Red = up, Green = down.Right out of the box, it was noticeable to me how light the Altra Lone Peak 5.0 is compared to the other moderately cushioned trail shoes that I’ve worn. We could see our tracks from the supermarket, miles away in the valley. I took this photo from the town of Alpine, 6000 feet below. Zoomed-in view of Bighorn, with our tracks clearly visible. If you look close, you can see our tracks. Lone Peak (left), Heaven's Halfpipe (center), Bighorn Peak (right). hard to believe we just skied those two peaks, they look so far away from here. Walking out the last stretch back to the jeepīack at the jeep. It felt more like June than February.Ī look back from the meadow at 8,000 feet. still several thousand more feet of skiing to go the snow was turning to rollerballs on the steeper aspects, which means its time to head homeĪndrea skiing. Lone Peak is the high point in the background. You feel so far above the world up here.Īndrea ripping it down the south face of Bighorn On the summit of Bighorn, with Box Elder and Timpanogos behind meĪndrea on the summit, ready to grip it and rip it Transitioning back to uphill mode for the climb to Bighornīox Elder Peak.
You can't even see Lone Peak's summit from here. Easy to see why this is called Heaven's Halfpipe. lots of ski possibilitiesĪndrea skiing the gigantic South face of Lone PeakĬutting off the south face, and into the "Heaven's Halfpipe"Īndrea skiing under Bighorn Peak's western cliffsĪ couple thousand feet of nonstop turns. Don't slip here, because you would die.Īndrea relaxing on the top with a Diet Dew The cold fusion couloir is looking sweet.
Here's a 360 deep zoom panoramic I took from the top. Its an aesthetic peak, and its easy to see why we wanted to ski that one as well! The south face of Bighorn is behind me, above the cliffs. Big vertical relief (~6500 feet) down to the valley First we headed to the left, up the giant snowfield which is called "Heaven's Halfpipe"Īndrea near the top. The south face of Bighorn, hanging over the cliffs. Long approaches and obstacles like this = you don't see anyone when you ski in the Southern Wasatch We made it back before 5pm, and drove straight to Smith's to get some much-needed and well-deserved ice cream! From the valley below, we could see our ski tracks 6000 feet above us, which was really, really cool, and was a fitting end to a great day. From the top of Bighorn Peak, we skied about 4500 feet (my quads were burning!) until the snow started to thin out and we decided to carry the skis back to the car. Then we decided "What the heck, we're already up here, so we might as well climb/ski Bighorn Peak too!" So we started climbing again, up 2000 more feet to the summit of Bighorn. After hanging out on the summit for a half hour, we skied several thousand feet down the south face. We were standing on the high point in the center of that picture.). To give you an idea, here's what it looks like from the west. Lone Peak has 3 summits - the north summit is slightly higher than the south summit, but it requires a really sketchy traverse with double exposure (and not just minor exposure, we're talking thousand foot sheer cliffs. By noon we were standing on the south summit of Lone Peak (~11,250 feet). The approach was long, but the weather was warm (almost to the point of being downright HOT once we got above 8,000 feet and the sun was beating down!). After gaining just over 1,000 feet, we put on our boots and started skinning. We parked my jeep in a McMansion subdivision (elevation 5,400 feet) in the small town of Alpine, Utah, and with our skis A-framed on our backpacks, started walking up a dirt road at 7:30am. On this outing, we ended up climbing 7,929 feet! It beckons to us every day! Its often considered the hardest Wasatch 11,000 foot peak, simply because there is no short, easy way to get to it. I see it from work (so does Andrea here's the view from her office), on the drive home, and from home. That was an offer I couldn't turn down! :-) I stare at that mountain every single day and have been itching to climb/ski it since moving to SLC. Early in the week, with warm & sunny weather in the forecast, Andrea suggested that we take a shot at skiing Lone Peak. On Saturday (Feb 12, 2011) we went out looking for an adventure and ended up having another perfect day in the mountains. Lone Peak on the left, Bighorn Peak on the right, viewed from the town of Alpine
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