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Nice to see you and Zack there. I'll post some shots late as my internet is down now.

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Is tucking really worth the vertical effort?

For me, getting my endurance exercise is climbing the vertical.  For me, going fast and getting air is my way of escaping the deep valleys of life.  I like to look at it as giving myself a natural anti-depressant, the faster and bigger I go, the bigger dose I give myself.

Frickin awesome!

Now wipe off those smile before entering public spaces...

Nice seeing you up there Silas. A superb day - here are a few pictures:

Awesome trip report: Check!
Kudos for getting your TAY membership: Check!
SWEET!

Congrats!!

Oh, absolutely. It's all about balance.

Great TR and photos and "checks".  ;)

I forgot to take a photo of the official plaque. It's there.

It was a good day out despite the visibility, as whiteout skiing goes this was one of the more enjoyable session, the slope was even and predictable, the snow was very forgiving and there was, most of the time, a tiny visual spec of reference to stay up. And when it disappeared; well a first fall of the season was recorded.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/runningclouds/sets

Good to see people out despite the weather, we probably crossed tracks KW.
Happy and safe ski sea...

You don't get snow like that on the Magic Mile very often.

We had a good day out there too. Made it up to 10k and skied variable wind buff down to about 9,500 and then had nice turns from there. Weather was pleasant but windy above the cloud deck. We made the error of trying Pan Face on the way down and ended up with some nice base shots. Great day though and we were skiing in tanks most of the way up until the wind hit around 8,500. Not a bad day for October!

I've had one of those days in October, as well.  It's all about knowing when the pull the plug.

Great skiing and weather today -- amazing how broken up the Nisqually is after this last summer.

Beautiful. 

Guy in your vid probably isn't a TAY member.  We're friendly & stop to say hello. 

Hoping against the warm weather forecast. 

 

oh my God! Looks like I was a day early!! Wow. Too bad I work weekdays!! Awesome!

Looks quite nice.

looks like a blustery day.  I wonder if you ran into jtack up there?  I'm glad you got to ski.  Thanks for the report and photos!

I think this sums it up pretty well.

I'm glad I was home with a banged up knee. Efficient travel, mountains covered with fresh snow, some powder turns...it's way overrated. A reason to be on the couch, a bag of Tim's awesomely calorie loaded chips, and a billion adds between World Series half innings... that's where it's at, man.

Hey Mike,

Debbie & I were through there on a backpack earlier this month and I almost sent you a picture of the old scratchy snow above Lyman lakes since you had talked about wanting to go out there soon.  I figured you were lining up for another suffer fest.

But it looks like you nailed it!

-Dave

Nice pictures, Erik! Thanks for the advice on skiing far right side, there were some fun drifts to play on.

It was great to meet you all up there!

Snow was good wind-buff above Moon Rocks, worth grabbing that second lap. Below that was still good, except for scoured areas where a brutal rain crust lurked. I thought it was actually pretty good skiing for Muir. Friday was 'the day' and I'm glad you nudged me to go, Erik!

Great report and pics!  A few of us made the same call on the weather; a well-timed high-pressure is an opportunity hard to pass up.  Overall a very modest number of people yesterday.

There were definitely some smile-earning turns up there, but a lot of survival skiing, as well.  We joked that the crux of the trip was getting from the car to the steps at the edge of the Paradise parking lot without slipping on the death ice.

37F and raining at our well-timed...

Wow that looks great! glad the weather worked out...held out for us at rainier as well until the cloud ceiling came down at ~3ish

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After seeing this I am intrigued about this trip. How far is the hike to the glacier?

Timbo it is in the neighborhood of 5 miles to Peggy's Pond and another mile or so to the bottom of the glacier.  With the new snow we just got, you might be able to skin from Peggy's Pond now, but probably not ski back to it.  I think there still is not enough...