The Birthday Tour, April 19th, 2003
Where: Washington Pass
Who: Bill Frans, Phil Fortier, Greg Mueller, Jimmy O'Donnell, Mark Husbands, Vincent Payette, Sam Avaiusini
Click here for a map of our route: 
This was a bigger group than most of us were used to, so plans were laid via mass email to meet at the Park & Ride at the very early hour of 4:30am. The forecast called for rising freezing levels over the weekend, so we weren't too sure that precipitation would be white. But you never know unless you try...
What we found were broken clouds and nicely consolidated slopes; corn on the south slopes and some deeper stuff on the more northerly aspects.
This sequence of photos, courtesy of Jimmy:
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approach to S. Early Winters Spire
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Phil, Vincent, Bill and Mark
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Vincent and...the ghost of Bill!
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Phil, Golden Horn in the right background
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Phil and Vincent, SEWS
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Bill and Mark, SEWS
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Vincent, Phil, Mark and Bill, SEWS
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Bill, SEWS
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Greg, Sam and Vincent bootpack to Blue Peak Col
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Bill ponders his next line...
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Phil taking on some liquids
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the crew at the end of the 2nd run
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South slope of Blue Peak behind us. We made 2 runs on this before moving on
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Sam at the 2nd col; our first 2 runs behind
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our first 2 runs were pretty big
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Bill and Phil standin' still
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from the 2nd shoulder, most skied this line.
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view towards the exit saddle which takes us back to the hairpin east of Washington Pass
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the end of our 3rd run
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from our exit saddle, Sam's tracks visible on the central buttress
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