Back-Country Skiing in the Three Sisters Wilderness, 1999

The Three Sisters Wilderness offers exceptional back-country spring skiing. Here are several pictures from trips I made in May and June, 1999.

Cutting turns high on South Sister:

Above the Chambers Lakes area, Middle and North Sister in the background:

Out-running an avalanche on snowshoes (You have to run very fast!):

Another intrepid ski mountaineer looks forward with relish to the hike up to snowline: