This picture from bivouac.com demanded that skis be brought to the scene.

Hozomeen Mountain, North Peak.

Sky Sjue, Andy Traslin and I climbed from the Silver-Skagit Road (approached from near Hope, BC, Canada) and skied the NE Face of this peak. We encountered the feared and predicted “slurpee death” common in this area before the snowpack has completed its early-summer consolidation. We went anyway.

The peak as seen from the road.

Good morning! Sky surveys the work ahead. Hozomeen South peak on the left.

Climbing the crux. Sky's photo.

Sky ski patrols scary slurpee slop sometimes.

Skiing close to eternity. Sky photo.

Don't miss the bus.

The Pickets look like a fence of some kind.