Balu Pass Avi Ride

Always wanted to check out Smart Minor? We made a trail for you. Great snow conditions on the way up. Thin crust underneath surface hoar above 1900 m (which skied fine). No instabilities encountered all day but it's all below treeline. The avi path we skied had already run so the ski down wasn't good until halfway down. Beautiful day though. If you intend to ski anything up there, do it soon, we put a reasonable uptrack up the treed shoulder to the "summit" which should save you a ton of effort. We used hip waders for the creek crossing.