The red line marks my decent approximately. The yellow
rectangles were planned ski routes. As I got lower the woods became impassible on skis.
The snow depth was more than sufficient, but the brush was too
thick to ski through. The blue line marks my retreat back
to the trail. It was only 300? meters or so, but was so difficult
that at times I was crawling to make any headway in the sometimes thigh deep snow.
My skis provided no help in the traverse as the brush was too thick
and the terrain too steep. I have to admit that there were two moments
when it seemed I'd be spending a long cold night up there before finding the trail.
Retracing my tracks 600m. or so back to the cache uphill was my last resort,
going laterally 300m. was difficult enough.
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