I travel with backups of just about everything - two boards, extra bindings, two pairs of poles, etc. I managed to forget both pairs of poles this morning, so after arriving at the trail head at 9:15 with the Moose and Mrs. Moose, I had to bail and return at 10:00 with the poles. They'd made a partial lap off the Knob before joining me in heading up Grizzly Pass. We tried a lap off the head wall with little success as the wind had messed things up.

We gained the pass again and then dropped down to the meadows. I split skied the whole thing and linked turns. We recycled the up towards Herbst Glacier until we gained the Warden's Knob where we soon found a tree that the Moose liked. For reasons still not clear, he climbed it and I took a picture.

We dropped down the east aspect to the creek and found much better snow. From there we recycled my other up of a few days ago and dropped to the north, finding much better snow. One final climb up from boundary creek to the Knob and a lap down the Landing Strip where things are starting to get pretty tracked out, but there were still pockets of soft. Total up was 5,460 feet.