Here's a quick video from 3/1/2012...Rylan and I went out skiing on Hidden Peak, We were a bit concerned with windloading up high, so we decided to stay low on the peak not venturing above the bench at about 8500 feet.
The report for the day was advising considerable avalanche danger, with the big problem being storm slabs stepping down to the weak buried layers from the sun/rain crusts from the past few weeks of clear and warm weather. We were able to make a few laps and ski some really nice low angle pow...
My friends were skiing a few miles north of us near Stanford rock, and triggered a big destructive slide that ended up killing Ben Brackett. I do not have first hand knowledge of their scenario, but I am pretty spooked by what happened to them. Rest in peace Benny.
