Nov 8, 2005, Alpental - Dawn Patrol

Nice nice!  I'm so, so pleased I couldn't pull it off this morning.  Fine work, all.

Nice work, guys. Anyone up for another patrol this Friday?

Let's see how the weather goes - they're talking 9000' freezing level and rain the next couple of days.

Sorry I missed you guys - 6:20 would have left me with about 2 hours of sleep. I started skinning at about 11:00 AM, followed a nice skin track up lower International to a little above the saddle, where it abruptly ended. Broke trail up Upper International in the fog which was quite laborious - not-even-close-to-wall-to-wall skins on Teledaddies would lose traction suddenly if angle got too steep or edges found harder snow below (cut for 84mm waist R:EX's) which made smashing my knee into the shovel of my skis fairly common.

Layers on International were well bonded, with a few point releases both natural and skier-induced but no slabbing. Snow depth on lower International about 4', upper part was closer to 5' with wind deposit.

It actually cleared up for most of the descent - turns were excellent on Upper Nash and not bad at all on lower, but beware of buried obstacles and streambeds lower down.

Daniel and Skip (and others)
Depending on weather, I could do a dawn patrol or all day Friday.

Way to get the goods there Cass.

Jessica

way to ski it down to the base all week guys!!! ;)

wipe, Carter and J.  sorry to missed you guys.  my excuse was traffic...   ;)

Now that was some good Act-shon. Thanks to Wheep-A for organizing the entourage. Nice way to grease the groove in terms of getting the winter a started. I am totally sold on the dawn patrol phenomena.
Look forward to an even larger posse in the coming weeks.

J