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Boy, you picked a really ugly place for your first tour! Nothing interesting to look at all. ;-)
Wishing you had taken the Manaslu's?
Great day, nice to hook up with you guys again. - Russ
Beautiful views and dang fine skiing! Destination was the snowy peak directly above lead guy's red beanie.Technical crux of both ascent & descent
author=NWBCer link=topic=14595.msg61313#msg61313 date=1259523588]The coolest, greatest thing I will take from this thread is the quote from Joeda:"...That is why the skins stayed in the car, all...
That's one of the great things about the Chair Peak circ - even when the skiing isn't that good, the views and environment are way cool. Nice photos.
Nice pictures! Not being familiar with the area you're talking about I did a look up with NG Topo maps. Turns out there is an Excelsor Mt (4832ft) & Excelsor Peak (5699ft) both with differen...
Mark - welcome back to the PNW and skiing. Funny timing - while touring yesterday, we ran into a couple of Baker skiers and someone commented that they hadn't seen posts from you in a long time....
Thanks for the report - sounds like you were on the SE aspect of Rampart Ridge, if I interpret correctly. I haven't skied in the rain yet this year, maybe tomorrow...
Apologies for my not-so-snow-conserving lines, though there was still plenty to go around. As you said - there was plenty of slope to go around. Judging from added tracks, I think there was at least...
Hey Trumpetsailor - was that your maroon wagon closest to the turn around? If so we were an hour or so behind you. Nice using our track from Sunday, retrod by Jim O. yesterday. We had a stellar 3 lap...
Silas - thought you were starting the trip in Norway - plans change?
author=Hyakbc link=topic=12504.msg52253#msg52253 date=1236040218]The Zipper is tracked out.Smile when you say that, partner! ;)
Don - what route did you take to get over the ridge to Grand Junction? Too bad you last photo wasn't take from a little bit further to the west, then we could see how Zipper Chute is filling in -...
Great photos Scott, I especially like that last one of South Sister!
Great job of creating your own tour - "Der Skyline Haute Route"!
As of yesterday still good snow on the north side, although it's beginning to look like a ski area with moguls forming in some of the gulleys. The south side is mostly untracked due to abundant s...
Views from East Peak to the southDown into Cement Basin powSilas cutting up the said powMarcus, good luck in fixing the Bows... good ski to salvage!
Silas enjoying East Peak corn!
Looks like fun! I'm coming down that way for the last week of January and want to tour Tumalo. Where do you park to start the tour? Any parking / access permits needed?Thanks for any information...
Nice write up Zack, I could almost feel the turns :)
Way to go Kyle! Looking at the Emmons from the Frying Pan Glacier on Saturday it looks like it was starting to break up - Way to sneak one in.
Steve, good to put a face with the name. It was such a fine day, everyone seemed to love harvesting the corn!
Beautiful day, nice photos. The track in the second shot are from my group of five coming off Fortune for a run down Headlight Basin. We then traversed back to the SE bowl for the run down to the tra...
author=frostyday link=topic=10235.msg41175#msg41175 date=1212531184]Made great time over the col and across Melakwa Lake (still solidly snowed in), but followed a sucker bootpack up the ridge south of...
We did the Chair Peak outlet as Jim mentioned - what did the slopes above on Mt Roosevelt look like? Is there continious line from near summit?Tx, Russ
Amar - while you beat yourself up for the mistakes, don't loose sight of the good decisions and experienced judgments that led to surviving. Thanks for sharing in such detail, so we can all add t...
Nice call on going early - we left the parking lot around 9:30 so by the time we ski down the sw facing broad slope it had just softening a little too much. Meet up with your tracks down in the valley...
British Air misplaced my skis flying into Geneva - luckily I got them late the next day. Did miss meeting up with a local to ski in Chamonix .... :'(
Having done the road slog as well, I thought going over Hyak and Nordic Pass was more interesting....Not knowing the "official" name last year, we called in Mother's Day chute, in that...