We started at the wrong TH (Cayuse Horse camp) and went back down the road for about a mile to park in the giant snowmobile parking lot.
We then took the Winter road, with some steep off-trail snowshoe travel to cut switchbacks. Due to late start, we got up to a ridge at 5000ft, then traversed across a relatively flat baby tree field into a burn area and up to a more prominent ridge at 5400 - for a 3000ft day.
At the point where we stopped on the ridge there were cornices on hiker's right and avalanche slope on the left. Beyond that, we could see the ridge up to 5600.
We went down partly the way we came, including some glissades, and then found an old snowmobile track to snowshoe the rest of the way down.
Gorgeous views and fun day all in all.
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