Moving to Seattle, skiing and climbing!

I saw your car (Pacific Pile?) with the huskie in it outside the Naches on Saturday I believe. I live next to the bar holdin' down the block in Greenwater Proper.

-Trevor

Yep, that would be me. Hope to see ya there sometime!

Back to my thread.

When Moving from Austin, TX. I'll be heading up Through NM to Albq, then to Twin Falls, ID then through Yakima to Issaquah.

It being Early - Mid March when I do the move, is there any type of snow stuff that I need to be aware of when doing this? I'm used to driving in TX so dealing with a 12ft trailer + my car and 3 loud cats is going to be a pain and would like to avoid adding 10 hours onto the trip but also want to make it super safe for me and the animals.

Basically anyone know the areas and know if i'll run into any nasty snow roads on the trip? You can google Austin Texas to Issaquah WA and should get you an idea of the route.

One thing, How am i going to fare with my RWD jeep

I'm assuming i'm gonna need chains, but will I be getting stuck a lot with RWD?

The WSDOT requires *all* vehicles to carry chains on mountain roads from Nov 1st through April 1st -- sometimes they extend those times depending on conditions.

That said the number of times I've actually had to put on chains on chains in 50 years of skiing can be counted without using all my fingers.

But learning to drive on snow takes to practice -- I suggest that you do what my dad had me do when I was learning to drive -- head for the Ski Acres / Summit Central main parking lot on a Sunday night when it is snow covered and empty. Then practice accelerating, turning, braking, getting into and out of a four wheel drift. I learned to do this in a VW bus -- when the lot is at all icy it's pretty easy to spin 720's in that VW Bus -- despite the lack of power. Imagine my disappointment when I took my 4WD Honda CRV up and tried to do the same -- it just doesn't want to spin out -- no fun at all.

Back to my thread.

When Moving from Austin, TX. I'll be heading up Through NM to Albq, then to Twin Falls, ID then through Yakima to Issaquah.

It being Early - Mid March when I do the move, is there any type of snow stuff that I need to be aware of when doing this? I'm used to driving in TX so dealing with a 12ft trailer + my car and 3 loud cats is going to be a pain and would like to avoid adding 10 hours onto the trip but also want to make it super safe for me and the animals.

Basically anyone know the areas and know if i'll run into any nasty snow roads on the trip? You can google Austin Texas to Issaquah WA and should get you an idea of the route.

Forget chains... if you hit snow, tie a cat to each rear wheel ( like real skins). Should work just fine and you'll have one cat left!

Forget chains... if you hit snow, tie a cat to each rear wheel ( like real skins). Should work just fine and you'll have one cat left!

you'll be rolling on meow-meows with pussy to spare... welcome to the PNW new guy.

Also since i'll be moving in March, I'm going to need a list of peaks to bag my first year that are wicked fun.

My goal is to get up on Rainier and climb it once a month if weather permits, but i'll still need other peaks to climb (not ski) if anyone here has any good suggestions.

I may take my skis to Helen's but that's about the extent of my skiing (or muir snow field) I don't even feel comfortable going down pan face on skis yet.