4-3-17 Mt Troy

Poking around on Mt Troy keeping slope angles low while the avy hazard persists.

3-16-17 Gastineau Peak and Troy

Morning lap up Gastineau Peak with a mixed bag of rime, wind affected pow, and trail skiing.  Then a lap up to the Dan Moller cabin with a mini lap of skiing up above it.  3.5-4ft of new now skiing well, for now, with seemingly good stability.

3-13-17 Dan Moller area

About two feet of new snow without wind.  Some natural slides on steep rollovers, but no collapsing in the snowpack like last week.  Maybe this storm cycle will remain mostly stable?

Great tree skiing, one of my favorite spots on a storm day.

3-2-17 Mt Troy

5" of rain, then a freeze, then 1" of snow an clear weather to facet that 1", then 18" of new with a bunch of wind.  Avy conditions  like I've never seen before.  Unreal how sensitive everything was.  We played it safe and found some nice powder in the trees.

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

1-15-17 Kowee Creek

Skinned up in pea soup and thrashed down through mashed potato snow.  Too wet and creepy to do much else.

12-24-16 Dan Moller Cabin

Short tour up near the Dan Moller Cabin to scope storm weather skiing terrain again.  Plenty of meadow skipping opportunities.

Mt Troy from above Dan Moller cabin.  This line looks kind of lame in the pic, but it's actually pretty cool.  Plenty of lines through the alders, which will probably fill in soon anyway.  It has about 1500 vertical of good skiing here on the east face.  The north face on the other side has some big bowls.

Mini golf lines above the cabin.  These are about 700-800ft shots.  The more open shots have sled traffic.

Looking down canyon from just above the cabin.  The approach is up that canyon on a sled track.

Dan Moller cabin.

Mt Roberts (3810ft) on the left with 3500ft of skiing to the valley.  And Sheep Mtn (4,238ft) on the right with a bit more vertical to the valley.  Huge, skiable faces with pretty easy approaches.