I skied McLoughlin last year solo in pretty bad conditions, but it opened my eyes to the decent terrain up there. You need to be careful as there's definitely some terrain traps and above treeline in a storm or flat light the skiing could get tricky, but there is plenty of potential there. I vowed to go back multiple times. This was Tim's first big backcountry outing, and I hope to drag him along on a few other local adventures.
Low down in the early season there's a lot of navigating through fallen trees, little lava fields, so this can be a tricky peak on a splitboard. On this outing, we dropped the East Bowl, which looked like the best snow, and caught the PCT, which luckily had some ski tracks on it (from XC skiers?) and was clear.
