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Honey Badger tour, 1/26-27/14

Forest has a way of picking the perfect adventures given the time, season, conditions etc…

Kind of like those people who are really good at picking the right sort of ice cream to go with a specific meal, or cheese with wine.

1/27/14 7:42am

Big Steve

Good work, guys. Clark is long ways in this time of year. Franklin would have loved it.

1/27/14 6:55am

blackdog102395

author=vogtski link=topic=30446.msg127615#msg127615 date=1390666994]
You need a permit for overnight camping. Parking allowed only at Narada & Paradise.
http://www.nps.gov/mora/planyourvisit/upload/Winter-Camping-Nov13-Wmap.pdf

So, if you obtain an overnight camping permit, but for whatever reason you decide to come after 5PM but prior to 9AM, have you broken the rules? Hmm...

1/27/14 6:46am

Pete A

Honey Badger tour, 1/26-27/14

camping permits are free... you get them at Longmire...and the paperwork only takes about 5 minutes. (climbing permits cost money though)

Last I heard, car camping isn't officially allowed in the parking lot (though I think the boy scouts regularly do large group campouts that are only a stones throw from the parking lot).

1/27/14 6:33am

danpeck

Nicely done and a perfect way to honor Frank's legacy!

There is definitely good skiing out there eh?

1/27/14 6:23am

clymbon

author=vogtski link=topic=30446.msg127615#msg127615 date=1390666994]
You need a permit for overnight camping. Parking allowed only at Narada & Paradise.
http://www.nps.gov/mora/planyourvisit/upload/Winter-Camping-Nov13-Wmap.pdf

Do they let you sleep in your vehicle? (I have a VW Camper.) That might be the solution to the gate problem - drive up in the evening before 5:00 pm, sleep in the van, get up early...

1/27/14 6:03am

savegondor

January 25, 2014, Heliotrope Ridge

What exactly is the 'turtle'? is that the aspect just east of Van Trump where one might slide right back into Nisqually?

1/27/14 5:52am

dberdinka

Index was amazing on Saturday. T-shirts and bone dry rock! :D

On a more somber note there was serious (but not fatal) accident on the north side of Baker Saturday near the Hogsback. A long uncontrolled slide on ice was what I heard.

1/27/14 5:17am

Jason4

January 25, 2014, Heliotrope Ridge

author=Radar link=topic=30505.msg127705#msg127705 date=1390846210]
The saying of the day was "I bet Index is really nice right now...". Still, it was a nice day out for some exercise at least.

Squamish was really nice on Saturday. :D
The rock was warm in the sun, climbing was comfortable in long sleeves as was belaying but it was a bit crowded. The only downside was the sun setting at 445.

1/27/14 4:42am

HillsHaveEyes

1/25/2014, Goat MTN NCNP

Looks like fun. Minor editorial note, Goat isn't within the boundaries of NCNP.

1/27/14 4:32am

savegondor

Was up there this weekend and every parking spot was filled. Cars were still driving up at 3pm, folks were having fun sledding and snowshoeing and the NPS was using labor hours in the form of one NPS worker to inform each and every car that went up that they had to be back down before 5pm.

In my pent up frustrations I did ask when this policy was going to end and the nice NPS gal said, "maybe not till late April. We'd like to stay open according to sunlight but w...

1/27/14 4:29am

blackdog102395

author=Floater link=topic=30520.msg127688#msg127688 date=1390832396]
Amar - I admit the skiing was quite decent, very nice corn the last two days I skied on the southerly type aspects. However, I am not going to rave about it since this is the time of the year when we should be ghost skiing, hat skiing or at least here in the Northwest getting the occasional face shot and building a decent snowpack for our water inventory.

The mountain looks like...

1/27/14 4:11am

RonL

January 25, 2014, Heliotrope Ridge

It was a terrific day to ski up there on Friday. I am glad I ran into you and the others. Thanks again for the car shuttle from the bridge.

1/27/14 3:25am

Radar

We made it up to about 9k feet on Saturday after bailing on Shuksan via WS the night before. Turned around due to time (we slept in...oops). Good styrafoam snow above the usual bench where everyone camps and skinning wasn't terrible with the ski pons on. Found a few pockets of wind deposit on the upper Coleman which made for about 5 nice turns; the rest of the descent was on some pretty amazing shine pow.

The saying of the day was "I bet Index is really nice right now...&qu...

1/27/14 2:57am

jtack

January 26, 2014, Rogers Pass, Cougar Mtn Subpeak

Looks and sounds great, thanks for the report, our fingers are crossed that we might get a flake or two of snow (in central WA), at this point, an inch would be a powder day!

1/27/14 2:10am

Charlie Hagedorn

:)! A few other parties have skied West Mac -- couldn't dig up the cascadeclimbers TR (Tony Bentley et al.?) in a minute or two.

Great choice for this weather.

1/27/14 2:09am

cstefanic

Nice meeting you up there, Amar, and thanks for all of the pictures.

1/27/14 1:30am

Jake the Brit

Rainier, Jan 24-25, up Gib Ledges, ID summit ski

The madness of it all.....
ribbon in the sky'

(Scurlock from '03 Nov...')

1/27/14 1:26am

dahu

Well done Loren and Juya! And very nice report!

1/27/14 1:13am

dahu

Excellent Forest! Petite traversee atlantique pour taquiner le nord-ouest sauvage!

1/26/14 11:50pm

skykilo

Nice one, Forest. It sure is spectacular on top of West Mac.

1/26/14 11:46pm

Oyvind_Henningsen

Way to go Forest ! Yeah, the relief exposure on W Mac is something to behold ;-)

1/26/14 11:26pm

Oyvind_Henningsen

you sure are getting after it Amar, love it !

1/26/14 11:22pm

Floater

Amar - I admit the skiing was quite decent, very nice corn the last two days I skied on the southerly type aspects. However, I am not going to rave about it since this is the time of the year when we should be ghost skiing, hat skiing or at least here in the Northwest getting the occasional face shot and building a decent snowpack for our water inventory.

The mountain looks like it normally does in September up high and the snow pack is a joke in most places here in the P...

1/26/14 11:20pm

Amar Andalkar