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Awesome trip! The boot prints you found on the summit of Glacier peak belong to myself and a friend. We did the Dakobed traverse, starting at Tall Timbers ranch and ending in the White river valley (TR here: http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1101570)

That area is absolutely amazing, glad we weren't the only ones to hit GP given the amazing weather.

4/10/13 1:33pm

dberdinka

Extra gnar points for the complete lack of the ubiquitous Whippets. Amazing steeps there on the headwall and beyond.

4/10/13 1:12pm

stoudema

April 9, 2013, Cashmere Mountain NW Face

Damned impressive as usual Kyle! Thanks for sharing the stoke and enduring the suffer fest and documenting your adventure with the rest of us!

4/10/13 1:05pm

jwplotz

Cool report and photos but good God, walk the road next time, and don't do it a second time. Much preferable than calling Chelan Co. sheriff's to get rescued had you taken a spill in the creek.

4/10/13 1:00pm

tsuyoshi

April 9, 2013, Cashmere Mountain NW Face

author=alecapone link=topic=28241.msg118742#msg118742 date=1365649656]

Is that a skin track on the colchuck glacier?

no skin track on the glacier from what we could tell... we kept thinking we would see someone going up the glacier with such great weather

4/10/13 12:15pm

alecapone

April 9, 2013, Cashmere Mountain NW Face

I dunno. That log crossing looks to exciting to miss! I say you got the exit right.

Nice work getting the weather window and great snow!

Is that a skin track on the colchuck glacier?

4/10/13 12:07pm

Kyle Miller

Great work skiing two amazing lines Adam, Eben and Eduardo!

Talk about great conditions.

4/10/13 11:00am

Gregg_C

Adam, I rarely watch clips but I started watching yours and couldn't stop. That was really well done. The headwall clip was scary to watch and then you ended with some high speed GS turns on the Northwest. Excellent! Thanks for putting that together and sharing it.

4/10/13 10:48am

Rowan Stewart

were you the guys who got locked in the white salmon lot? anyway that was so sick. epic. I can't wait to ride the nwc, its at the top of my list...

4/10/13 9:23am

Chamois

Whew - that was steep, now were cruising - aggggg! that's steep and narrow, whew, past that, agggg! Repeat.

Awesome. My toes were curling at several junctions.

4/10/13 8:01am

christoph benells

dude im giving you 2 replies cause that was so sick!

4/10/13 6:03am

christoph benells

April 3, 2013, Indianhouse Chutes, AK

that was awesome man!

the sluff off of hanging glacier shot is so epic!!!

4/10/13 6:02am

jimmyjam

Nice TR, thanks for posting. I probably went by that chute hundreds of times as a kid learning to ski at Alyeska. Beautiful panorama shot of Turnagain Arm, brings back lots of memories.

4/10/13 4:15am

~Link~

March 30-31, 2013, ONP Hurricane Ridge-Deer Park

Wow, Kyle. Very impressive, as expected.

4/10/13 3:22am

Randito

April 8, Dawn Slot pow

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4/10/13 2:57am

ron j

March 17, 2013, Fumbelin

author=cchapin link=topic=27941.msg117584#msg117584 date=1363633343]
LOL!!! Hahahah, that's awesome, thanks for sharing.

This post would not have been possible without the guidance from 'ron j' :)

Out-Fubelin makes life more mellow . ;)
Nice work.

4/9/13 11:32pm

danpeck

Mack! One of these days I'll do that traverse. You know I've been wanting to do that.

I'm just back from a spring break trip to escalante, ut.

We need to tour in April!

4/9/13 2:24pm

Atraslin

March 31, 2013, Spider Mountain, North Face Chute

jwplotz, Next time I will have a rope, falling is not an option. Liam went for it.
Maybe he was thinking of the Shane Mckconkey quote. Don`t just stand there, ski
and jump off something.``

I actually excavated my entrance enough. to allow for the full ski length drop in.

4/9/13 1:20pm

Atraslin

Sick line! Looked at that on the S-Loop past July. Looks like you nailed it!

4/9/13 1:15pm

String

25 Mar 2013, Big Four north face climb/ski

author=Amar Andalkar link=topic=28177.msg118700#msg118700 date=1365562148">
On Cascade Climbers: Three Fingers - east face couloir 3/9/2013

Dan posts most of his TRs there now, usually in the *freshiezone* forum, including his version of this trip: Big Four - north face 3/25/2013

4/9/13 12:21pm

Amar Andalkar

25 Mar 2013, Big Four north face climb/ski

author=String link=topic=28177.msg118695#msg118695 date=1365556301">
In one of the pics in the link it says that dan skied the ramp on the Three Fingers. Any chance there is a trip report from that to look at? I went out to scope it in january and had a terrible experience when a snowbank collapsed on me and I dislocated my shoulder miles from the car in squire creek. Would love to see any pics from his adventure out there. Thanks!

4/9/13 11:49am

radski

March 2013, Trip Report- Republic of Georgia, Svane

Generally very safe, other group had a heli so they got security for that. Otherwise most everyone is hospitable, except for some drunkenness. Obviously pre-negotiate taxi rates and destinations and housing prices, but no one will try to gouge you too bad. Not sure what the deal with selling gear would be as I only donated stuff to the local kids, but given that there is only one ski shop in Tbilisi you might have some luck with beater ski gear, though not enough westerners skiing to sell anythi...

4/9/13 11:24am

String

25 Mar 2013, Big Four north face climb/ski

Awesome line!

In one of the pics in the link it says that dan skied the ramp on the Three Fingers. Any chance there is a trip report from that to look at? I went out to scope it in january and had a terrible experience when a snowbank collapsed on me and I dislocated my shoulder miles from the car in squire creek. Would love to see any pics from his adventure out there. Thanks!

4/9/13 10:11am

Eben

April 2, 2013, Chamonix, France, Capucin Traverse

sweet trip, way to make it happen! An access tip i learned from the legendary splitboarding doctor of Darrington is to take the defined ridge just south of fire creek up out of the whitechuck valley to meet the PCT west of fire creek pass. it's a relatively painless way into the N side of glacier though you still gotta deal with the put to bed road and trail washouts in the first mile.

4/9/13 8:59am

Scotsman

Nice.... What a season they are having in Chamonix, incredible conditions.
Can't wait to get back out there.

Great report....but the video is unwatchable....you should have edited rather than just sped it up as I couldn't watch the jerkiness.

Look forward to more reports.

4/9/13 4:25am

Jason4

Apr 7. Artist's Point et al

I popped about a foot deep crown in Oi on Sunday and watched a skier pop a very wide (~100 ft) but shallow sympathetic slide on the Elbow. There were definite signs of instability near the ski area.

Good to hear that you had fun and made it out safe.

4/9/13 2:44am

JoshK

April 3, 2013, Indianhouse Chutes, AK

Holden...I love that place! Big mountains, great riding, cool people, truly incredible scenery. It has it all.

Awesome trip, man, truly awesome!! I never would have thought to go check out out that Beowulf couloir. I was in the same area as you last year, doing a big traversing loop. The ski down from Dumbbell/Greenwood is so scenic, as is that whole Lyman Lakes area, Chiwawa, etc. We went out via Cloudy, and North Star and skied down that area in your picture after dropping back over...

4/8/13 7:13pm

alecapone

Nice day!

Love the sea level start.

Jealous.

4/8/13 12:35pm

alecapone

Yes Jake a while bag of tricks! I even used Kyle's jet boil trick to get my camp fire going.

Don't want to give the impression I am a hard guy or anything. My biggest camp crisis was letting my fire go completely out one night.

4/8/13 12:15pm

alecapone

Brutally Beautiful!!!

Way to keep it together and pull off another one!

4/8/13 12:05pm

alecapone

Thanks everyone! kind of flattered really.

Thanks for the writer position offer as well, but isn't that what we are all doing? putting the free in free-lance. Besides, you would need a staff editor, and fact checker. your old boots served me very well, a lot of miles, but I think they have had it. I promise you they will have a nice resting place.

And beowulf the dog...? I love it, Lowell.

It was solo, but not by design. I invited a few of you. Everyon...

4/8/13 12:01pm

kath

my third read .. and still it sucks me in .. and man o man i love all those pix .. love you kyle and keep it up!

4/8/13 8:48am

avajane

Hot Dam! So you take a cell phone photo of some obscure ice climb Bertulis put up; hop a boat to some weird little town I've never heard; skin up some deserted valley; sleep out by yourself and then solo and ride the ice climb? Then you do it over and over for the next several days until you run out of Whiskey? Who are you???? Very impressed.

4/8/13 7:44am

dirtnerd

Garibaldi Neve Mar29-31

pics:
1) corn harvest high on Garibaldi
2) The Sharkfin
3) Glaciology Huts, Garibaldi Lake, and the Black Tusk

4/8/13 6:10am

dirtnerd

Garibaldi Neve Mar29-31

more pics
1) sat morning
2) atwell peak and howe sound
3) booting just above the schrund

4/8/13 6:05am

jwplotz

March 2013, Trip Report- Republic of Georgia, Svane

Jesus. My feet hurt after reading this! Way to suffer for the goods!

4/8/13 4:41am

Micah

author=davidG link=topic=28219.msg118614#msg118614 date=1365442048">
I can't get the link to work..

http://theworldofbcor.blogspot.com

4/8/13 3:21am

davidG

March 2013, Trip Report- Republic of Georgia, Svane

Nice! What an adventure. Wish you had some pics, here - I can't get the link to work..

You mentioned some other visitors hired security to attend them.. what's the general feel of the area in that regard? Can you sell your used gear for a fair price on exit?

Geoland (I think the regional garmin rep) has a nice web presence, but couldn't figure out how to get their maps - maybe that was your point..

Too early for condos..? :)

4/8/13 2:27am

Edgesport

Riveting TR - solo glacier travel is bold.

4/8/13 2:19am

Mtraslin

I think he choked up his R hand to the middle of the ski pole.

4/8/13 12:11am

Oyvind_Henningsen

thank you for sharing Scott. Inspiring !

4/7/13 11:24pm

jwplotz

Nice one and cool video! In that fourth photo, it looks like your friend is dropping in with his pole for the left hand and I assume an axe in his right hand. Interesting and (must have been) tense drop in.

4/7/13 4:10pm

Mtraslin

April 1, 2013, Mt St Helens Circumnavigation

Good one. Andy Gump. And your crew.

Did your bud realize he was jumping into steep ice.

4/7/13 1:55pm

Edgesport

Outstanding prezi - thanks.

4/7/13 12:48pm

steveski

4/3/13 Mount Baker C/D

Great write-up and photos. Thanks!

4/7/13 11:22am

kath

scott .. this is the most engaging tr you've ever written up .. totally rad! plus all the ground you covered .. so badass .. a most excellent adventure .. just stay safe out there my friend

4/7/13 10:20am

jtack

Boy Scott, you have really had a HUGE winter, bagging big line after big line. Incredible determination to pull them off, nicely done!

4/7/13 8:50am

Jake the Brit

Another astonishing solo effort. You guys (you & Kyle) are an inspiration,
I'll just repeat: big cojones, a bag of tricks & a love of the Cascades. Lyrical travel, beautifully presented.

4/7/13 12:31am

Jake the Brit

What a wicked solo effort. Big balls & all the tricks of the trade.

4/7/13 12:25am

ski2fly