No TR's yet : (
No TR replies yet : (
More details: I'm thinking it took us 8 hours, more or less to get to to 5,500'. The snow started around 2,000' and we started skiing where the trail crosses the creek coming out...
Eloquently spoken, John. It was a good weekend for "Wow" moments on the eastside. Hard to believe it was so wintry this late in March. I'm glad to hear you found some...
I think it was in one of Beckey's guides that there used to be caves, but they were dynamited for safety reasons.The following link has this to say, "On the way down we visited Cave Ridge. C...
The Bearded One and I were the last off, and yes, should have left much earlier. B took a tumble near the head of the shallow gully skiers right and initiated a 100'+ free ride. Fortu...
Margie T., Bill S. and I made it up there later in the day, after making a run through the trees on the west side. We dug a pit to the crust, 6' or so. Just did a shovel isolation test, with ve...
There were a few people skiing the back bowl off Mazama, we stayed on the 25 deg. slope running down the middle. There was about a foot of light snow on a crust. Either side seemed wind ef...
Ron, we followed your tracks west from the summit to check out the gully, a feature I'd seen on the topo's. I somehow didn't even notice the chutes. We were debating skiing...
Ron, is this the line you were scoping?
I missed this report earlier Greg, was looking in wrong month. After Mason and I left you at the summit of Hinman conditions improved markedly. The 2000' run down the E. slope was ide...
Looks like you did all right with conditions, if I hadn't been trying to get the OWA on our Exchange server recovered from the DST patch, I'd have been able to go too. Oh well, job sec...
Thanks David, for giving me the call Friday night and for the good company on the trip. It sure was a lot easier going than my attempt the week before. Too bad our early start kept us from...
Way to squeak in a few before it hit the fan. Looks like it'll be awhile before anyone gets back up there.It was a good time meeting you at the Snowbash. Glad we got to talk early on....
Climbinghighest, I sent you a message about a Thursday attempt.
Do you go for the summit by the summer trail route? I traversed across the w. face at the level of the trailhead earlier this winter and poked around on the north side. It looked like ther...
Some shots from the trip. (Edit: link was blowing out formatting - fixed. Charles)
Sorry about the confusion, instead of Bean Creek Road, read Beverly Creek Road. As to driving conditions, Stafford Creek is the end of auto travel. From there another form of motorized tra...
I was told by the people at the hotsprings that the forest service had to bring the road up to forest service standards, at which point they were going to turn it over to the private landholders and g...
I tried to approach Big Snow Mountain via the drainage from Gold Lake a few times back in the mid 90's, during mid winter, and got weathered out both times. Part of the problem was trying t...
Thanks for the info about the ladybugs. I've seen other insect swarms at mountain tops before. Very cool phenomenon.Thanks too, for the picture of Hawkins. I skied there with Pico a...
I want to reinforce that. We crossed slough's that had crossed your uptrack from the day before. We had an early start on Sunday, but it would have been better to have gotten an even earli...
When I read this post my heart sank, because I'd been talking this trip up with Pico for several days, but he couldn't go Saturday and I was afraid there would be a line like going to Muir on the uptr...
Sounds like you hit the jackpot again. If I hadn't already commited to Paradise I'd have been there too. I'm curious on how you're descent varied from the time we did it a few years ago. &...