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6/4/19
WA Cascades West Slopes South (Mt Rainier)
6/4/19 9:40am
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Impressive trek..... I can't imagine the calories burned in the process. The photography and composition rocks!!
I knew there were some other hardy souls over here. Way to enjoy the novelty of seeing the surroundings on ski's!
Yeah, skiing 2 out of 3 years isn't bad for Kitsap. An 8 hour trimming & general improvements session may keep it from becoming another lost ski area?
Let's see if I can post a few.
When a friend & I discovered that backside full of couloirs 35 years ago it was something special and given the heavy touring equipment at the time, a hard day. It's been mentioned but one time I...
We toured there 30 years ago but didn't have enough snow to consider Bacon pk. worthy of the brush shenanigans. North side of Watson had a lot of snow so yo-yo'd everything in that area which was good...
There is also a light board at the chapel and if their terrain is closed, might not be able to ski up to the cat track heading toward East peak or gold hills. If they enforce as strongly as they could...
We were there on the 12th and briefly met Silas and a partner heading up. We counted near 40 goats crossing meadows and up in the cliff areas. Lots to eat if the wolves are wiley enough but I'd g...
Driving down from M.R. saw numerous tracks in the hilltops between Mission and Squilchuck and a set (2) above and east of the park. It's clear that conditions are alllowing some lines to be skiie...
3 Days, 4 tours, 14 runs until it went bad with the warming / heavy wet snow Monday. Hope a few pic's attach but it snowed almost the entire time I was out so very flat light....mostly.
If a full moon preavais, ski from the top of Schmitz park to Alki on the trail, then the road at night. If it's as good as 1969, the silver glow around you is off the hook and no botttom outs, he...
It's beyond rare. Just flipped my 65th a few days ago and told the wife, things could get epic around here. Then had the dream and whooaah, are ya kidding me? Never in my life again most likely b...
Thanks for sharing !....long gone is the straight-forward approach that made the colouir a reasonable objective. Glad I tapped it several times when the getting was good. It is hard to view it and not...
I'm seeing some CMC beta for the first time in years so please pardon the thread heist. I remember turning left at Mountaineer TH parking and a gated logging road led cross-hill to the ridge end...
Good choice and perseverance to the goal. The south end of Lanham lake and staying right was found to be our easiest up-climb. It's all steep but there are some better little lanes through the tr...
Nice tour. The "ridge too far" looks tempting from above but it needs to be real stable cause you always come into this from above with little to no chance to do a good assessment. It does s...
Exceptional piece of work! Thanks for sharing and great photo's too.
The "Ridge too far" has been an epic and largely unknown series of chutes & colouirs that have been luring some of us for over 20 years. In all the winter visits, it has roughly a 25%&nb...
Great pic's & looking fun up there. wondered if you noted the crater like hole on the back edge of the ridge?. Not too slidey looking, almost an impact crater. Different for sure.
So that was where it was going off this weekend ! Great vid and a great call on your part(s). I lost count of different parkas, was there a good turnout? You nailed it, keep that mojo goin.
Yumpin Yimminy, thats sum fine consumables you fellers found ! A preview of things to come? Ya sure, youbetcha ! My 56 year old arthritic bod with snotty knees and a dose of pneumonia at the moment ju...
Glad the outcome was so favorable and some really great skiing by the pic's. I couldn't help notice the roll-over and the angularity where it ripped loose looks like a perfect 35. Nasty terr...
Similar conditions to the Nov. 25 slide documented at Crystal mtn, 2006. I was a bit too close to that one & had to come back for a ski several weeks later. My partner was very fortunate to...
Wow, still snow down to Morrison Crk. Pretty late year indeed. I too would suggest the trek up Morrison Crk. drainage when it has adequate snow More snow cover lets you skin up where as the road...
Glad your outcome was a reasonably good one! This is a great reminder to all about crevasse hazards and the fact that they don't announce themselves or necessarily show surface indications....
So when you start up from the nordic center and you see the open clearcut on your uphill left (at least it looked like one 15 years ago) go back left (S.E.) along an old road bed. start rounding...
Nobody in the "hood" Saturday back there & the skiing was excellent. That was you guys setting a tent on the flat below the first drop I presume? We took the center lines & dropped t...
The track going up was looking good but we were too far North to want to traverse / climb the Morse creek back-side. Your descent tracks sure looked inviting though. Did anyone track your elevat...
Nov 25th (Saturday) a partner & I had an up close and personal encounter with an avalanche at the break-over on East Peak. Burghdorfers book shows this as a potential avalanche slope & I'...
Glad to hear the outcome was good, that's a rather nasty chute when it goes. My recent experience in Bullion Basin was a HUGE wake-up call. As I've now done some serious reading / re-educati...