SunDial Yer Crazy

AS and I woke up in the dark on a beautiful spring day to ski the Mill B drainage in Big Cottonwood. Notes for next year; we started hiking from the Lake Blanche trailhead by headlamp at 4:45am. We walked 1.5 hours on the dirt trail until we hit the snowline. We booted/and skinned the ridge East of Yer Crazy which is a ski shot East of Dromedary Peak. The high altitude lichen was beautiful and vibrant against Utah's blue canvas.

AS approaching the top of the drainage, 10ish at this time and you can see how the snow had already softened up.

Looking back on the Mill B drainage and our route all the way from the road at the crease of the valley floor. Ask AS how he liked booting this section.

Left of photo: Little Cottonwood Canyon. Right of photo: Big Cottonwood Canyon. Background: The Great Salt Lake

This is a panormic I took of LCC, and some of the most famous ski lines in the West. I plan to use this photo as a reference for future adventures.

AS descending after much deserved corn turns. Time of descent noonish. At this point of the day West facing slopes were perfect corn, however, North facing was still too firm.

Our Yer Crazy variation ski route. The previous photo shows AS lovin turns on the upper shoulder in this photo indicated by the upper most red line. The route was alright, although you can see quite a bit of debris from previous days' warming. This debris compromised the quality of a few turns, but what the hell, we are skiing in late May.

Dirt walking back to the car!