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Another nice one Scott and Brian!

4/5/13 5:33am

alecapone

Holden, Hart lake , march 29- april 3

Looks like an awesome day! Way to take advantage..

Love the summit shot!

and the pic of the truck...

4/5/13 5:31am

Rowan Stewart

This is an inspiring and very eloquent tr - beautiful lines and great conditions. I have been to holden a few times, but mostly for summer hiking, and climbing. I hope sometime soon i will return to do some shredding there. Nice work getting those remote and seldom ridden lines, looks like a great trip.

4/5/13 5:28am

Hawthorne

No judgements here, but...

U might want to take down those pics of your mug w/ the 4runner/ license place parked next to the sign and outhouse...

4/5/13 4:48am

powhound

April 3, 2013, Pacific West Ski Area (aka Hyak)

Nice work guys! Looked like a full on party up there!

4/4/13 11:22pm

melchap

It was definitely a beautiful spring day!

Nice to meet you Silas.

4/4/13 10:34pm

n16ht5

Nice meeting you guys.

We got up to headlights at 5, left the truck at 6:20
breaking above the clouds

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4/4/13 8:57pm

ajjenkin

Nice work. There is a lot more snow all over that face than in November of 2011 (as there should be) - the line you ascended was our ski objective then, but it was a sheet of ice with a lot of hang-fire slab bits perched high on it. Isn't that an awesome place...thanks for bringing the memories rushing back!

4/4/13 5:46pm

Mtraslin

Cool!

Thanks for the update.

4/4/13 3:33pm

silaswild

Nice job Team TLT5P (+1 splitboarder.)

4/4/13 1:26pm

Good2Go

Good line, great style! Thanks for sharing.

4/4/13 12:51pm

LukerBee

It was an awesome day up there. We were the group of 3 with 2 of us on splitboards - started up about 1.5 hours behind you guys. Like that last photo with all 3 at the same time. Fletcher got some pretty good photos of the day you might want to check out on nwhikers.

4/4/13 12:10pm

Kyle Miller

Such a rad area in the Cascades.

Awesome work getting that line in primo conditions.

There was POW out there.

4/4/13 11:26am

Kyle Miller

Mar 31: Rainier summit to bridge via Fuhrer Thumb

Well........I wouldn't call it friendly but with some extra work it could be epic.

It was whiteout conditions on Friday so all I wanted to do was get out. Made it from Blackcomb to the summit of Whistler 8:15.

Crazy Nordic skiers were the talk of the town.

4/4/13 11:24am

Kyle Miller

Sounds like you guys got primo conditions on such an amazing line.

Strong work and great write up Ben.

Wish I could have joined you guys.

4/4/13 11:18am

Jim Oker

April 3, 2013, CircumnavEarlicious

Nice job getting that chute at the right moment of the day! In the right conditions it's such a fun line.

I still remember my best run there, while you and Wolfs were working your way over from a few other runs across Bean Basin, though on that particular day our second run was still pretty nice despite deeper meltage...

4/4/13 9:51am

snoholic

April 1, 2013, Lennox Mountain

Fun mountain! We were curious to find out who left the tracks on the Miller side, mystery solved. We found the climber left and up the avi chute to be a straightforward route (in safe conditions). From the bench we hit above goat basin there were a few shenanigans to gain access to upper mountain. We then cruised up the Western peak (The one you see from Hwy2, I think?) Next, we made a few turns and a traverse and a short climb to gain the ridge to the true summit. About a 6hr trip from car to...

4/4/13 8:39am

Charlie Hagedorn

author=Kyle Miller link=topic=28150.msg118444#msg118444 date=1365117635]
Nice work!!

Did you happen to see a solo splitboarder :)

We did! Dude was moving - said he'd accidentally woken up at 10 am. When he caught us on the Platform, he was on track to do it in a day. Never saw him board though; he did a lot of downhilling with the board split and skins on.

It doesn't seem like the splitboard-friend...

4/4/13 8:29am

Kyle Miller

April 1, 2013, Mt St Helens Circumnavigation

Nice work!!

Did you happen to see a solo splitboarder :)

4/4/13 8:20am

snoholic

Cool trip, that has been high on my list of to-do's for a while. Thanks for the info.

4/4/13 8:15am

christoph benells

Mar 31: Rainier summit to bridge via Fuhrer Thumb

saign that was an awesome video

congrats you guys, that looked like the run of a lifetime!

4/4/13 5:45am

Robie

Mar 31: Rainier summit to bridge via Fuhrer Thumb

you betcha that's gold !

4/4/13 2:16am

frankcd22

nice work! We hit the top a little bit later via the Success Glacier Couloir. Hope you had a rad ride down. let's go shred soon.

4/4/13 2:10am

cprahl

4/03/13 - Shuksan; White Salmon - Upper Sulphide

A snapshot of Nature's slurpy machine.

4/4/13 12:50am

Robie

April 3, 2013, Mt. Rainier Nisqually Chute

Most likely that was us.we were down to the bridge by 2 .We stopped for lunch by the flats at the moraine. There was a party of two ahead of us.

4/3/13 10:13pm

r1de

April 3, 2013, Mt. Rainier Nisqually Chute

You must be the party of 4 (or so) we saw making the approach to the chute while we were still skinning up. Nicely done.

4/3/13 1:38pm

Oyvind_Henningsen

April 3, East Basin of Chair Peak Dawn Patrol

yep,that would be early

4/3/13 1:31pm

Chuck C

April 3, 2013, Pacific West Ski Area (aka Hyak)

Simple answer. I left just before 3pm. I didn't want to miss my date with pulled pork.

4/3/13 1:09pm

silaswild

April 3, 2013, Pacific West Ski Area (aka Hyak)

Hmm, wonder how I missed you? TNT and I skinned up 330-415PM behind a gal with her two year old in a backpack and in front of a dad and daughter. Nice creamy snow, only slightly sticky.

4/3/13 12:17pm

Lisa

Muir-Bridge 3/31/13

That would be Grant and David, they are heading to ski Denali next month.
Grant is hard to keep up with on the descent even when riding switch which he does a lot of.

Baker last summer:

4/3/13 6:40am

Good2Go

April 1, 2013, Mt St Helens Circumnavigation

You're correct. Despite it's historic reputation as "extreme", Ulrichs is just a really great ski run with little objective hazard under most conditions. There is one spot you have to leave the couloir. About half way down there's a waterfall/cliff, which I think is where the rappel station is in the summer. It's right below the main "elbow". You can traverse to any of the slots to skier's right to avoid the cliff, without having to skin up or hi...

4/3/13 5:51am

dirtnerd

Great job guys
Glad to see everything worked out so well

4/3/13 5:02am

JPH

Nice video!

Quick question: The route seems like pretty straightforward fall line skiing. Is there anywhere along the route that you have to zig instead of zag to avoid cliffing out?

4/3/13 4:27am

JPH

Nice! I can't wait until I get to do the same with my girl.

West is another great spot to take kids for canned ski/mountain photo shoots. This one is from last spring. Never could get her to stop playing with her feet long enough to actually look at the camera...

4/3/13 1:40am

Ahitch

Nice TR. What a great day to be in the mountains. I took my 7 month old on his first tour that day as well. Same spot, same awesome experience. Skiing with your kids is the best.

4/3/13 1:17am

Good2Go

Yeah, we skied it a little late. Earlier would have been a bit better, all around.

4/3/13 12:59am

Zap

Wonderful. :) :) :)

4/3/13 12:42am

Marcus

Best TR of the year -- gush on!

4/2/13 11:20pm

cumulus

+ + !

4/2/13 10:27pm

cumulus

April 1, 2013, Lennox Mountain

nice slide show Charlie!

glad to see Franklin found good trip and company

4/2/13 10:25pm

Animal

Nice TR. Four of us just did this ski two weekends ago, but from the south and had excellent power conditions. It is nice to see your trip report The mostly melted tracks in your photos at the top are probably our are ski tracks. I have attached a few photos from our trip a few weeks ago to share.

Thansk!

Animal

4/2/13 3:41pm

Kenji

April 1, 2013, Lennox Mountain

Hi Troy,

Glad you are back safe and had a great time up there. I guess crossing the creek can be difficult, we've crossed earlier in a wider section where it was shallower, but then the other side was brushier. It's a great option to camp up there and explore the upper neighborhood. Thanks for "skipacking" inspiration!

4/2/13 3:21pm

avajane

March 24, 2013, Rainier, Muir to Bridge Powder WOW

I often ski by myself and have to tell my on going story of "the best powder day ever!" to my often disbelieving wife and kids. Thank you for sharing what looked like an Epic run. I can feel it strongly in the pictures - and wish I was there. Glad you had the light and the camera and skills to document it so well.

4/2/13 3:14pm

wolfs

So based on the light in the vid it looked like you did the descent at around 5PM or so? Did that work out as far as the snow and the sun angle that slope gets, or did you think it could've been better snow (less cooked) if you had been there a few hours earlier?

4/2/13 2:53pm

Lowell_Skoog

Right on! :)

4/2/13 2:13pm

Dicey

Excellent!!

4/2/13 1:53pm

JibberD

March 31, 2013, Mt. St Helens, easter corn

Gush on brother. This is great stuff and what it's all about!

4/2/13 1:46pm

JibberD

author=jhamaker link=topic=28139.msg118364#msg118364 date=1364955868]
See, the problem w/ planning trips w/ just guys is that *Easter did not even cross our minds*. So, no Easter egg hunt in the snow, no chocolate bunnies, no Easter bonnets not even a snow-bunny to commemorate the occasion. Sad, just sad :(

Agreed, skied on Easter too and didn't think twice about it until mentioning the tour to a couple of folks who were so...

4/2/13 1:34pm

Charlie Hagedorn