Mouth Morgan(12,500') - Nevahbe Ridge

 
The Nevahbe ridge off Mount Morgan North has a bunch of gullies facing east. They all look like great skis and a bunch of us went there late February 2002. Eric, Dan, Pedro, Dave, Allan Tanner and I did the approach from McGee Creek Road after having dug out and towed my truck... We started going up a little valley along the ridge until we found the gully we wanted to ski. It went up getting more narrow after a few hundred feet. The crux involved going past a short icefall (maybe 5-6 feet long) by rockclimbing on the side. Allan was no rockclimber and decided to turn back, as did Pedro later on. Dave, Eric, Dan and I kept going up a 45 degree ramp to the larger bowls sitting on top of it. We were booting up at that point but soon started skinning up again. Dave and Eric made it to the top and had lunch before enjoying some nice wintery snow on the top headwall. I stayed low since I was not feeling right with my new skis. Eric, Dave and Dan had to take a few tight turns on the narrow ramp before jumping the icefall. It was a lot of excitement! I downclimbed the thing as I did not feel comfortable skiing it down with my new light setup. I had to slide down the icefall, which was probably more scary!! 


        Javier climbing the icefall on the side

    Eric doing the same a little bit later... 


    Javier and Eric climbing the narrow ramp leading to the upper bowls. 


    Eric and Javier getting on some easier ground after climbing the crux ice fall and the narrow ramp 


    Dave at the summit 


   Eric at the summit, with Mount Morrison behind on the left. 


    Dave tackling the first turns on the summit headwall in wintery snow


    Dan skiing the crux gully 


    Eric jumping the icefall 


    My crappy technique to jump the waterfall...
 



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