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Hi CliffedDoubt, thanks for the report. In order to get the images to show within your TR, link to each actual image file on Imgur, not the webpage for each image. To do this, change the first pic...
Continued from previous post . . .Eventually below 8000 ft, the pseudo-firnspiegel rain crust vanished and it was just smooth amazing windpacked snow. Excellent fast turns here, definitely the best sn...
Thanks for the comments, folks.I've just posted an addendum to the original report (at the end of Reply #1) with several photos and measurements of the 2nd avalanche crown on Cowlitz Headwall, mo...
Weather Forecasts and Data:Here is the NWS Rainier forecast for the day of this report:Mount Rainier Recreational ForecastNational Weather Service Seattle WA337 AM PST Wed Nov 7 2018SYNOPSIS...High pr...
Continued from previous post . . .November 8, 2018: Avalanche Size MeasurementsGiven my cough / cold, I wasn't sure if I would be back the next day, even though Thursday's forecast was even...
I recently realized that I should have included another map in the original post showing the crevasses on Muir Snowfield from the Google Maps Terrain layer. Starting a few years ago, Google Terrain ha...
Continued from previous post . . .Several factors contributed to the good outcome of this incident, some of them purely lucky and others not so at all. Chief among the latter set was the remarkable ab...
Well, it's back online: the Paradise total snow column was un-blanked in the NWAC telemetry after 6pm on December 28, with the note updated to read, "Total snow gage repaired 4 pm Dec 28&quo...
author=Rowen link=topic=39367.msg158632#msg158632 date=1514415560]... we ran into an increasingly worrying surface crust down low in the trees before the main ascent. Once on that more exposed aspect,...
NWAC telemetry for the period in question, including the relevant header notes about total snowdepth at the times that they were added or updated:Northwest Avalanche CenterParadise, Mt Rainier Nationa...
Thanks for the post and warning. Glad he survived the fall.News article with video of the rescue:http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/article154517854.htmlCrevasse fall is second in two weeks on...
author=heinzsd link=topic=37746.msg153067#msg153067 date=1485794574]You must be the snowboarders we met, thanks for the beta on the trainwreck, twas good. I put a few pics and tracks up incase thats...
Thanks for the kind words, folks.I've just updated the TR to include days 2 and 3, which were left blank in the original report posted last night.
author=runcle link=topic=37626.msg152466#msg152466 date=1484673584]If there is no one at Longmire to retrieve the key from will the rangers assist or are you there for the night? The Longmire Inn is o...
Weather Forecasts and Telemetry:Extraordinary unusual deep-powder snow conditions on the Muir Snowfield should require extraordinary unusual weather conditions, right? But my normal viewing of the NWS...
Continued from previous post . . .Then a fast cruise on nice powder again for most of the remaining stretch to Paradise, as the flatter terrain here is too flat to get much solar radiation from the lo...
Great trip and effort, nice photos! Especially this moonlight shot of the upper mountain from an unusual angle on Ingraham Glacier, a view which is rarely seen, day or night:One thing I'm surpris...
author=Amar Andalkar link=topic=37188.msg150892#msg150892 date=1480736100]A minute later I was again surprised to see a pair of snowshoers ascending up my skintrack near 8500 ft, with heavy overnight...
Well, I really am rusty on this whole TR-writing thing -- accidentally posted this in December! I've asked the moderators to move it.
Continued from previous post . . .Not bad looking turns, even on the worst part of the snow, looking up from 9200 ft.Ski conditions were back to outstanding the rest of the way below 9200 ft, so smoot...
May 17: Shastina, WSW Face via Cascade GulchMay 18: Mount Shasta, West Face via Avalanche GulchFORECAST FOR MOUNT SHASTA RECREATIONAL AREANATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD, OR305 AM PDT WED MAY 18 2016...
May 15: Mount Shasta, Lower Cascade Gulch (from 9200 ft to 6500 ftFORECAST FOR MOUNT SHASTA RECREATIONAL AREANATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD, OR352 AM PDT SUN MAY 15 2016TODAY...MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A...
May 13: Lassen Peak, West Face Gully and NW side traverse via NE FaceMay 14: Brokeoff Mountain, South Face via trail routeFORECAST FOR MOUNT SHASTA RECREATIONAL AREANATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD, O...
May 11: Mount Shasta, continued . . .Panorama spanning about 240° from atop the 14140+ ft north summit, with the 14179 ft true summit at upper left center, the 14040+ ft west summit at center above th...
The pics in the TR are visible just fine now! Thanks for fixing it.
Thanks for the report. But all the pics are broken and not publicly viewable, at least for me on a Mac (tried viewing in both Safari and Chrome), and even trying to view the images URLs at googleuserc...
author=kamtron link=topic=36271.msg147878#msg147878 date=1460392267]We were joined by a party of 4 climbers who took the route described in the Volken book. I think next time I would try that route fo...
August 2, 2015, Update:I may write a more complete trip report later this week with more photos, but here's a quick update in case anyone still wants to ski a long run in great conditions this su...
Continued from previous post . . .We could have easily switched back to skins at this point for the long traverse over to Grant Peak, but it was faster to just keep plodding along on foot and not take...
Thanks for the kind words, everyone. I'm still feeling some of the high from this trip now a week later.Here is a great trip report on CascadeClimbers from the guys I met at the west crater rim w...