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Almost went for the Zip on Sunday but eschewed it for something closer to the road. Thanks for the trip report
author=discostew link=topic=40516.msg161051#msg161051 date=1523546062]were you in the group with the girl that got caught in the slide on enterprise and nearly pushed into a crevasse? ya, coolest hut...
glad you had a great trip! we were out there the previous week, a lot less snow coming down and only slightly better visibility. what an insanely cool place to put a hut!
author=coldseagull link=topic=40476.msg160984#msg160984 date=1523225395]That's like 10 miles down from the esmerelda trailhead? Best to wait until that road is melted out until going up stuart, o...
author=Good2Go link=topic=40476.msg160909#msg160909 date=1522731023]I heard on the news that the central Cascades are at 110% of normal snowpack. Should be a good Stuart season. Well then, there you h...
I'll vouch for the eightmile creek route up cannon. we split it a couple years ago, crossing the creek at 3100ft with fairly minimal bs. either that or my selective memory has fooled me again.Tha...
what was the date again?
author=MGoodwin link=topic=37746.msg153084#msg153084 date=1485804257]Thank you for the report. Can you elaborate on the initial approach below 3K? Were you able to skin the whole way or was there a lo...
author=tabski link=topic=36494.msg148674#msg148674 date=1463085222]Top 200' of east-facing snowfields (above ~10,500') are shin- to knee-high penitentes.yikes. that looks like tough skiing
we climbed via the easton yesterday. the route is still very clean at this point and given your comfortability with glacier travel can be done sans rope.the roman wall was still very icy when we dropp...
author=powersa link=topic=36060.msg147227#msg147227 date=1458440026]From that spectacular vantage, we could see Doctor Suess like cornices hanging from more or less every ridge line.took this photo of...
on the contrary, i didn't find the standard route up from eightmile creek to be particularly unpleasant. we got a bit off track with a premature creek crossing that added an extra 40 min or so of...
author=Good2Go link=topic=35899.msg146714#msg146714 date=1456772523]It takes a surprising amount of effort to get that line.a little bit of effort to get out of it too! we had a ripping traverse to ge...
Thanks for the link Lowell. Bud Halley was a family friend who belonged to L company in the 86th. He used to sing that song to my mom while teaching her to ski at Big Bear in California. She in turn w...