Torreys Couloir Conditions

Dead Dog still in? or Emporer? anyone been up in the last few days?

thanks

Don't know personally but I saw this trip report from the weekend:

tetongravity.com/forums/sho…

There looks like a lot of snow up there but with the temps hitting in the 60's in the peaks and with the high winds it probably will be melting fast.

that makes me guess "in" :)

cool TR!

Was going to ski Dead Dog Sunday but with the wind making things less enjoyable (and possibly dangerous) we just skied Grays. Dead Dog looked a little thinner than usual for this time of year but it's definitely in.

thanks Carl - is the road to Stevens Gulch trailhead drivable? (we have a high clearance Jeep)

awesome. thanks!

So how was it? Is the dead dog in? and did you get both peaks?
I am thing of doing it Sat. Thanks

Aargh and now people torment me with skiing news. Thank god I'm moving to Colorado. Everythig in 3 states has been closed since March. Soon, (breathe into bag) soon. Lol!

update for what we found Sat the 20th:

In Dead Dog snow is in good shape for climbing, we were in the couloir around 7 am. Lots of small rocks starting to show in the snow, but it's good for another few days i'd guess. Rockfall seemd to tend to funnel off to climbers left - so we stayed right. Runnells starting to form up, from my inexperienced skier's perspective, it would have been a gnarly ski descent.

South Paw has a large cornice above it still.

Mike Pharris wrote:thanks Carl - is the road to Stevens Gulch trailhead drivable? (we have a high clearance Jeep)

Went up to the trailhead yesterday in a Honda Civic. From the Kelso Ridge we saw two parties on Dead Dog.

Tim Davis wrote: Went up to the trailhead yesterday in a Honda Civic. From the Kelso Ridge we saw two parties on Dead Dog.

The road is in great shape! Appears to have new gravel spread on it and the roughest part is where a bit of water is running across it, but it's not serious at all.