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Skiers 1 and 2, thanks for sharing your leaning experience with us, and thanks for you detailed analysis. I'm sure I'm not the only one who's experienced a similar mindset approac...
I wanted to respond to burns-all-year et al, who were probably generous in searching for explanations beyond stupidity. I hope it's helpful to parse our particular instance of stupidity. Yo...
Stevens definitely got lots of snow Sat night, and it fell pretty hard at times while we were out Sunday.
We had a snow cave that covered us to about mid-thigh, and a 2-3' deep trench extending beyond that. We guyed our poncho/tarp to trekking pole halves, and we buried the boundary under snow...
Major style points for a gratuitous lap on a first descent.
Pictures of the crux at the waterfall/choke:
Some pictures from Sunday. There's a skier somewhere in that cloud in the first shot.
Wow - that's some advanced skinning technique. We were the second party on the skin track, and we wondered what kind of person drops a layer 15 feet from the parking lot. A smarter pe...
author=bs. link=topic=26957.msg113667#msg113667 date=1358023052]whitehorse has captivated me since i spent the weekend staring at it during the meltdown music festival last summer.... but every story...
Great pictures. Can I infer from them that the slot is filled in?
Glad you had a good descent. The ski out to van trump was great, then barely covered. We managed to ski almost all the way to the trailhead, though it took some creativity getting through...
Thanks for the detailed conditions report!
We ran into you guys descending from the false summit. I was accompanied by my wife and my very tired dog.