Duffey – Duke

Duffey – Duke

Decided to check out Duke via Casper. With enough snow its an easy but long trek in.

If your objective is Duke, keep going up the road as far as you can and head up the North Bowl just past the trees. Staying right will take you up Vantage which may not be good if its too sunny.

Heading up the road

Duke proper in the back. We didn’t go here because it was too late. To ski this face, might be better to go straight up it instead of up the west ridge and around the back. The Duke Couloir is in the rocky feature lookers left.

Duke Couloir

Data shot – Joffre North Bowl

Data Shot – Twin One

Data Shot – Howard – check out the cornice!

Data Shot – Twin One – We skied down the far lookers right line the next day

Duke mini ridge looking at West ridge and Twin One/Howard in the back

Trevor skinning up

Lars and Sharon on the Ridge (photo by Trigger Hoskins)

Heading down North facing sub ridge (photo by Trigger Hoskins)

Kevin on North facing sub ridge (photo by Trigger Hoskins)

Sharon on North facing sub ridge (photo by Trigger Hoskins)

Lars on North facing sub ridge (photo by Trigger Hoskins)

Lee on North facing sub ridge (photo by Trigger Hoskins)

Lars on North facing sub ridge (photo by Trigger Hoskins)

Lee on North facing sub ridge (photo by Trigger Hoskins)

Our tracks on the North facing sub ridge

Elevation

1400m climbing, 21km 7hrs 30min

Duffey – Duke at EveryTrail

Video of Duke and Cassiope

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