While car camping outside the gate of the Cielo Vista Ranch, TayJack, JacerJack and Short-Rope welcome Pikabark, a new friend that was among the 20 individuals who had reservations to climb Culebra Peak the next day.  We learn about our new friend’s weight-loss feat via the 14ers, we discuss JacerJack’s successful skiing of the Emperor Couloir on Torreys Peak this Spring (the daunting gulley visible from I70) and we learn all sorts about snow conditions, avalanche risk, and avalanche-condition report reading in the Nonstandard 14er Podcast’s Trailhead Talk episode.