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WA Cascades West Slopes North (Mt Baker)
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Your Aurora Borealis photos are peaceful and exhilarating, same as I think of skiing. We saw your tracks on Friday and used what was left of your skin track. Thanks for sharing!
Nice report! We were up there on Monday the 4th and saw lots of tracks from the weekend. We tried to beat the incoming weather to the summit, racing a lenticular we saw coming, but turned around at 9,...
Nice Dave! I was just looking at that on the map 4 or 5 days ago thinking about your bushwhack story. Glad you got some skiing in this time.
Just to add to the Alpental reports... friends had skied Lower I below the cliffs on the 20th and reported deep blower conditions (mixed with rock and foliage.) I was skeptical but went up there Sunda...
Hey gravyb, That was Dave P and I drinking the best ski beer in the world up on the ridge. Nice eye ;) We saw you go down from the saddle and followed your route later in the evening. We had a fantas...
Skied the slot the next day (3-21) and enjoyed your skintrack. Thanks. Rain to 4500 but the payoff was 6 inches of dense pow in the slot. Got out with the Karakoram boys who were ripping on their new...
author=md2020 link=topic=15305.msg64092#msg64092 date=1264299105]I was up messing around the power lines above Grand Junction today, and I was kind of surprised to find around 5" of new snow that...
Looks like a "serious" ly good time. Way 2 b.
Thanks for the reports. I had no partner as of 8am so I went up to Alpental and rode lifts. Waiting for chair 1 to open a very nice patrolman approached me and told me that Elevator had slid to the fi...
Hyak alert. Watch out for metal spikes holding up some fence material on the cat track/landslide area. There is only about 12-18 inches sticking out, but when they are barely covered with snow and som...
Fun day! Here are a couple of photos. Thank for breaking trail most of the way Dave.
author=Big Steve link=topic=13622.msg56850#msg56850 date=1244939585] Ran into a guy named Aaron who was waiting on the ridge for two buddies to join him. Good to meet you up there Big Steve!
Excellent tour and TR! Great pictures! I was there yesterday and for a 3-day weekend skiing around. We were going to tour the Rose knob Sunday too (might have bumped into you) but after a late n...
Had another great weekend at the Ostrander Hut in Yosemite National Park. Powder skiing four years in a row. It's a lucky place for me. I'll try to get a TR going soon. Here is a picture of...
hey skimtner & Robyn,Thanks for the Avi link Robyn.Do you guys know of any telemetry / snowfall data resources for (any part of) the Sierras? I'm heading into Ostrander in Yosemite and&...
Nice Dave!author=dave_perkins link=topic=12171.msg50852#msg50852 date=1233771243]Hoping a late start would let things soften up a bit I left the Alpental parking lot around 10:15.Me too. Sorry I misse...
Thanks for the visuals.author=Rusty Knees link=topic=11737.msg48810#msg48810 date=1230931049]What will make either the 4" or that 2 foot layer safe? Does it bond over time? I've been think...
author=telemack link=topic=11203.msg46232#msg46232 date=1226534310] I was the guy who asked if you were TAYers. You must have asked Dave before I hobbled over, or I missed it during one of those wind...
I think Dave and I talked to you when we were heading down. Good job at least getting some turns. It sure was nasty. We never even took our skins off--first time (hopefully last) I've ever skinne...
Cem,Looks like a great trip. Do you plan to carry skis the whole way? If so what other ski lines do you plan to hit? Do you have any pictures of your (bike) touring rig with skis? I'd love to see...
Pete,You need to explain to your family that the ski clock applies physics of the spacetime continuum, whereby all the gravity you are harnessing in your tour bends time, making your 2pm promise good...
author=Joedabaker link=topic=9278.msg37367#msg37367 date=1203864954]Not bad for a guy with no skins ;) your legs must have been feeling mush like the snow below Granite after all that work.Dave does...
Thanks for the fresh perspective with the GREAT video! The look on your face at the end sums it up. I felt like I was there. Bueno!
There are two other variables regarding the need for the ski crampons.1. Sidecut--skis with lots of sidecut don't bite as well when sidehilling (from the standpoint of providing surface area for...
No disrespect to Soren, and it is a beautiful name, but we've been calling that line the "toilet bowl" because if you get flushed in the funnel, you will find yourself in a world of Sh$...
author=MW88888888 link=topic=6838.msg27491#msg27491 date=1176343477]...enjoyed powder down a completely untracked Edelweiss. I admired your tracks on the way up and considered heading over that way f...
Hi Zap & Jill,I too was lured by yesterday's report, but I got a later start today, leaving the parking lot solo at 11:30. Sounds like you needed to go just a tad higher. The snow way down lo...
Nice! Great line. Ben Haskell & Co have been skiing it over the last few years. Who knows--maybe he was the first? Anyway, after Dave & I skied it in Feb, Ben told me that he calls it the &quo...
Thanks, MW88888888. We'll have to go back up there together sometime. I never though about the parking as we always had a pass, but I guess you are right about the access. BTW, if you look carefu...
author=philfort link=topic=6258.msg25830#msg25830 date=1171394501]Nice!Any shots of it from far away?Thanks! I wish I had a picture from over on Kendall.[Edit - removed link as requested - Charles]