Another old TR update. As I look back at my 14er ski project, Missouri stands out as the one with the best conditions, by a long shot. The North Face is a good, steep route which often has perfect powder conditions like this. This is one fourteener which should be on every skier’s list, regardless of whether or not they are interested in skiing all the fouteeners or not…
My friend Forrest Thorniley sent me a message regarding the North face Of Missouri in the Sawatch range and I decided it sounded like a good idea. My friends Scott Yost and Luke Shaffner decided to join in. All photos without the “biglines” watermark taken by Forrest..
The Arkansas valley got quite a lot of snow, and a lot of it was fogged in making for a beautiful morning. Forrest got this great shot of Princeton.
Some shots of the long skin up:
Which was followed by a boot pack:
All the while, we were eying our potential lines:
The last bit of the climb across the ridge was fun and interesting:
Off the top, Luke:
Scott:
Forrest:
I have a bunch of photos just like this one. Stop making so much snow spray around so I can get photos of you, Forrest 
Frank:
Scott, next pitch:
Luke:
Frank:
Forrest:
Some fun looking lines behind me:
The face, post-schralping:
Forrest even made a cool sequence:
Great photos, Forrest, wish I got some better ones of you. April is such a great month- pow, corn, bikes, whitewater, it’s all good.
