Paul and Laurie Sherman of Anacortes were spending President's day weekend in the Methow and decided to go out for a day of backcountry skiing with Larry.  The trio headed up into First Bowl after approximately 14" of new snow had fallen over the last few days.  The trailbreaking was deep, but the skiing promised to make our efforts well worthwhile.  Here Laurie and Paul get ready to drop in for our first run. The weather began quite cloudy so we stayed in the trees and...

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NCMG just finished its last Level 1 avalanche course of the season.  The weather cooperated really nicely offering us sunshine and creamy snow.  The snowpack is amazingly stable at the moment, but the skiing remains quite good.

Here Larry demonstrates a compression test as the group looks on before practicing this skill on their own.

Despite the recent lack of snow and all of this talk of El Nino we have still been finding some great skiing in the North Cascades.  Fun, cold, fast and silky - all with great stability!

Here Ray Thomas shreds an unnamed Coulior high in Huckleberry creek.