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11/12/12
WA Cascades West Slopes North (Mt Baker)
11/12/12 4:30pm
3093
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7/6/12
WA Cascades West Slopes South (Mt Rainier)
7/8/12 6:30pm
5908
9
4/29/12
WA Cascades East Slopes Central
4/30/12 7:33am
4169
5
12/16/11
WA Cascades West Slopes South (Mt Rainier)
12/17/11 6:54pm
3916
5
12/3/11
WA Cascades West Slopes North (Mt Baker)
12/5/11 11:41am
6860
6
11/30/11
WA Cascades West Slopes South (Mt Rainier)
11/30/11 3:29pm
2942
3
11/1/11
WA Cascades West Slopes South (Mt Rainier)
11/1/11 9:06am
2915
1
7/28/11
WA Cascades West Slopes South (Mt Rainier)
7/29/11 2:52am
2211
2
3/5/10
WA Cascades West Slopes South (Mt Rainier)
3/7/10 5:12pm
3796
5
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Nice work, guys! We debated between the Heather Lake Couloir and McClellan Butte's N Couloir on Saturday, and opted for McClellan. In retrospect, that was a poor choice, as the freezing rain even...
Thanks for pulling the link to the day's forecast, Susan. The January weak layer is only briefly mentioned at the top of the forecast discussion. However, near the end, I think this is the key se...
This sort of ridiculous access policy is why I cannot favor expansion of North Cascades National Park (or really any others for that matter). This mindless bureaucracy is nuts. Heaven forbid people de...
Mike, triggered this on the down. We entered Bobby's chute from the top left, which had better terrain anchoring (tops of young trees visible above the snow). We watched a solo skier with dog ent...
Yikes. Was up the White Salmon drainage on 5/1 and there was some serious carnage in there from the previous warm-up... lots of 8-12ft releases at various points along Shuksan arm and some freshly she...
Was curious what the history of the line was. Has Sloan been skied off the summit ridge out the W gully, or by the south ledges route before? I had a hard time imagining it had gone untouched, but cou...
Beautiful shot, Jim. I think the false summit wouldn't be a problem; it may be possible to traverse all the way from the true summit. Wouldn't be much fun, though, and the exposure is a bit...
Nice! We aborted on the tree arete earlier in the season. Very cool area, I think there's some big stuff that could go down off the ridge between Persis and Index with the right conditions.
Thanks to TBill for the inspiration to check this line and for the sweet skintrack that appears to have been well utilized in the last few days. Patrick left his camera at home, but drew photographer...
Nice solo effort; way to make it in a single push, too. TR makes me want to go ski this line again... last time I lost a pole at the top of the face, which made the remainder of the trip a little more...
It was a grand old time contemplating fracture mechanics in an only somewhat soggy whiteout.What's crackin'? The snowpack, that's what.There were some decent turns to be had.Soggy, but...
Way to go get it, guys. The WX pattern for the coming days is looking promising...
Nice work, guys! Gotta love the talus.
I think we were headed down around 6:00. The altitude was kicking us a bit, and we definitely should have started up a few hours earlier to reduce the rock and ice fall risk on the ascent... there was...
Hmm, looks like you're right... we seem to have missed our right turn. Too many couloirs on that south face, hard to count over from the summit and figure out which one you're supposed to dr...
Thanks for putting up the pics! That was some seriously great snow. It was great fun skiing with you guys.
Well, early bird gets the worm... we were a couple hours behind and a touch surprised to see your tracks when we hit the notch. After eating lunch at the base of the Twins, we noted a bit of drizzle,...
One more pic.
Hey Louie, no prob, was nice to meet you guys, too. Glad I topped my fuel off before leaving home; pasta and instant potatoes are really much better when they're cooked.
Wow, looks gorgeous. Nice work!
Yup, road past the lodge. I descended skiers left from Pan and dropped through the trees to the road, then skinned back to the lot.
Nice. Well, shows what being impatient gets you, I get up Thursday at 0330 to test my new powder setup in fresh, get a rain crust. Should've waited 'til this morning it seems. Oh well. Inter...
Zap,Hi5s aren't exactly billed as hardpack skis, but they don't appear to have real negatives there other than a speed limit. My ski all last year was a Mustagh Ata SL in 178, which I liked...
Predictably, I'm pretty sure conditions improved after we left Thursday morning. The post frontal convection didn't really set in until Thursday afternoon, and looks like most of the lower e...
Lowell,Agree. On the walk back to the car as I was thinking "what would I have done differently", ski cutting the top of the chute two or three times came to mind. It also struck me as a sit...
Nice work, guys. Was eyeballing those couloirs while heading up towards Liberty Bell to ski part of Madison Ave and Early Winters Couloir on Monday... those two lines are for sure on the future hit li...
Nice TR, Ross... it was a great weekend!
Nice TR, Amar, looks like it was a gorgeous day. I'm a grad student in the UW Atmospheric Science department, so if anyone's got questions regarding the model output or anything else that th...
Very rad.
Sweet pics, Stefan, love the silhouette shot below Stujack.