Frazier Basin

Strong winds ripped out of the North all morning. At times even nearly blowing me over if they caught me off balance. Little to no wind transported snow accumulating on the S face of pass between fairy lake and frazier basin (above exit gully). We skied a run down exit gully on mixed glacial ice from storm two weeks ago, and more recent chalky breakable windboard. Did not encounter any wind slabs cracking beyond our skis, despite several efforts at kicking off wind slabs. Our descent back to the fairy lake involved some walking downhill to avoid massacring our skis.

On a side note, in an older truck with decent tires we easily made it to the second parking lot along the fairy lake road, we could have easily gone a bit further, but would have maybe not quite made it to the flats below the lake. Some dedicated folks who gave it several attempts did finally make it though.