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WA Cascades West Slopes South (Mt Rainier)
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Sick double inversion in photo #1. What time of day was that taken?
Sounds like convective showers. Post frontal cold air aloft over surfaces warmed from solar radiation- causing instability and thus snow showers. The cold air aloft also helps keep the ptype as snow e...
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Rad! Made a similar overnighter a couple years back. We swung a left after the Holy Diver and skied a nice line into Wildcat Lake. Our route back took us over Caroline and Kaleteen. There's plenty of...
Sweet fogbow. Did it look like the fog came in from any particular direction? East? West?
Looks like you’ll have to make another trip up unfortunately…
Ak... but no mention of p3???
Will trade forecasts 4 coop skis!
Next time save the hours of driving and just come on up to ANC 😉. Nice to hear the synopsis!
Awww yeaaa! We were just chatting yesterday about when this line would go while being worthy of a descent. Well done on the timing- I thought similar slopes would be mostly debris'ed out. How'd you fi...
Mike, was this the slope we skied during our course a couple of years back? It certainly looks familiar.
I think the biggest indicator of a safety record is whether the frequency of close calls (or h...
Tim Helmstadter!
Nice TR! Good to hear folks making the most of all the rad terrain right off the beaten path.
What was the thinking on the easterly flow causing the valley to fill up with fog? The airmass on the eas...
I just thought about how clocks work... Whoops! I guess we did it CW- damn digital clocks taking over!
MtnPavlas- I think the dream would to ski it CCW in March and hit pow on N slopes and corn on S...
Skiing down from snow lake devide at 5pm yesterday, I can verify that the snow did refreeze.
Freezing up at 36 F or loosening up at 30 F... Those surface fluxes consistently have me scratching...
"The road was pretty interesting - at least one person made it all the way to Smithbrook TH (probably slower than skinning). On the way out we saw 3 stuck cars carrying Christmas trees just a few hund...
Looks super busy out there 😉
AR with a Jordan-esque coming out of retirement!
Aye, that gate is a trip killer for most people (includimg myself a week prior). You might have the first ever May TR for this area as most others either use a sled in April or auto in June.
Aye, that gate is a trip killer for most people (includimg myself a week prior). You might have the first ever May TR for this area as most others either use a sled in April or auto in June.
Looks you got the Cool Headwall in primo conditions. Last I saw, Sauk River road was reported to be washed out 0.5 miles in. What was is it like for yall?
author=Mtraslin link=topic=41886.msg164945#msg164945 date=1556816211]It is still possible to get in the zone. 1.5 million of vertical for the season to go along with 151 months of earned turns. Woah!...
author=Good2Go link=topic=41883.msg164913#msg164913 date=1556585339]The day started out with perfect, windless bluebird skies and switched to a low cloud deck with few openings around 11 and then ligh...
Did you think you were dreaming when you looked out the window this morning?
Dang, I think that camera has lived more than most people in a lifetime. Very entertaining read. I think I made a cameo as a headwall skier- did you possibly get any photos of our descent?
author=mikerolfs link=topic=40675.msg161595#msg161595 date=1526271869]Holy smokes! Did you meet the pilot? Crazy!The pilot is still unnamed, possibly until the NTSB releases a report. I wa...
Sweet line. The first time I saw a photo of Magic, I was convinced that it had to be in Alaska.
I hope you were porpoising the whole time on the banana boat skis! Great photos and post.
author=Jake the Brit link=topic=39131.msg157837#msg157837 date=1511067100]Is photo number 3 somewhere on the HiBox ridge? What a line! Reminds me of the back of Dragontail, but steeper and longer.Stel...
Bold to go to go back in there this early... I'm glad it payed off
I was having a hard time imagining the whole place covered in snow. Thanks for posting the pic. When was it taken?