It was the time of the season where the lifts started running and the powder was accumulating. With the limited opening of the lower slopes at Crystal Mountain the upper mountain would still be untracked powder. Joe, Chris and I decided we would take advantage of the upper resort terrain being inaccessible via lifts and put in a skin track heading in a northerly direction. We would start from the base before skinning up to Green Valley. Once there we would push towards the Northback putting tracks in a run at a time.
