The most snow I ever saw at Bunny Flat was 40 feet high! (in the 1980s possibly 1992 ) In 1992 there was also 12 feet of snow in Town

Getting up on top of the snow was the biggest challenge for my friend and I who wanted to ski from Bunny Flat to 7 mile curve on Everitt Memorial Highway then. So, we figured out a way to climb up the face of the snow caused by Snow blower Trucks clearing the road for cars. However, have you ever driven with 40 feet of snow to your right and to your left?

It's quite a feeling in a car or truck to have this experience!

So, as we started to ski down it was hard to recognize where we were because there was at most the top 4 or 5 feet of the tallest of trees sticking out of the snow.

Then my friend who isn't as tall as me so weighs much less skied between two tree tops. At the time this seemed like an okay thing to do because he was leading and I was following his snow tracks and if you are on unmanicured snow (manicured snow you only find where there are ski lifts) following someone in their tracks is about 50% to 90% easier than breaking your own trail through various kinds of snow conditions in virgin snow.

Well. I fell through into a tree well and found myself suddenly standing with my skis on about 8 to 10 feet down inside of a pine or fir tree where I could see down 30 or more feet to the ground below me. 

I called out to my friend to come help me get out of there so I handed up my skis (as I was standing on a tree limb. So, I climbed up the tree top as best I could and took his hand so he could help pull me out of there.

If he hadn't been there likely I would still be in that tree 6 months later so this time it paid to not be skiing alone.

Also, the most people who die by skiing into tree wells are snowboarders who have more difficulty with tree wells than skiers for some reason when they fall in one. It is one of the main ways snowboarders die besides going to fast and running into something and then they are dead.

However, both my friend and I survived skiing that day from Bunny Flat to 7 mile Curve which is a couple of miles down the mountain on that route which is my favorite mountaineering skiing route with metal edges on the mountain.

If you go above tree line often this time of year you have to worry a little about Avalanches because you never know when one is going to let loose. This is one reason why I stopped skiing above Tree line in the Springtime because I almost died in an Avalanche skiing by myself one day in the spring in the 1980s myself.

So, be careful out their on skis or snowboards or even snowshoes when you are enjoying Mt. Shasta or wherever you are on earth.

Please be careful enough to stay alive through all your adventures worldwide!