Medicine Bow Nordic Ski Patrol
Patrol Log: Saturday-Sunday, April 11-12, 1998: M. Allen
11 April 1998, 8:30 am - 2:00 pm, Snowy Range.   Skied around Brown's Peak.  From cabin on Towner Lake, skied to The Gap, then followed Shelf Lakes, continuing east-northeast to a point on the northeast end of Brown's Peak, at about 11,000 feet, roughly south of Rock Creek Point.  Continued south around the peak, paralleling the Sheep Lake Trail to Brooklyn Lake, then dropped to Little Brooklyn Lake and skied back over to Towner Lake.

Notes:

(1) Avalanche Activity. At South and North Gap Lakes there was evidence of recent avalanche activity on the face of Medicine Bow Peak.  We saw numerous snowmobilers "high-marking" between (!!) the fresh slides.

(2) Radio Contact.  Radio contact north of Brown's Peak was sporadic.  For about two miles starting at Shelf Lakes, I could contact neither VIS nor Jerry Hamann, who was skiing south of Brown's Peak at the time.  The Kennaday Peak repeater was not responding to my keying. I received traffic from a controlled-burn dispatch (Bridger Peak repeater?), and I could key a response from the Laramie Peak repeater, but nobody responded to my calls until I got far enough east for line-of-sight transmission with the Pole Mountain repeater.

12 April 1998, 9:30 am - 12:00 noon.  Skied from Towner Lake to Green Rock parking area via Telephone Creek, Mill Pond Lake, and Route 130.

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