Turns All Year: year round backcountry skiing and snowboarding

Turns All Year: Year Round Backcountry Skiing

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Pacific Northwest backcountry skiing and snowboarding trip reports, mountain weather, snow, avalanche, and NWAC telemetry information, trail conditions, and forest road conditions for year-round backcountry telemark skiing, ski touring, randonee (randonnee) skiing, and snowboarding. Weather links cover the Oregon and Washington Cascades and Olympics; mountain access links cover the Washington mountains. Includes galleries of skiing and snowboarding images, ski trip photo galleries, mountain panoramas, and biographies of year round skiers.

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Olympic Wilderness coast by high dynamic range (HDR) photography

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Photo: Charles Eldridge Camera: Panasonic LX3

Notes: the quality of this HDR photo is limited by a several of factors. First, the camera was hand held rather than tripod mounted; this resulted in the individual photos in the HDR photo set not having perfect alignment, which is responsible for the fuzziness toward the corners of some images. Second, each HDR photo set consists of just three photos, with just a two stop range (-1, 0, and +1); this is less than ideal for taking full advantage of the range possible with HDR. Third, not a lot of time was taken in processing the 32-bit HDR files (tone mapping), so some artifacts are more pronounced than is ideal; examples are halos around dark objects projecting into the sky, graininess in some darker areas.

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Here in the Pacific Northwest, we are blessed with deep winter snows and long cool springs which help preserve the mountain snowpack, making possible year-round skiing. Summer skiing in the Cascades can provide some of the nicest backcountry conditions of the year: a fast, consolidated, and consistent snowpack; warm, sunny weather; and long hours of daylight. The major Cascade volcanoes (Mt. Rainier, Mt. Baker, Mt. Adams, and Mt. Hood) have on their flanks extensive backcountry skiing, snowboarding, and ski touring terrain, which becomes accessible as spring progresses into summer. Long skiing runs are available even into September, at which time new snow typically begins to accumulate on higher elevation snow fields. Thus, year-round skiing in the Pacific Northwest is not only possible, but enjoyable.

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