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looking good Zack!

Here is a link to a few of the pics I captured along our trip. Hopefully We will have a short video up in a few days.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10205935578287612.1073741866.1204161047&type=3

few pix from trip, the line, the man, & the exit diversionary tactics

Nice one.

Yeah, winch cats are perhaps the greatest hazard to skiing a resort during off-hours. Skiing near a winch cat is perhaps also the best way to endanger uphill access, as the presence of public near a winch cat makes blatantly obvious the liability to the ski resort.

I'm sure you were careful, as you had an idea of what you were looking at. Nevertheless, when a winch cat driver sees a skier, he's thinking about you getting decapitated at speed.

Thanks all!

author=Norseman link=topic=33711.msg139365#msg139365 date=1424442453]Were you not able to roll-start the battery-dead subie?

I thought about and it may have been possible with our old, fully manual car. But this new car is all automatic and the stick is locked when the car is not on (new discovery). It's apparently possible to release it with a long screw driver, but I couldn't get to it as it was in the trun...

Awesomeness!!! :-) :-) :-)

Awesome trip and beautiful photos! makes me want to go explore this area myself.

Nice, but I was expecting some Skynrd.

Way to get after it, Poppy!! Us old geezers are gonna have a hard time keeping up with you in a few years ;)

Super smoooooth.

Wow, that's quite a day! Thanks for sharing your gps and amazing photos!

You are hereby awarded 1st place in this year's Dirtfest.   ;)

I am hoping to visit the Enchantments some time soon for sight-seeing and to experience the place -- probably camping for two nights. Given the current conditions, would you suggest traveling by skis or on foot? We don't have ski crampons and were thinking winter boots with yak tracks.  I'd like to pull a sled... Thanks for the advice! Great report.

Photos from the trip:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/runningclouds/sets/72157648523602204/

Another great Goat adventure by Chapins!  (Last one here)

Sure to inspire more Goat Rock trips with jumper-boxes.  Chris is the best jumper-box, however.

Motivated by your racing spirit... skinned to the top of chair 2 on Tuesday, February 17th (ski crampons required the whole way).  Rock hard boiler plate, rocks, bushes and small trees. Only soft snow was the top 2/3 of Edelweiss Bowl in the sun and facing ESE.  I was racing against the tower maintenance guy who was greasing the wheels of chair 2.  He said it was good karma to bring winter to the northwest... This year!  Hope he's right!!!

great post man. way to get after it!

Too funny, nothing like some serious boiler plate to dampen even the most determined skies fun, thanks for the post.

Even if the snow was not perfect, your tracks are, nice work.

I reckon from the distinguishing features, that the dot in the 3rd picture is me!

Thanks everyone! :-) Gotta love 3 day weekends!

Nicely done! :)

We were able to drive up the road all the way to continuous snow, which starts near a big debris pile ~ .2 mi past the Tomyhoi trailhead. Some of that lower snow is melting out fast, and the road will probably be patchy next week. Skinning to the lookout was a cake and only took a few hours. Larrabee still has a solid snowpack, although we didn't ski any lower than the uptrack. Looked like you could keep going down to the valley but we weren't sure which ways might cliff out.