Ruby Peak

This beautiful face on the peak just south of Grays is very easily accessible once one can drive Peru Creek Road to the end (typically, around June 10 (but that road is now closed by a gate before the spot we started from). On June 17, 2005, I skied it with Jonathan Kriegel, Chet Roe, and Tim Schowalter. We climbed the snow on the left to the ridge, walked easily to the summit (the east summit, just over 13000 feet), retraced a bit (excellent conditions), and then dropped into the mushy east face. The name here stems from a comment a friend of mine made: “Telemark skiing is like reading Plato in the original Greek. It can work, but it is not the best way to understand Plato.”