After the shakeup on Wetterhorn, Sean insisted he was alright with an attempt at San Luis the next morning. The mellow peak would make for a good day.

We camped at the Equity Mine trailhead, at the snow closure. Respecting Seans request to not repeat yesterdays predicted debacle- we left early. The ski line was a southwest facing slope which meant we had until mid day or so until the sun was warming the aspect enough to be risky.

The route is kind of round about, three separate climbs with traversing and contouring in between, eventually you gain the long southeast ridge which takes you all the way to the summit. We were up top on another cloudless day around 9:30- too early for the SW facing snow to soften, but also 100% safe in terms of avalanches, which was more important today.

The couloir was awesome, even if the snow was hard. It runs about 3000 vertical feet to the creek below, at a pretty mellow angle and real wide, kind of like the Cristo Couloir on Quandary Peak. We spent some time setting up camera shots that mimiced one in Lou Dawsons 14er guide. There, our friend Bob Perlmutter is featured in a full 80's getup, which in 1982 was pretty stylish, making familiar 'Perl-style' hop turns that anyone who has ever skied with Bob would recognize. The caption reads, "classic style in the Yawner gullies"- and its true. Nice work Bob.

Anyway, once you ski the couloir to its end some routefinding is involved and a good length skin back to San Luis Pass, most of it on the buried Colorado Trail. From there you descend back to the trailhead.

By the time we were back at the truck it was super hot like the day before. We drove back to Aspen all the while noticing the creeks swollen with snowmelt. It would need to get colder before venturing out again. In about a week that would happen and with it another great day, on North Maroon Peak.