Was thinking of heading up to Baker for some skimo training, anyone know of any good, steep, direct routes up table mtn?
Not sure if you're serious...
What distance do you want and what's your objective?
If you want to go from the Heather Meadows parking lot to Artist point I'd recommend the standard route that follows the north boundary of the ski area, your first 10 minutes might be on a groomer, watch out for downhill traffic. The climb up to the Austin/Blueberry boundary gate from Terminal Lake is decently steep. From there follow the obvious ridge top towards Table. Martha's Ladder is just a couple of minutes out of the ski area and is another steep pitch, if it's already been mauled by snowshoers then go left at the bottom of Martha's ladder in the same direction as the road but cut the switchback short. This should get you close enough to the AP parking lot to figure out the rest depending on where you want to go.
If you want to ski into the bowl towards Bagley Lake (probably terrible skiing, frozen corn with a light dusting on top of it this weekend) then take the 5 minutes to skin from the lake up towards the interpretive center (Granny's house) to Terminal Lake and back up the ridge instead of direct up the north side of Table.
If you just want to pound steep, frozen laps PM me and I'll give you a couple other ideas.
