{"id":127,"date":"2008-05-14T19:34:35","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T01:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=127"},"modified":"2008-05-14T19:34:35","modified_gmt":"2008-05-15T01:34:35","slug":"tr-chicago-basin-part-iii-windom-512","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/tr-chicago-basin-part-iii-windom-512\/","title":{"rendered":"TR: Chicago Basin Part III- Windom (5\/12)"},"content":{"rendered":"

TR: Chicago Basin Part III- Windom (14,082)<\/strong>
\n5-12-2008
\nFrank, Jordan, Brittany, Jarrett<\/p>\n

When we got down to the bottom of the face we turned around and began hiking up Windom. We climbed the ridge and skied the Widowmaker couloir.<\/p>\n

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The summit of Windom<\/p>\n

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To ski from the summit we traversed down and across the SW face back to the ridge. Jarret traversing.<\/p>\n

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We then walked a few steps back up to the mound of snow above the Widowmaker couloir.<\/p>\n

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Frank dropping into Widowmaker.<\/p>\n

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Jarrett.<\/p>\n

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Jordan.<\/p>\n

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Me.<\/p>\n

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Frank.<\/p>\n

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Once we were done with Widowmaker we still had a long way to go with lots of fun corn!<\/p>\n

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Again, we skied all the way to camp… Where after not falling the entire day, I promptly fell flat on my face 20 feet away from our tent \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

It was a great day. Out of all 3 peaks we had the best snow on Widowmakers so it was a great finish.<\/p>\n

The next day, we packed up camp headed back to the train.<\/p>\n

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The way down took less than 4 hours. Much nicer compared to the 6 hours on the way up. We were able to ski about half of the distance. The other half, it was much more helpful having gravity on our side.<\/p>\n

Jordan crossing the Animas to the train stop.<\/p>\n

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We waited for a few hours for the train to show up. While we were resting this guy showed up.<\/p>\n


\nHe stopped to chat and said, “The first time I ever went up these tracks Chris Davenport was standing right over there. Of course, I didn’t know who he was at the time…. Boy, I’ll tell ya, those were a bunch of hardened guys!”<\/p>\n

The man talked with us for a few minutes, then ran with his cart to get it started again, and off he went!<\/p>\n

After hours of playing silly games, the train arrived. We welcomed it, with all of it’s steam and smoke. It had been a great trip. But, now, it was time to go home!<\/p>\n

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