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author=Jonathan_S. link=topic=32103.msg134935#msg134935 date=1406337678]
Miserable weather August 15 with you and Jeanette on Muir.
Then perfect weather with you on August 22 when your binding broke.

AHA. So I was RIGHT!
My stroke feebled brain did fail me ::)
I forgot we did two weekends in a row!!
Must have been because I promised you good weather if you would hang around another week eh? :)

7/29/14 11:55am

Jonathan_S.

Miserable weather August 15 with you and Jeanette on Muir.
Then perfect weather with you on August 22 when your binding broke.

(I started keeping track of my ski days back in 1976 when our elementary school class was studying graphing...)

7/28/14 12:12pm

ron j

author=Jonathan_S. link=topic=32103.msg134931#msg134931 date=1406331887]
BTW Ron, this summer marks the 15th anniversary of when I tagged along with you and Jeanette on the Muir Snowfield -- the weather was horrible, the suncups were horrible, but after that tour, I was hooked, so I have you to thank!

Thanks for remembering, Jonathan. You're welcome.

Didn't I break a binding on that trip?
But if my geria...

7/27/14 12:22pm

Jonathan_S.

July 15, Baker, Easton

Cool picture guys. kw’eq sámit!

7/27/14 12:02pm

Onward.

Hi all, any update on conditions on the paradise? Crevasses, sun cups, how much carrying etc.?

Oh, and the turns of course

Thanks

7/27/14 11:58am

Jonathan_S.

author=Patarero link=topic=32103.msg134926#msg134926 date=1406318030]
Top of the mountain got frosted with fresh this past wed.

Hood on Thursday morning had overnight freshies from the base of the Palmer on up.
(Although above the mid-station the fresh snow had been blown around a lot, especially given the smoothly groomed surface.)
So Adams should also have benefited from that.
(Or are you talking about Wednesday o...

7/27/14 10:46am

ron j

Thanks for making the trip out, Jonathan,
Had we known in advance that you were coming we would have dialed in a little better weather for your visit :)

7/27/14 2:11am

Patarero

July 2-3, 2014, Mt Baker, Squak Glacier

Top of the mountain got frosted with fresh this past wed.

7/26/14 9:14pm

LukerBee

oh the commentating...

7/25/14 9:53pm

Charlie Hagedorn

July 19, Navajo Snowfield, 13,100', IPW, CO

:).

7/25/14 2:59pm

MW88888888

July 19, Navajo Snowfield, 13,100', IPW, CO

On the way out...

7/25/14 10:52am

mikerolfs

July 23 and 24, Mount Hood (a very wet Palmer...)

534,800'. That's a pretty impressive season.

7/25/14 10:21am

tim place

Gotta be Zap!

7/25/14 10:12am

avajane

July 19-20, 2014, Middle Sister, SE

I would suggest that those turns could only have been made by John Dougherty from Edmonds. Not sure he climbs though...

7/25/14 9:59am

danpeck

Nice one!

Such a magic area.

7/25/14 8:50am

danpeck

July 18, 2014, Daniel again

Mike… wish I could have made it. Always looking for a noble excuse to ski eh?

7/25/14 8:44am

flowing alpy

July 19-20, 2014, Middle Sister, SE

snow guard looks like he grew up at alpental!

7/25/14 6:55am

telemack

Nice TR, Cigdem. It's good to know there is still some snow in Oregon. The CA volcanoes were past it weeks ago.

7/25/14 4:53am

PS44

So funny!

7/25/14 12:35am

BrianT

June 1, 2014, Mt. Rainier, Fuhrer Finger

Much Less snow!

Ok it's not really that bad, but I don't suspect the lil patch of snow above the lake in the bowl will be in next weekend. It was pretty iffy yesterday (Sunday) when I was out there.

Also be wary of the snow guard

7/25/14 12:15am

mikerolfs

I enjoyed the video. Keep 'em coming!

7/24/14 2:24pm

Mtraslin

July 15, Baker, Easton

Good one.

Always good to know the updated conditions of Mt Baker.

7/24/14 10:22am

kamtron

a short cornice-hucking video from our trip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn7zCBFYFO8

7/23/14 2:02am

kamtron

Good stuff!

7/22/14 2:56pm

the_sleeve

Much less snow now but cheap turns are still available here.

7/22/14 8:23am

Jonn-E

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The Flett:

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Upper Russell and bottom of crazy lenticular:

[img width=1000 height=664]https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-36OMUWGRFlA/U80x5z5nxgI/AAAAAAAADrI/C8mSj...

7/22/14 6:19am

Jonn-E

I skied the Flett too on Saturday, but ascended the ridge to the east. I was shoulder carrying my skis away from the wind at one point and they endo-ed right over the top! I also lost a skin bag to the wind if anyone finds it (red G3). Those lenticulars were the gnarliest I've seen and when I dropped the Flett at ~2:30 they were capping the whole mountain in stacks down to 10k. Between that, the howling wind up high, and the occasional white-out it was a clear GTFO signal.

7/22/14 4:54am

iluka

An update on the upper Russell Glacier from our trip today... can't say much about the approach to it as we were in pea soup until about 7K and couldn't get a good sense of the coverage below the Flett. We managed to find enough snow above 6200 to keep skis on with the exception of some short carries until getting up to Echo and Observation Rocks.

We got up to the basin below the Russell Glacier Headwall at 9400 feet. Great turns off the slopes coming down from that point wi...

7/22/14 12:48am

PS44

July 18, 2014, Daniel again

Looks nice, Peter. You had a quite a show of cloud formations. That flowing lenticular looks awesome.

7/21/14 12:58pm

PS44

Mike,
nice to meet you and Moxie. You were right skiing on Friday was great; corn with small suncups (size A-B). The wind higher up, however, was ferocious forcing me to retreat. The weather definitely turned making for an unsettled and drizzly night and quite hard morning snow. Not wanting to slip on the hard snow, I lit out of there on Saturday first under sunny and later cloudy skies. Met two other skiers; hopefully the weather on Sunday calmed down for them. This place is a gem b...

7/21/14 6:46am

rlsg

That's what I'm talkin' about!

7/21/14 5:44am

mikerolfs

wow that second photo! Looks like a wild horse to me.

7/21/14 4:48am

allenat@ylor

That explains why they stitched together so well!

7/21/14 4:40am

chieftaffy

Awesome lenticular shots!

7/21/14 1:52am

wolfs

I was the skier you met at the bottom of the run where the Park gets nearly flat (hi).

From that marvelous moment of clearing on, it was never clear again for the next 4 hours, and got steadily cloudier with several cloud decks involved. Suck! I did make it onto the Russell, about 3PM. And at that moment the viz there was pretty good, because the fog sort of stopped at the Russell divide, albeit it was still under a 9K-level cloud deck that flattened the light. Could at least see glac...

7/21/14 1:13am

Norseman

Ha, no problem. The photos in the original post were cropped from a single shot. I should've posted it to save you the trouble!

7/21/14 12:34am

T. Eastman

Holy yawning abysses Batman!

7/20/14 2:03pm

Charlie Hagedorn

Somebody had fun!

Here's what they look like stitched together.

Full-resolution stitch here : https://flic.kr/p/ooFNSr

PM me, Norseman, if you'd like me to take these down.

7/20/14 1:45pm

mikerolfs

17 k of good corn plus fun pond skimming

Someone got their money's worth. That's a lot of turns!

7/20/14 11:51am

Griff

Really nice skiing and vid bros. Thanks!!

Shared on my site 7/19/14:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Shot-8-Freeride-Team/561702940520155

7/20/14 8:32am

JimD

July 11, 2014, Table Mountain

I was up there the last couple days and it was still pretty damn good, very small bumps (not cups), no real stickiness. We booted up to the ridge from 4th Crossing, but with a couple carries could ski down to within a 5 min. walk of the car (without meadow mashing).

Goat families

Skiing Paradise Glacie...

7/20/14 5:51am

kamtron

Extreme suncups!

7/20/14 3:47am

str8ryder

July 11, 2014, Table Mountain

Car shuttles on artist point! WTF???

7/20/14 3:46am

tabski

Fantastiche!

7/20/14 2:54am

jtack

Thanks! for the wonderful photos, you sure have a great eye

7/20/14 2:40am

mikerolfs

July 12-13, 2014, Mt. Daniels fun harvest

author=PhilH link=topic=32078.msg134830#msg134830 date=1405463989]
We were camped at Robin Lakes over the weekend and took a picture of you guys on Saturday morning (well, sort of). Anyway, here's a look at Mt. Daniel from the east. Plodding along of foot I was envious that you had those snowfields all to yourselves.

Phil your photo is awesome! What a planning tool. I can see several runs that I need to go back a...

7/19/14 10:39pm

jtack

Nice work you guys, green with envy, SUPER MOON!!

7/19/14 3:25pm

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