We let the more confident people in the group drop in first and then Christine edged in. I let her ski down a ways and then dropped in behind her. The conditions were tough - lots of chop in the upper couloir. Christine cautiously worked her way down and I did my best to limit just how much sluff I rained down on her by timing when I skied to when she was out of the line of fire. I was not entirely successful.

Lower down in the Forever Young couloir, and particularly as we transitioned into the fan below it, the snow actually began to get great, so having survived the upper portion, we could legitimately enjoy skiing the rest of the line.

From the bottom of the couloir, it's a quick and easy traverse back to the tree triangle and from there we made short work touring back up to the Asulkan Hut to grab our gear for the ski out.

To safely ski a line like Forever Young, you need a pretty amazing set of conditions - and the spring is when you normally get them. To get to ski Forever Young in mid-December was just incredibly fortunate, one of those gifts the mountains give you every once in a while and a pretty perfect birthday gift for Paul and Christine.