To the mountains

We skate skied Saturday but decided on an adventure Sunday. We had snowshoed out to Todd Lake before, and xc skied out there once, but we put together a good sized loop starting from Bachelor, going out to Todd Lake, up the Todd Ridge through a series of uphill switchbacks and traverses, then down the backside into the meadow and around. It looked like only one person had been the way we went because there was only one set of tracks past the lake and up the ridge. It was tough going. Then at the top, those tracks just ended. So route finding down the backside was up to us which was no big deal because it was such a clear day and you could get your bearings by always looking around. We had a great time and are still slowly getting better at the backcountry stuff. It took us almost 3 hours and we probably went 8 or 9 miles.

Broken Top from the East side of Lake Todd


MT Bachelor looms.



Another picture of Broken Top. The lake was completely snowed and frozen over of course.