On New Years Day, I went on a backcountry tour near Alta with Jeff Johnson and Dwight Curry. We started skinning up from Alta to Cardiff Pass. From there we dropped into Cardiac Bowl on some OK snow. Then came a long skin up to Cardiac Pass. The view was worth the effort but the snow was very wind hammered to the trip down into the bowl left something to be desired. We then made our way back to Cardiff Pass with a short detour into the bowl. The run back to the car was over some very sketchy sun-baked crud. Not an epic day of Wasatch powder but fun nonetheless.
The start of the trip up to Cardiff Pass. Jeff in yellow, Dwight in black.
Surveying possible routes from Cardiff Pass.
The bottom of Cardiac bowl
From Cardiac Pass looking down into Cardiac Bowl and the less-than-stellar snow.
Jeff and Dwight living out their Eiger Sanction dreams and trying to summit Mt. Superior.
Panaorama from Cardiac Pass looking into Mill B South Fork and the Salt Lake Valley (covered in a winter inversion).
The start of the trip up to Cardiff Pass. Jeff in yellow, Dwight in black.
Surveying possible routes from Cardiff Pass.
The bottom of Cardiac bowl
From Cardiac Pass looking down into Cardiac Bowl and the less-than-stellar snow.
Jeff and Dwight living out their Eiger Sanction dreams and trying to summit Mt. Superior.
Panaorama from Cardiac Pass looking into Mill B South Fork and the Salt Lake Valley (covered in a winter inversion).
