Leaving the house at 4 in the morning is usually hard for me but I woke up for this trip ready to go. After picking up our two partners (1 skier and 1 snowboarder) we were off driving toward Leavenworth and up Icicle Creek Road parking at the trail head at __. Once we packed up the skis on the pack we got underway with the fun part and started climbing straight out of the valley bushwhacking the whole way until hitting the snow line. I was the only one wearing shoes for the first part and was very happy about that fact! After hitting the snow line I swapped out the shoes and we started booting up the right side of the valley until hitting tree line where the snow was filled in enough to start skinning through large roller balls of a wet slide that had happened a week or two prior. Two hours later we had made it to Conney just before the Summit of Cannon and this is where we went wrong. We decided to go up onto a ridge that we though connected to the main summit instead of booting up one of the three couloirs to the summit. We got cliffed out on the ridge and ended up skiing straight back out the way we had come through crusty and super mushy snow. After a super long exit we finally made it back to the car at 9:30 and were back to the house at 12:45. LONG DAY!!
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Leaving the house at 4 in the morning is usually hard for me but I woke up for this trip ready to go. After picking up our two partners (1 skier and 1 snowboarder) we were off driving toward Leavenworth and up Icicle Creek Road parking at the trail head at __. Once we packed up the skis on the pack we got underway with the fun part and started climbing straight out of the valley bushwhacking the whole way until hitting the snow line. I was the only one wearing shoes for the first part and was very happy about that fact! After hitting the snow line I swapped out the shoes and we started booting up the right side of the valley until hitting tree line where the snow was filled in enough to start skinning through large roller balls of a wet slide that had happened a week or two prior. Two hours later we had made it to Conney just before the Summit of Cannon and this is where we went wrong. We decided to go up onto a ridge that we though connected to the main summit instead of booting up one of the three couloirs to the summit. We got cliffed out on the ridge and ended up skiing straight back out the way we had come through crusty and super mushy snow. After a super long exit we finally made it back to the car at 9:30 and were back to the house at 12:45. LONG DAY!!
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