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10/12/13
WA Cascades West Slopes North (Mt Baker)
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WA Cascades West Slopes North (Mt Baker)
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WA Cascades West Slopes North (Mt Baker)
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10/29/08
WA Cascades West Slopes North (Mt Baker)
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Was great to get out skiing with everyone. While my streak is sadly long gone, October turns are still a great wonder.See, I can go to someplace that's not off Mount Baker Highway!
I like the giant yeti cat watching the skier, who might have been lucky the cat didn't pounce.
author=Mattman link=topic=38976.msg157458#msg157458 date=1508978540] They have a detailed map of ascent and descent routes in that area specifically that you can purchase for $10. No I do not work the...
author=mosetick link=topic=38363.msg155418#msg155418 date=1493060229]Is the fisherman's trail different from the one that Kevin was working on a few years ago?Sure looks like the same trail espec...
I did a bunch of trips with Bob to places like Ptarmigan Ridge, Sholes Glacier, and Heliotrope. Always fun, always lots of conversation and great days out.Hard to believe it's been 5 years.
Wow, that's a long walk for Ruth in March! But it's beautiful in any season, well done getting it.In the early summer we typically go down into the valley and survival ski as far as we can b...
Pretty sure the 4.5k means you have to walk to 4.5k altitude, so something like 1k above trailhead. Typical early July conditions and annoying because of the flat walk in the meadow where you're...
On Saturday we found some pretty nice windblown powder on the run down from Herman Saddle down to Chain Lakes. Not a lot, just 4" or so in places over the hard pack, enough to make for some smoot...
We were so lucky to be on the snowing side of the snow line by a few scant feet of altitude. Rain all the way to the parking lot, then nice new from there on up, about 8" by the time we got back...
Thanks Chris, Mack, et al for a fun day out in awesome weather on the 7th OcTAYberfest. Just enough clouds to add ambiance and keep it cool.I had the last of the salmon corn chowder for lunch today.
Hey Mack, I could have done it on the way out, but chose not to. Give me something to aspire to. Some friends are coming in for a barbecue at our house on Sat the 14th and we're going...
Glad you got soft conditions. The cups were pretty hard Saturday evening on Ptarmigan ridge near C-P.We might have talked for a moment when I was heading out Sunday morning with my daughter from...
Hey Mack, congrats on your 6 years. We'll need a suitable destination for ocTAYberfest and my 6.
Mack, I thought the new powder was worth the walk when we went there 2 Octobers ago.But maybe something different for this year's OcTAYberfest.Some place without the evil root grabbing gully.Anyw...
The day I went skiing in North Carolina was the day I gave up skiing for good --- until I moved here.
On a view day, the top of Ruth is one of the best places in the world to be. Great trip and glad it worked out.Just a little walk back out, eh?
Alex, the pix are just fantastic. Perhaps we need to make sure to mention again just how long the FS road is. And bumpy! Definitely not worth going here.
We actually did one of the pitches down from the "first" portal to the lower Sholes a couple of weeks ago, but it was dicier than we had expected, steep over a crevasse. To get to the...
Thanks so much for the link. As Mack said above, we talked about Bob and memories of fun trips out to the Sholes and other destinations. And I really did wear the garish Hawaii shorts in h...
Hooray for Mack's 60 months!I guess there are two lumps that might be called the Portals. We went to the top of the lower and NE one at about 6450'. The other one is several hundred feet h...
Thanks for the TR and photos. Looks like a great place for September turns, and lots of snow still around compared to the typical hunt for a little patch or two.
Thanks to knitvt and Atomic for shaking off the doldrums of the uninspiring forecast and getting us up into the great sunshine and excellent scenery.Actually remembering to re-apply sunscreen was a gr...
The whole point of "no car camping" is to prohibit late night partying in the parking lot, so don't do that. While nobody on this site ever condones bending the rules of august bodies...
Scott et al, I was bummed to have to drop out, and glad you all were safe. Looks like you did get some new. I did get better later in the weekend but not soon enough to get out anywhere.
Sadly the plow came. There was wailing, there were tears. The kids had to be dissuaded from staging a Tiananmen Court moment.Fortunately there still were the power lines up the hill above the court....
Snow held up for more Topaz Court laps today, looks like tomorrow will still be okay. Got to convince people to stop parking at the bottom, right at the run-out.And no Mack, we had an adventure...
Awesome photos! Looks like you got a wonderful day up there.About my favorite place of anywhere.
author=bs. link=topic=21995.msg94180#msg94180 date=1318998112]as excited as i was to ride, i still managed to snap a few quick photos.I love that first one, such a great top of the world feel looking...
author=Brian C link=topic=21995.msg94198#msg94198 date=1319048488]Looks pretty clean considering some years it looks like this:http://www.summitpost.org/this-picture-was-taken-sept/70586/c-150890Sweet...
There was one big crevasse, in the usual spot climbers right of and a bit below the cliff, in the bowl between the cliff and the wind lip. We stayed entirely out of the bowl because there are al...