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March 21, 2007, Pickhandle point, Crystal

3/21/07
WA Cascades West Slopes South (Mt Rainier)
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Posted by Kyle Miller on 3/23/07 12:33pm
Had to take advantage of the Pow and Blue bird so Took a group of three up to Pickhandle point and Decided to head into the Morse Creek area. At first it seemed sun affected but not too sloppy yet so the first person in our crew dropped in and after a few turns caused a wet slide down the main face into a huge drainage which ran about 1000 feet So we carefully went one by one making sure no one was was in anyone elses slide path. We all rode down Slowly and Carefull because every turn on steep caused a wet slide dropped almost two thousand feet then back through bear gap and ended the day with a North Facing run which had Way better conditions. Scary conditions but awesome terrain


[Edited title --Charles]

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