to ski the Jumbo Couloir.  Oh well, recon.

Downtown Juneau

Looking SE into Gastineau Channel and the Taku Inlet around the corner.

Left to right: Gastineau, Roberts, Sheep Mtn

Rime ice near top of Jumbo

Looking south towards Admiralty Island

Top....no wind, actually warm.

Skied the first few turns (Jumbo Couloir), but the wind had loaded it, then it rained and turned it into 45+ degree ice.  No thanks.  

Jumbo as seen from Gastineau Elementary

Hawthorne Peak

2-6-17 Mt Troy

Went to the heart of ski touring in Juneau today on Mt. Troy.  A very popular area by Juneau standards.  A couple skin tracks, but no humans other than our group.  Easy access, nice terrain for stormy days, easy in, easy out, good stuff.

Near the top of Mt. Troy with Mt Gastineau and Hawthorne Peak in the background.

Mt Ben Stewart in the background.

Downtown Juneau with Granite Creek and Mt Olds in background.

Hawthorne Peak

Mt Gastineau to Mt Roberts

Mt Troy with Admiralty Island mountains in background.

Mendenhall Towers in the background, hidden by Mt Wrather

Contemplating Mt Olds

Looking north into the Gastineau Channel

Mt Jumbo in the background, behind Lee's ski pole.  Gastineau Channel meeting Taku Inlet.

Potential rowdy line on the Nugget Towers.  

WNW aspect on Cairn Peak

1-22-16 Gastineau Peak

Dawn patrol, no, make that a night patrol, up Gastineau Peak.   Snowline was around 900ft to start skinning, but that's because the trees are so thick on the Mt Roberts trail.  Snow was basically ice, with my ski crampons not penetrating the "snow".  Pretty ridiculous, but skiable as long as it wasn't too steep.  Here come the rains.........stuff is going to get trashed below 1000ft I'd imagine.

Mt Jumbo over Douglas and the Gastineau Channel

Mt Juneau on the right.  Most of those couloirs cliff out into ice climbs.

Mt Juneau on the right, Douglas on the left.   Looking down NW ridge of Mt Gastineau.

12/15/16 Mt Jumbo

Thrashed my way up Mt Jumbo this morning.  Took the summer trail because I didn't know any better, and that sucked.  Found the winter exit on the way out.  Now it's dialed in.  Need more snow before the main couloir fills in.

GPS track (Yellow) for winter ascent.  Follows snowmobile route up gully, then up shoulder.  Some exposure to avy hazard.

Downtown Juneau

The joy of Devil's Club

Looking south from summit.

Looking at the confluence of the Gastineau Channel and  Taku Inlet.

12/14/2016 Dan Moller Cabin area

Quick tour up to the Dan Moller hut and above trying to put the pieces together before the weather goes bad and it's all obscured.  Tons of great, safe terrain on Douglas.  The higher peaks behind Juneau need to ripen up a bit before I want to get on that stuff.  Needs to be bomber, as most of it has huge exposure.