Joes Garage

A beautiful day in the Blow Me Downs. A stable upper snow pack allowed a good ski tour into the Joe’s Garage area. A hard surface crust made for fast travel in places, but also made bigger slip and fall hazard in exposed terrain. We approached the bowl from below, and climbed to the rim on the east facing slopes. Thin and rocky in places, and with avalanche dabris covering a good portion of the slopes, we decided to ski around the top of the bowl to a mellow and well filled in North facing run called the Market Gully. A dusting of new snow over the crust made for predictable and enjoyable turns to valley bottom. The NE facing slopes of the bowl are mainly capped with large cornices. Mainly sunny and calm conditions. No new avalanches observed. Should have brought suntan lotion.