WBC: off trail wanderings

Trip date: Saturday Dec 24, 2022

Submitted by MaSid

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A pleasant surprise to arrive at 930 with -4 temp. You could feel the pent up sweat coming on! Nice to run into Ernie and gang early on. Meant to stick to the tracks, but couldn’t resist the meadows with the promise of some late morning sun and freshies, getting into the west meadow horse trail early. The ski packers had been doing there work, so had to venture further for the powder (between Tom snow and mountain view west). Packed some old tracks, extended a few and blazed some new stuff. About 1.5 ft in openish meadows with a good base and ankle to boot top snow. Managed to get a decent track in from Tom snow all the way to mountain view west without much bush wacking. Thin under the bigger trees of the forest, but minimal to link meadows. Good travel. Stickage on Tom snow (good tracks) after about 1230, so back to the main drag, finishing on mountain view, west crystal, loggers, east crystal and a Christmas shopping visit with trail hosts Steve and Michelle. Good times.