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author=Chamois link=topic=30242.msg126632#msg126632 date=1389111689]
You just need to change your transportation strategy next time - maybe something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EG7kLjpzsM
It's funny that you said that. We all actually joked about how having ice skates would have been much more appropriate. lesson learned!
i have a job for the man in the middle that appears to be on hold.
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Thanks guys, I really wish that Devin hasn't of forgotten his SLR in the varying light. Oh well it could of been worse, he could have forgot his boots ::)
You just need to change your transportation strategy next time - maybe something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EG7kLjpzsM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EG7kLjpzsM
author=tele.skier link=topic=30240.msg126571#msg126571 date=1389044042]
His casual "Badassery" is obvious to all... as he rockets upward. He's so fast going uphill that the forest service wants to classify him as a heli service. No really, I'm serious...
I've heard the stories of him! If the tales are true he's breathtakingl...
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10202824722558163&l=253313358503958308
A little vid I threw together.
A little vid I threw together.
Way to do the beat-down
>:( Shoulda kept my crampons on!
author=Lowell_Skoog link=topic=30242.msg126619#msg126619 date=1389069153]
:) This is a breeze...
:D I'm trucking now.
;D Wahoo!
??? Um, how do I stop?
:-[ Oh man, this doesn't look good.
:'( Ouch.
>:( Shoulda kept my crampons on!
author=lrudholm link=topic=30242.msg126612#msg126612 date=1389065989]
Wow. That first photo needs to be framed.
Scary how fast you could go if you skied down the road in that condition.
:) This is a breeze...
:D I'm trucking now.
;D Wahoo!
??? Um, how do I stop?
:-[ Oh man, this doesn't look good.
:'( Ouch.
Nice trip report, Frank. Good to see you're getting out.
I slipped on the ice and landed on my back the other day taking the dog for a walk and I think I gave myself whiplash. The ice is an epidemic over here!
Wow. That first photo needs to be framed.
I am so glad you didn't call me! As much as I enjoy our long ski boot walks, that shit looks hideous.
Something about that photo breaks my brain a bit....like the camera shifted during the exposure.
author=mikerolfs link=topic=30242.msg126595#msg126595 date=1389057744]
Trip reports like this just make my heart sing. Keep after it! Good for you for getting it and thank goodness I wasn't there with you. Although if I had been, there is no way I would have let you start up to the col without your skis.
Well thank you very much! It's definitely fun to get out! If you were there I would hope you would have advised me to ju...
Trip reports like this just make my heart sing. Keep after it! Good for you for getting it and thank goodness I wasn't there with you. Although if I had been, there is no way I would have let you start up to the col without your skis.
Also, since the east side of the cascades has been an ice rink for the last month, I have used my Microspikes a lot. For the kind of trail and road walking you were doing, they would have been perfect. Way easier on you...
Also, since the east side of the cascades has been an ice rink for the last month, I have used my Microspikes a lot. For the kind of trail and road walking you were doing, they would have been perfect. Way easier on you...
author=ND link=topic=30242.msg126593#msg126593 date=1389055976]
Also always bring mountaineering boots in the trunk, worst case scenario you look stylish getting beers after.
Yeah....I should really get a pair of those. I only have BC ski boots and hiking boots, and I mostly go ski mountaineering so there's never been a use for mountaineering boots. I think this trip will make me change that tune.
Thank you for convincing me that slide alder was the right choice of approach issues! Also always bring mountaineering boots in the trunk, worst case scenario you look stylish getting beers after.
I was trying not to be gross....but since you mentioned it, here are three more pictures. One climbing related, one hiking with crampons on bullshit ice-trails related, and one....well, really gross related.
@ActiveLifeKC, no comment on the choices... but those are impressive [Instagram] blisters... ;)
Rad!
So did you get any turns in on the north side or did you stop at the saddle? It'd a great basin, but I figured the snowpack was still too thin. Good to know it's in enough.
So did you get any turns in on the north side or did you stop at the saddle? It'd a great basin, but I figured the snowpack was still too thin. Good to know it's in enough.
Man, you got some great shots. Maybe I should hire you to follow me around one day and make me look good!
As the song goes, It's a long way to the top, if you want to ROCK and ROLL.
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That was my first trip up there, that will be the last time on a weekend for sure. or I need to leave the parking lot by 5:00am. But it was fun thinking about the million people over at Stevens. That parking lot was a junk show.
And we had to stop to take some pictures for a nice lady and her dogs.
And we had to stop to take some pictures for a nice lady and her dogs.
author=ND link=topic=30238.msg126577#msg126577 date=1389046047">
So that was two minutes for photos and the other 13 to take in the scenery? ;)
If by "take in" you mean consume and "the scenery" this (well, the tallboy variety), then yes.
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author=pipedream link=topic=30238.msg126567#msg126567 date=1389042157]
the hoard of slowshoers on your tails delayed our first lap by fifteen minutes
groups of athletic women in stretchy ski pants...
So that was two minutes for photos and the other 13 to take in the scenery? ;)
Saw the post on NWH and was confused that it wasn't mirrored over here yet. Excellent shots of what looked to be an excellent tour on an excellent day.
Bonus points for making like the temperature and getting inverted! TR of the year so far, IMHO.
Bonus points for making like the temperature and getting inverted! TR of the year so far, IMHO.
Too bad the high pressure ridge blocking us from our regular winter weather is breaking down - I was hoping to ski icy moguls down Upper Nash before the chairs started turning ;D
when the sticker on the rocketbox in the first photo gives the location away, can you really call it secret, much less supersecret anymore?
Excellent report. I promise not to tell anyone.
Confirming on the stellar sunny conditions. It was a nice contrast between skiing the warmed up Edelweiss bowl and then the cool dry shadowed run down International. Exiting out the lower hill required just a bit of attention and no bases were harmed.
author=pipedream link=topic=30238.msg126567#msg126567 date=1389042157]
If I'm not mistaken, you two were the fastest moving splitboarders I've ever seen.
Right, most are slow as molasses. And more attracted to pow pow than Shoer's in tights.
If I'm not mistaken, you two were the fastest moving splitboarders I've ever seen. You also have the most serendipitious timing, as the hoard of slowshoers on your tails delayed our first lap by fifteen minutes with all their group photo requests ("can you take a picture of us?" "mind taking one with my phone?" "ooh, get one with my phone, too, please!" "do you think the lighting is better over here?" "can you take a few more, I don't l...
that slide alder picture sort of reminds me of Bev Doolittle ;-)
wow! great pictures and it looks like you guys scored an amazing day up there. i'm envious :)
author=danpeck link=topic=30203.msg126526#msg126526 date=1388970051]
Once again… thanks for the diligent reporting. Can't wait for a good base out there!
I'll second that!
We have been spending our "mountain" time on the single track trails out your way Doug. Not quite the same as pow turns, but enjoyable none the less!
Gary
author=gregL link=topic=30231.msg126544#msg126544 date=1389024673]
Snakedance was full-on adventure skiing, especially the lower section.
Haw! Affirmative to that! It was good skiing, but I don't have all the twists and turns of the Snake memorized. Ended up ALMOST cliffing out skiers' right near old poma slope, just a few minutes of day light left, and had to commit to semicontrolled slide off a little 8-footer.
Sn...
Nash WAS pretty tracked out - looked like a midweek day when the lifts are running, but skied OK. Fresh tracks still available in Knoll 1/Widowmaker area for those that were interested. Snakedance was full-on adventure skiing, especially the lower section.
Thanks for the photos, both of the mountain and of your tracks! Amazing to be able to drive to the trail head in January.
Wow, nice job taking advantage of the unusual lack of snow to drive out to that TH!! And also of having the good judgment to "ski here now."
Great pictures, beautiful day out there. I was in the party behind you two. We did Union and then Jove, hitting the top about 20 mins after you skied off. Definitely liked the left line as the safer option, and from what we saw skinning up the sunnier ridge it was probably better snow too. Awesome conditions up top, and even the tight stuff coming down to the road was pretty fun.
Btw - was up there nearby but at lower elev today and there was alot of hoar from the last couple cold nig...
Btw - was up there nearby but at lower elev today and there was alot of hoar from the last couple cold nig...
Thanks for doing the TR Kenji. That last picture is classic!
David
David