Skiing Mount Shasta, June 2023

Daniel and Pete skiing the West Face Gully of Mount Shasta in California.
Ultra-epic!
On the way up, we weren't too fond of crossing dry ground because we could see that Avalanche Gulch was snow from top to bottom. For a while we considered descending Avalanche Gulch instead of going back down the West Face Gully, but boy-howdy, I'm so glad we didn't.
The West Face Gully turned out to be one of the best descents of my entire life!

[@michaelboud9642]

Sweetness! Cool adventure, skiing, and beautiful scenery!

[@erinknudsen4345]

Insane! Looks amazing!!

[@roymeetsworld1]

Sick dude!!!

[@sheadurfee5524]

I love your videos. Keep it up.

[@blazesyka6527]

Is this a challenging ski run on the descent?

[@whatsomeguydoes9264]

When we descended, the conditions were really pretty ideal. If the conditions had been icier, it would have been pretty dangerous (whippet strongly recommended).

[@mbtravel7294]

Wow! that's gorgeous. How many vertical feet down would you say you were able to ski?

[@EnderWaterBender]

This is me on my other account and it was about 3300 ft of continuous descent, plus a bunch more traversing back to the trailhead but that was frequently interrupted by dirt and was more traverse than descent at times.

[@mbtravel7294]

@@EnderWaterBender Nice! 3300 tops most ski resorts. Sounds totally worth the hike up.

[@ReVoltaire]

I don't know if it's all the snow that ski resorts manufacture throughout the winter, but seeing pics of friends skiing the last weekend at Squaw/Alpine, the amount of remaining snow coverage at around 1/2 the elevation was pretty surprising compared with upper Shasta. Maybe the sun exposure and 24/7 winds really diminsh/thins the snowpack up there?