Glorious day in the mountains. Weather forecast was for low temps and high winds, but we got sunshine and perfect conditions.
Well established track all the way from the Alpental parking lot to right under Chair Peak. Closer to the ridge, the track got filled in with snow, then it got steeper and more exposed, snow started to slide out from under my skis, so I made my way to a ridge above a tree and switched to booting up.
Looking at other tracks on Gaia, there's an alternate way up to the ridge climbers right from the Thumbtack that had a bunch of tracks going up.
Snowboarding down the bowl was fantastic with lots of soft snow. The snow below that was soft in places but still lots of fun. The track out was annoying as always on a snowboard.