March 7-8, 2008, Silverstar
3/7/08
WA Cascades East Slopes North
1999
5
Chasing the sun, Snoslut and I decended on Silverstar. A long, dark skin in yielded a day of windpack powder under bluebird skies. We skinned in late Friday night from winthrop to avoid snowmobiles, and made camp at silverstar creek. Dropped our overnight stuff off at the basin ~4500' and continued up to the saddle. The ski down was some nice, wind packed pow. It took us a while to get up due to snow conditions, so made it back to the basin just as it got dark; and then skied out sunday.
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Looked nice up there! Bummer about your binding.
Do you have ski crampons? They can make all the difference on wind packed snow - like having tank treads (versus postholing in boots!). I was just wondering if they didn't work on your tour for some reason, or if you don't have them (I see from the "shattered" thread that you at least have bindings that should take some crampons...
Do you have ski crampons? They can make all the difference on wind packed snow - like having tank treads (versus postholing in boots!). I was just wondering if they didn't work on your tour for some reason, or if you don't have them (I see from the "shattered" thread that you at least have bindings that should take some crampons...
Ski crampons would have been a good idea, forgot them at home....
Eli-
Sorry to hear about your binding! Nice photos from the trip though! Your trip blogs are great to read!
Scott
Sorry to hear about your binding! Nice photos from the trip though! Your trip blogs are great to read!
Scott
Does snoslut have any ski crampons that work on his splitboard (memory is telling me that's what he uses, but I have to admit I'm not positive)? Or would you have just had to choose between slogging with him or leaving him in the dust if you'd brought yours ;D?
Yes Jim I have crampons for my splits. Left them at home cause if you have to skin using crampons, sometimes its easier to just boot. Shortest distance between 2 points is a straight line. Plus I drug up my harness n gear, ice axe, crampons, helmet. I would be damned if I didn't at least incorporate one of those items. Sure we could have skinned to the col but that would have been easy.
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