June 5, 2011, Silver Star Mt
6/5/11
WA Cascades East Slopes North
2122
4
Seems like everyone has been hitting Silver Star the last couple weeks. I found out it was good reason. A great ski day.
Climbed Silver Star Mt with a fun group of Mountaineers. Left the Silver Star Creek parking area at 5:45 with several cars ahead of us. No snow at the parking area, but only 45minutes or so until continuous snow began. Skinned continuously from 4200-ft to 8600-ft summit col. Ski crampons were delightful as was the snow conditions.
We were very surprised at how stable the conditions appeared. There was a few small cornice collapses, but the snowpack was surprisingly firm for the top 2-3 ft.
Booted the final couple hundred feet from the col up to the summit. Put the skis on at the summit and skied down a fun icy line. A little billy goating through the crux and then open and nice. From the col down the snow was a sweet 2-4" of creamy goodness. More pics here and
droppin off the summit block, snow the whole way! (Pic by Vlad)
Sunny day (Pic by Vlad)
Looking down the lower half of the summit pitch (Pic by Iron)
silver star panorama
Climbed Silver Star Mt with a fun group of Mountaineers. Left the Silver Star Creek parking area at 5:45 with several cars ahead of us. No snow at the parking area, but only 45minutes or so until continuous snow began. Skinned continuously from 4200-ft to 8600-ft summit col. Ski crampons were delightful as was the snow conditions.
We were very surprised at how stable the conditions appeared. There was a few small cornice collapses, but the snowpack was surprisingly firm for the top 2-3 ft.
Booted the final couple hundred feet from the col up to the summit. Put the skis on at the summit and skied down a fun icy line. A little billy goating through the crux and then open and nice. From the col down the snow was a sweet 2-4" of creamy goodness. More pics here and
droppin off the summit block, snow the whole way! (Pic by Vlad)
Sunny day (Pic by Vlad)
Looking down the lower half of the summit pitch (Pic by Iron)
silver star panorama
Pat, that was a great day, but your descent off the tip top was the highlight. And of course you know that I would have been right behind you but I did not have the right wax. I also did not have my brown pants! Which is why I carried my skis back down to the saddle.
It was a really fun climb. I'm not sure about putting wax on your skis though, it might add too much weight ;)
ah ha! so you're the cowboy... saw iron's TR. Good to make that connection, not sure how trees and cowboys mix, but damn that looks like a fun run down!
Finally found someone with good overall shots... Larry got a couple:
Looking up
The view dropping in
Looking up
The view dropping in
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