June 8, 2002, Chinook Pass

Morning ,Don't ask why I'm up at this hour on Sunday but I am.(Damn ski dreams !) Old gang DD , Gary ,Bob, Maxine and Robie shamefully destroyed Chinook Pass. Snowing at 3500' as we drove up 4"to 6" new at top and snowing. Robie could not wait and cajoled everybody to ski imediately down the "Valley of no return" to the American river.Not a bad plan as snow would deteriate. We worked our way back up and down across west facing glades of Naches to Little Tipso bowl . We then decided to climb up high under cliff bands and do Gary's "Pack run " down to little Tipsoo. Note: the first time we did this years ago Gary wondering where the fall line was in flat light thew his brand new bright yellow pack down. A good fall line demo and a not so new pack..Any way back to the end as we skied up around to the south shoulder of Tipsoo bowl under a bit of sun here and there. Our last run was on heated spring snow down to the first road hairpin through "Maxine's Gulley". There I hitchiked back to get the car up at the top. We tore up most everything on West side visible from the road . It was a very nostalgic trip.Spitting snow as we left. Lots of coverage still.

Our original intent was to Ski ROBO 6567 but because of reduced vis and wondering of the new snow stickiabilty we skied what we could right away. On the steepest parts our turns wiped away lots .underlying snow was not frozen hard as we guessed . I took one fall where I slid 20' on harder crust . Have a good ski day.

Robie