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WA Cascades East Slopes North
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WA Cascades East Slopes North
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WA Cascades East Slopes Central
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WA Cascades West Slopes South (Mt Rainier)
1/17/09 11:59am
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WA Cascades West Slopes South (Mt Rainier)
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WA Cascades West Slopes South (Mt Rainier)
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WA Cascades West Slopes South (Mt Rainier)
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WA Cascades West Slopes South (Mt Rainier)
8/23/06 12:23pm
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WA Cascades West Slopes South (Mt Rainier)
7/3/06 3:08am
2701
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WA Cascades West Slopes South (Mt Rainier)
6/22/06 10:31am
2827
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WA Cascades West Slopes South (Mt Rainier)
6/13/06 1:19am
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First rate adventure and TR! Successful effort, and well done with excellent photos.
Thanks for the TR bump Kam. There are several un-skied peaks in this area... you should plan on one. Martin Peak, Lyall would be the ones to attempt via this approach (along with Dark peak...
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March 18th, 2021... Interesting reading these old TR's.
As of this date, I'm 63 and at the time we did this trip, I was 51. Back then, no thought was given to working all day, dri...
Just saw your excellent report. This approach was the one that inspired the Holden approach! Another friend and I attempted to do a climbing traverse from Dark to Bonanza and had our butts...
Brings back lots of fond memories of the area... Nice report and pic's.Got cliffed out once in a major way on a cloud/foggy descent off of Snow Lake.
Very nice report, and as usual, great photo's.
Great TR and looks like a very cool place off the beaten path. Thanks for sharing and will add this to the list of places in the west to ski/check out!
author=Zap link=topic=35981.msg147013#msg147013 date=1457666622]Nice TR and photos. Is there a snow machine in the access? ;) Hi Zap... not for this trip... the tour begins at the Slate River winte...
Hi Zap- this is the local equivalent of Camp Muir ;) It gets skied a ton. And yes, let the young put in the track, and test the slope! Good news is, this is a sliver of the available...
sorry, I never figured out how to post more than 3 pics...from the view on top, Mt Crested Butte (the ski resort) is off to the left (east). Whetstone is off to the right/south. Whetstone is a beaut...
Sounds a lot like some of the classic Deer Valley backcountry epics.
Looking back, I'm guessing it'll be a while before this one is repeated. Unless sking some of the other nearby un-skied peaks. It takes about 3 hours driving from Seattle to get to the lau...
Lift-accessed Skiing Reports: non-backcountry (in-bounds and frontcountry)Please post backcountry trip reports in the appropriate monthly backcountry board.Got it that more people read this vs the tak...
Great pic of Silverton down in the distance in the 2cnd or so photo. I have a customer in Durango and always look forward to driving the million dollar hwy south out of Ouray thru Silverton from CB,...
Hi Jane, should this be maybe posted in the lift accessed section? Am I misreading? Thx!
Ok, that was cool... I see a drone in my immediate future! Need to research, but can one follow you automatically/do they have a tether function? As in set at "follow me from 1...
Ha- I can put the hurt on people younger than me, and know some older folks that can leave me behind on the uphill. So guess it's how fit you are 8)So is the area accessed from a lift, or do yo...
How long does it take to skin up there?
Way to keep the streak going Andy! ScottK and I skied with you on the 10th year mark. Are you at / near 15 or 16 now?If you're ever in SW CO, give me a shout... It feels like...
Beautiful photos! We did a clockwise circumnavigation in '09. Pandora's Box had set up much differently that year and I recall the down climb into the couloir was a little fright...
Map of route... Dark Peak is located behind Bonanza Peak and guarded by long approaches from any side with no real trail system to the base of the peak. There is a trace trail up the Swamp...
http://vimeo.com/34057423From a dry year, but in the resort. You can access this 4th class climb by walking or skinning (before the lifts open... Then they frown), or by taking a lift to...
Maybe anti PNW in terms of clouds vs. sunshine, but anti PNW in terms of beautiful? Don't think so! Beautiful if you like a narrow canyon, a busy and very noisy interstate. Come to Crested Bu...
Hi Mike- Nice report, nice ski.... in WA on an abbreviated ski vacation.... there's still at least one un-skied peak here. Sally and I were on Grays last Sunday and got the sho...
In southern CO town of Salida this weekend trying to ski one of the Sawatch peaks. Very , very low snow year here, so nice to see Chair Peak holding so much snow. Nice pic's.... ...
It's a wildcat.
TR of the year...
Great job Scott and Andrew... great adventure and ski tour full of solitude.
Hi Jim- yes, the Cristo Couloir is the route you're referring to. It was still frozen when we left, and we were parked at a different trail-head, but it looked inviting from the top ....