June 12th, 2010 brought us not far from home on Snoquaimie Pass to ski the Annette Lake Run. I was able to park almost at windy Pass about 15 to 20 cars from the snow. Awesome sunny day and a lot of folks making the best of Silver Peak’s fantastic late season snow pack. Getting a late start we ran into a few skiers on the way out with big smiles then got to say hello to Silas and his “Wild” group on their last ski towards the cars. We walked up the Silver Cirque towards the Summit to take a look at the West Face under the Summit towards Annette lake. Notice a group skinning back up and said they stopped at the tree line because of coverage. The West face not yielding the ski we were looking for on this trip we headed back down and skied the the Annette Lake Run but stayed skiers right towards the bottom to maximize our vert. We made it about 150-200 feet above the lake giving us a 1,500 vertical foot ski w/ a sustained slope in the neighborhood of 40 degrees the whole way down. SWEET until the long steep ski skin out. The reward at the top of the ridge was meeting a few new “friends of the mountains” that we reflected on ski memories just before the final 900 ft reward of good skiing to the rock shelter.
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