July 3, 2006, Snowdome + sunshine Route Mt Hood

Great trip. 

Jill and I are heading for Mt. Hood later this week and plan to ski Snowdome again.  Was the snow level at Cloud Cap or did you have to hike up ?  Did you ski down Langille Bowl ?

Thanks,  Zap

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Was the snow level at Cloud Cap or did you have to hike up ?  Did you ski down Langille Bowl ?

Hiked up Cooper spur to 6900' and then dropped down onto remaining snow on the Elliot.  Crossed over the moraine at 7500' still on snow to Cloud Cap.  Coming down caught a finger more south than the main langille down to the Timberline trail.  traversed  on that trail, over Elliot creek snow bridge.  Before hitting the Timberline Trail skied the silly-thin patches making the final link down a mostly open waterfall down to the trail :D.  Imagine you'll have much more hiking in a week or more.

Huge kudos to the party early this weekend who went up there before the road was open all the way -long hike!

Was a beautiful route to the summit with no one around except one friendly pair as we skied down the snow dome.
camera batteries died very early so unfortunately no skiing pics--pic is elliot glacier, snow dome up right.

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a climbing party very early in the day had kicked perfect steps (thank you!!). 

I strive for perfect.  Glad to be off service. 

Did you ski the route as climbed?

thanks so much for those steps !   

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  Did you ski the route as climbed?

Saw at 10200' where you had dug a deadman to negotiate climbing up the snow bridge and steeper 50 degree slope to gain the ridge.  Left our skis at that point.  Wish I would have taken them up that last slope but at the time I wasn't feeling comfortable to have the extra weight to negogiate that no fall zone up the ridge.  Plus I was concerned the ridge route would be tricky.   Oyvind could manage any of this no worries, not me.
Overall Hood was more of an after thought after Rainier earlier that weekend. -- Lacking a good map and me forgetting some critical glacier gear made us more conservative.   Funny there was actually more involved on this route (like the other section just above snodome) than anything on the route up Rainier.