Whitehorse Mountain in the North Cascades of Washington is one of the wildest easy access ski tours around. With direct access from Darrington the North face is some of the steeper and more open lines out there. If you are willing to deal with a nasty approach it is a great ski tour.
With large amounts of accumulation over the past few days and a forecast of partly sunny skies and lower freezing levels Hannah and myself were ready to tackle something big. The question was where to go and what area would deliver quality snow. Whatever it was it had to be north facing and top out at a relatively high elevation. After combing topos and passing ideas back and forth there was one peak that kept on coming up, Whitehorse right outside of Darrington had all the right components, a long North facing run, relatively easy access and A summit just under 7’000 feet.