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10/20/12
WA Cascades West Slopes North (Mt Baker)
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How was the road to Schriebers? The FS page shows it closed at MP 3.55 as of 10/25?
Those rascals. I gave them a taste of the shoe salts two summers ago. They devoured a couple socks and started in on the trail runners while I was away at the summit.
Impressive! Props on nailing that in prime conditions. We were foiled a couple weeks ago by intermittent clouds that kept the snow real firm from the summit down to about 5500' right before the t...
You can drive all the way up the road until the locked gate at the Eldorado trailhead (mile 20). The road is completely snow free until about .5 mile from the Cascade Pass TH.
Nice running into y'all up there, glad you had a good time. Not a bad way to spend the first day of summer!
Some pics from the evening. Also fun to finish off the night with some trailhead barbecuing!
Sounds like an awesome trip up to Van Trump! Looking at your photos reminded me of this fall. FWIW here is a photo of the mountain from a similar aspect from October 19 of this season. The snow covera...
We went up today to check it out. Crampons of all sorts remained in the pack all day. We probably hit the middle and upper slopes a bit later in the day than cascadekid, but I think ski crampons would...
Shreddar, I think we chatted for a while at the prow. And I think I see my party of two stopped for a water/sunblock break in the second picture! I was wondering what that chopper was up to. Kyle and...
Well... someone went up there and cut up the tree. We ran into some climbers about 30 minutes from the car on Sunday that warned us about the tree. By the time we got to the spot, the tree was already...
Skinning would have been nice… I don't currently my own touring skis (looking to invest in September), so the skis were on my backpack all the way up this trip. You could start skinning after the...