Looking for the trail. We descend the snow, traversing right so that we are sure the trail will be to our left or below us. It is not too long before the snow runs thin and we enter the brush. We work left a bit, but no trail. Now we are in the middle of dense brush on a very steep hill side.
Progress is difficult and slow.
If we continue straight down we should eventually come to the trail, but that could take even hours. In a last effort to find the trail I drop my pack and traverse quickly across the slope. In 200 ft I find the trail. I return, fetch my pack and the rest of the party. If I read the map closer I might have been able to lead us more directly to the trail.