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This is the kind of conversation I thrive for! Nice! I'm a believer on the glacier hypothesis. I think I must have been a glacier in a previous life ;D

6/28/13 1:47am

Kyle Miller

June 23, 2013, Bedal Peak

I am a huge geography nerd and love the photos of the old glacial scars. Awesome to think that the enchantments used to be a huge Glacial Ice cap.

When Jason and I were traversing through the Agnes valley it was awesome to see the western mountains had huge rock faces on there SE slopes, no doubt from an ancient glacier.

Ale as I have said many times you continue to inspire so many people including myself. Keep on keeping on!

6/27/13 12:23pm

cmosetick

Awesome that you guys made it up Bedal! Way cool! I have not read any reports for Bedal since our venture there in March 2009. Yes the route is pretty rough, but the view of Glacier from up high is totally worth it if she's out. Great effort!

6/27/13 4:21am

Kyle Miller

WOW!! Thank you so much for all the kind comments they are truly appreciated.

As with Ryan I am proud to be a Cascadian as our small mountain community has some of the nicest, most approachable people I have ever met.

At this moment we are working out some kinks to get a slideshow of the adventure together as well as a few other potential formats. This was an amazing experience and I am still wrapping my head around it as I watch the rain fall over the city skies.

6/27/13 4:21am

alecapone

June 22, Trip to Westfalia in the Shuksan Camper

Great report. My favorite mountain in the cascades.

Thanks for the tip of the hat, by far the most memorable trip i've ever had. But rad to see Sol and Ryan doing their thing. Now that looks like the hard way! Any way up or down anything in that area is spectacular.

Neat observation on the glacial retreat too. I've wondered about that, but never connected the dots.

Funny. Past couple seasons i've taken to using the verb j-tack, "j-tacking&quo...

6/27/13 4:16am

radka

The Tapatio traverse and the conquest on Mount Chimichanga? Kenji, you will have to explain that, I wouldn't even know where to start ;)

6/27/13 2:55am

Kenji

June 22, Trip to Westfalia in the Shuksan Camper

Thanks Radka, a perfect ending to our fun trip ;-) But no mention of the Mexican Alps we were aiming for??

Skiing was pretty good (sorry for weird color, the tracks were very faint):

6/27/13 12:12am

peteyboy

Great day with the usual Bellingham Lovefest on the summit plateau.

6/26/13 2:46pm

peteyboy

Way to get after it in the summer, fellas. Mike, at the risk of yet another trip ambition turning me into a modern day ski Sisyphus, I still am inspired for the mythical, magical winter day when the trip is skiable across the lake and safe goodness from the top back to the lake.

6/26/13 12:57pm

Lowell_Skoog

author=mikerolfs link=topic=28873.msg121595#msg121595 date=1372227587]
Here are three more photos that might suggest the glacier explanation:

I find those photos convincing for the glacier hypothesis.

It's like an alpine bathtub ring.

It would be fun to kick back and stare at the crags and try to imagine the Snow Creek Glacier as it once was.

6/26/13 12:51pm

glenn_b

I'd guess these are the trim lines from the most recent glaciation aka the Little Ice Age. Maybe some geologist type could weigh in. Makes you wonder what the skiing would have been like in 1850 or so.

6/26/13 2:24am

mikerolfs

What an interesting observation. We commented on not wanting to spend much time under the clean rock faces, but maybe they don't indicate recent rock fall after all. Here are three more photos that might suggest the glacier explanation:

6/25/13 10:40pm

Splitboard Graham

thanks for paving the way, kyle.

6/25/13 3:19pm

Lowell_Skoog

June 22-23, 2013, Mt. Adams, Pikers Peak

Nice report.

When I look at this picture of Witches Tower, I wonder what the lichen on the tower signifies.

Does the sharp transition from almost-no-lichen (below) to lots-of-lichen (above) indicate a massive amount of rock fall? Or does it mark the line of a not-so-long-extinct glacier? To my eye, the latter seems more likely.

Either alterna...

6/25/13 2:18pm

PS44

June 22, 2013, Vesper

John,
nice effort - good you seized the opportunity!

6/25/13 1:45pm

Erik Henne

Additional benefit was we had the entire mountain to ourselves, minus a few parties sleeping in their tents. The best nighttime corn I have ever skied.

6/25/13 12:09pm

GregSimon

June 23, 2013, Bedal Peak

We all see that 3rd picture and say "I've done that." It's like that Pemco "skis in the rain guy" ad. But this is "walks uphill to ski in the rain guy".

6/25/13 6:37am

Charlie Hagedorn

June 22-23, 2013, Mt. Adams, Pikers Peak

Awesome.

6/25/13 6:31am

jesski

Strong work, you two.

6/25/13 6:15am

jesski

June 22-23, 2013, Mt. Adams, Pikers Peak

author=CascadeClimber link=topic=28876.msg121500#msg121500 date=1372027564]
My poles made it into your summit shot, I think.

..and the top of one of my ski bases! Haha!

6/25/13 6:13am

jesski

Bet the timing made for a really nice alternative to the regular "summit at 1 pm" schtick. Sometimes skiing in the dark is really fun!

6/25/13 6:09am

ryanl

June 23, 2013, Bedal Peak

heck of a trip you two! Makes me proud to be a Cascadian....

6/25/13 6:05am

dkoelle

Love the 3rd picture. PNW.

6/25/13 5:56am

flowing alpy

6/22/13, Interglacier/Steamboat Prow and UFO Landing

author=Big Steve link=topic=28866.msg121535#msg121535 date=1372093807]
Fun times Friday night. We went back on Saturday. The route up the PCT and up the rib between streams was way nicer (and somewhat shorter) than the road, and we got an extra est. 250' of skiing on the descent.

i will test this route tomorrow after nopostholio investigates today, thanks steve.
bobby

6/25/13 4:40am

jtmaier

Shreddar, I think we chatted for a while at the prow. And I think I see my party of two stopped for a water/sunblock break in the second picture! I was wondering what that chopper was up to. Kyle and I found a slightly less dubious connection to glacier basin. One of a handful of dirt/grass skinning moments before the basin. It was our first trip to this side of the mountain as well, and it turned into an awesome day for a ski!

6/25/13 2:43am

radka

June 22, 2013, Mt Hood, Old Chute

That's our friend Linsey there! Good that you were able to team up with her.

She said she found a Black Diamond shovel on Fryingpan Glacier around 7000/8000 ft. If it's yours, message me and I will connect you with Linsey. She doesn't have a TAY account so I am posting on her behalf.

6/24/13 1:50pm

Don_B

I thought you were fast in trail running shoes, but this is really pushing it on rubber tires and skis, Andy! Nice day!

6/24/13 12:41pm

vaultguru6

June 22, 2013, Snoqualmie pass

Looks like some Rampart Lakes/Ridge terrain accessed via the Laura Backdoor. Sound about right?

6/24/13 12:31pm

PetraSkis

June 22, 2013, Mt. Adams, SW Chutes

It was indeed a great day to ski the SW chutes of Mount Adams. Excellent conditions. it was my first time on Adams and I can say that I've never skied something quite like the SW chutes. Phenomenal!

We dropped a little too low and had to track back up to make the lip you describe in your TR. I think we might have found and followed your skin track there. Thanks! :)

6/24/13 10:51am

shreddar

6/22/13, Interglacier/Steamboat Prow and UFO Landing

Great pictures! I was up there on Saturday also, but did not see your party (or the UFO). What time where you at the Prow? I was up there from about 1:30-2:00.

6/24/13 9:58am

Griff

Very nice, looks like it was a beautiful evening. Can't imagine there were too many people up skiing a mountain across the ol' US of A that night, how cool is that.

6/24/13 9:04am

Mike M

Great TR! Spot on with the description of the view, I’m still shell shocked from it. Truly amazing and indescribable .

6/24/13 6:31am

Chuck C

Yes it was. You looked like you'd earned it.

6/24/13 5:06am

jtack

June 22, 2013, Snoqualmie pass

John/Scott, as Mike noted, we eyed your line all the way to the top of the pass, all the more impressive in real life. A great ski, for me, thanks to the consummate fun hog (Mike) I was lured down Aasguard, and there was a spot or two that made me pucker just a little, but as is always the case so exciting to have done it, not to mention the added bonus, of stepping of on the trail at the lake! A few shots of the Fun hog in his element!

6/24/13 4:43am

JimD

Thanks for a great day of new views and slopes Tim!
Tim drops in

Eric heads east

Chimney Rock

Where's the snow?

Da crew

6/24/13 4:18am

Griff

Just amazing pictures, thank you!!

6/24/13 3:47am

cchapin

Great TR Amar! I had a strong feeling you would be doing Little T soon after reading our TR.

I believe the solo women you met up there was Linsey!

6/24/13 3:29am

Robie

The low route also has by far the least crevasse hazard of any of the 3 approach routes to Little T. For climbers on foot, though, the low route makes little sense since it is longer and involves a descent of 900 ft on the way in and the same climb on the way back. But it is a wonderful ski route, actually it feels like a very scenic ski tour near Paradise which fortuitously (and perhaps a bit circuitously) delivers the skier all the way up to the highest snows of...

6/24/13 3:22am

Big Steve

Fun times Friday night. We went back on Saturday. The route up the PCT and up the rib between streams was way nicer (and somewhat shorter) than the road, and we got an extra est. 250' of skiing on the descent.

6/24/13 2:30am

drescj

June 22, 2013, Mt Hood, Old Chute

Chuck, was it you that gave me and my buddy an Alaskan Summer Ale at about 7:45 as we trudged by your car? If so, it was greatly appreciated.

Great day to be out skiing!

6/24/13 2:10am

Zap

WOW, you had a long/fast day ! ;)

6/24/13 1:59am

Zap

6/22/13, Interglacier/Steamboat Prow and UFO Landing

Great TR and the photos were well done. Toilet worker delivery video. ! ;)

6/24/13 1:32am

flowing alpy

one more mission this week then it is volcano season for a day.
b

6/24/13 1:23am

Amar Andalkar

June 22, 2013, Mt. Adams, SW Chutes

Which way to Little Tahoma? Some thoughts on approach routes:

The low route from Paradise to Little T described above appears in no published source as far as I know. The several published Rainier and Cascades climbing guidebooks which include Little Tahoma (Beckey, Van Steen, Gauthier, Smoot) list only the the most popular route from Fryingpan Creek (via Summerland and Fryingpan Glacier to the Whitman) and also the high route from Paradise (or from Camp Muir) which crosses the heavil...

6/24/13 12:47am

Zap

Great TR. ;)

6/24/13 12:17am

MtnPavlas

I'm sorry I missed the Solstice night party, but even the next day it sure was still lively up there. Silver Peak simply refuses to give up the "most popular place" title this year.

Good running into a few new folks (Ben and Scott - thanks for the picture... looks like yours came out quite nicely, too ;-)

It was a glorious day - ran into a few non-skiers... looks like everyone wanted to take advantage of the short sunny window.

It sure was baking u...

6/23/13 3:14pm

mikerolfs

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Thanks for posting Mike.

John I hope you noticed the title to this trip report is a tip of the hat to you and Scott. We talked about your triple couloir ski on our walk up - and shuddered :)

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Nice but still needing a pic of Jamie packing skis on...

6/23/13 2:42pm

jwplotz

Lots of locals in action! Thanks for posting Mike. And way to explore the choss Sol and Ryan. I've always wondered about Witches Tower. I never would have guessed it was 6 pitches!

6/23/13 1:40pm

glenn_b