BC skiing is a great excuse to not go climbing (and re-injure my shoulder) and Crazy Peak has been on my to do list for a long time. Hoping to ski the Crazy couloir, Merilee and I left Bozeman at 4:15am knowing we had a big day. There was too much snow to drive to the TH so we had to walk an extra 1.5hours round trip. It tooks us about 3 hours of miserable skinning to reach the lakes at the base of the mountain. I was feeling fairly defeated because the snow was sticking to my skins and each ski weighed 20lbs or more. Luckily, a crew of four was booting up the North face so we skied over to their bootpack and got in line. An eassy 1.5hour bootpack put us on top of the shoulder. It was too windy for us to tag the summit and both of us had been there already. A pretty steep, wind affected entry lead to some hero turns down in to the bowl.
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| Looking up at the false summit. Notice the wind scouring? |
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| The top of the ski line. Its all rocks to the false summit from here (5 mins?) |
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| Crazy Peak is on the left. The right skyline is the right edge of the North face. |
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