Tuckerman Time

This post is a little late, but I figured I'd post anyway.
Huckzone visited Tucks on Sat 4/30. The weather was nice in the AM, but forcasted increasing cloads, winds and rain/snow by mid afternoon. We headed up tuckerman's trail and reached the ravine by 11:00AM. It was still clear, but clouds were blowing in. The ravine had good coverage, in fact the trails were covered from half way up and the Sherborn trail was open part way down. This is good cause the less I have to walk, the better.

(Everyone on the way up Tucks Trail)

There was the first of the undermined snow in the chute area (middle ravine) starting to show. Deep gullies will form in the later spring and some of the chutes will become un-skiable. As Jay and I dug our ski boot toes into the steep hard pack snow and started our accent up the headwall I noticed a nice un-touched line to my right. The entrance was a little tech, with ubstructions and steep brush. An 8 foot rock/ice fall streched across the entrance of the un-touched chute. I imagine this is why it was not tracked yet, at 55+ degrees an 8 foot drop turns into a 20 foot free fall and a runout at brain warping speed.

(A look at Jay coming over the top of left gully, STEEP!)

When we gained about 500 vertical in the ravine we kicked a little landing into the steep wall and clicked in. Jay took a nice route down the middle shoot fighting light slough snow the whole way. I headed to skiers left to enter above the untracked chute. I managed to make my way through the top obstacles and off the rock/ice fall. The runout was sketchy and fast, real fast. 45 minutes up and 20 seconds down, what a day. One run later we were on our way down the sherburne.