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Wow! My experience with Diamond Peak has been late summer only at the Rockpile TH. What I keenly remember is the very long road travel from Oakridge. The places where road 2149 gets close to the mount...
Thanks for the generous details. It sounds like you've been hammering away at Hayrick Butte for some time and have accumulated some valuable local knowledge. I hope to read about your future Hayr...
With the wind that you described (and generally inability to see necessary detail in the dark), how do you evaluate avalanche risk before committing?
This report is special to me since Hayrick Butte has been a summer and winter project for me for the past 20 years. There's hardly any publicly available information so you have to had talked to...
I climbed MSH on Sunday, May 7. It's been a few years since my last visit. I noticed two remarkable things: First, the FS seems to have abandoned permit enforcement. I estimate about 300 folks...
Thanks for that. Avalanche retrospectives are extremely valuable and good reminders to be careful, as you point out.
It seems Stacker Butte becomes skiable every 5 years or so. I had a good year to try about 10 years ago but couldn't find the way up without taking the risk of pissing off a landowner. Where ex...
Nic pics! Love those show pillows. I've been seeing them alot this year.
Just to stir the pot a little, I too think MHM management assumes too much ownership of the public land on which it's licensed to operate the ski area. It's public land, plain and simple. ...
Great job finding great conditions so early in the season!Regarding the snowpark plowing: They won't do anything until the snowmobilers start complaining. Contract broken between WA and snowpark...
I was up there a day earlier and it looks like we shared identical conditions both days. I found perfect rock hard climbing carrying my skis and excellent creamy top to bottom skiing too. It was mod...
author=mtneer ordinaire link=topic=20598.msg87752#msg87752 date=1303331187]Dumb question: it's closed due to a gate closure not because of unplowed snow, correct?What I found was large orange and...
author=savegondor link=topic=20371.msg86510#msg86510 date=1301437009]oh and btw....there was a ton of snow on the road, unplowed from 1500 feet up. Marble Mountain hadn't been plowed in several...
author=Snowolf link=topic=18494.msg78561#msg78561 date=1292938911]Obviously having a partner or partners is the best, safest way to go, it is not always possible. A solo skier or rider with common sen...
author=pcg link=topic=18494.msg78525#msg78525 date=1292896768]I think most savvy folk do read the NWAC posts, but what if he didn't that day? Frankly I would rather have the skills to analyze sn...
To underscore the danger you smartly avoided, please see a related TR at:http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/806042#Post806042I believe that's the steep east face...
I, too, was a Mt Hood skiing visitor that day. And I skied away a happy customer too!After battling (happily though) a tough ascent alone up to Pea Gravel ridge from the Heather canyon runout, I...