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"then let's get tons of fuel and go here!"

HAHAHAHA!

Awesome trip!  Fun fact: Seattle City Light's Steam Plant has enough steam lines running under the streets that a few blocks of the downtown core stay snow free, which was most evident in the 2008 storm.

You are predicting the future with tomorrows date. ;) Congrats on getting out again! Did you see a lad and his dog Tucker up there? He started up early to beat the heat so you may have missed him.

Such an amazing trip.

Will never forget this classic quote from a certain professional skier

Q: Hi....so where in Iceland are you from?

A: Hi....My name is Kyle Miller and I am from Seattle, Washington.

Thanks for the great read and pictures.  You went out with one of the best for a couple of trips and were ready to launch out on your own afterwards.  That is what it is all about.  Good luck on further adventures and hopefully you will post more great TR.

Absolutely.  My first few guided experiences were really private North Cascade Mountain school classes.  At least that is the way I viewed them.  And I still intend to do many guided trips in terrain that I am still uncomfortable in.  It's all about knowing your limits and then expanding those limits responsibly (in my case I have a wife and 4 kids :)  ) 

It's funny because my friends commented that this tour felt a lot easier than the Isolatio...

Awesome super-adventure!  What a journey...

Update from 5/10. Road is driveable to the TH. Not much snow until you get near the upper Bean Creek Basin. Plenty of snow after that. Corn was in excellent shape on 5/10 at 2 pm.

DAY EIGHT:

Woke up, same routine.  Melt snow, drink water, coffee, and eat a good breakfast.  We had decided the day before to head back up to the same zone.  Just a bit further east to hit another coulie we had spotted.  As with everything in Alaska it looked much closer than it was. 

Travel was quick though and before we knew it we were at the bottom.  I was feeling good and kicked steps to the top.

Headlee Pass skiing in June


https://vimeo.com/68019658

We had a great time there in late June 2 years ago. 26 hours plane to plane of almost continuous hiking. Found a 130 year bakery with awesome sandwiches. Saw some old ski tracks up high on some snow fields. And it isn't that far of a flight. And at least it usually snows, rather than Norway's rain.

I've noticed significant changes in the Coleman headwall area over the last several years.  That upper search area definitely seems to be falling apart in a hurry. The final steep bit on the headwall had melted down to rock last fall in the first time that I remember. There was also a large tongue of ice further east before the Northridge that has completely disappeared in the last 10 to 15 years. Would be interesting to assemble a chronology of photos taken from the Heliotrope area to docu...

Elliot knew he was capable of the line  but just was not feeling it and decided to ride out the col. 

The single best statement I have read on TAY or other sites.  Shows wisdom and rational decision making even in the face of the majority making a different decisions.  Well done, Elliot.  :)

Nice report,  like the HOT springs  ;)

Too bad we missed you Saturday, but consider we woke up to catch our flight around the time you went to sleep I wouldn't have lasted long.  Whale was great.

kyle packs a mean lunch!


iceland's westfjord tunnel system is impressive in its length (over 9km), intimidating in its width (mostly one shared for bidirectional traffic), and unique in its complexity (don't le...

Great TR and photos plus the Map Route.  ;)

Map of route...  Dark Peak is located behind Bonanza Peak and guarded by long approaches from any side with no real trail system to the base of the peak.  There is a trace trail up the Swamp Creek drainage, kind of, but it ends in a maze of slide alder / vine maple.  Then there's a 4th class tree climb to gain the glacier. 

So we concocted this other route after reading Jason and Forest's Bonanza Peak TR (actually, saw the Company creek photo's).