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Nice job getting to it on Silver. I drove up a few days ago to check it out and it looked toast from the road.
Silas: nice running into you on Rainier yesterday, It was a great ski from the anvil. We never found your cheesecake though.
Silas: nice running into you on Rainier yesterday, It was a great ski from the anvil. We never found your cheesecake though.
Thanks for the report. Makes me want to ski Ruth Mountain some time. I've never been up there.
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For the ski down - snow for top thousand feet was big grain corn, really no cups...
Next thousand cups about an inch but was soft enough that they barely mattered..
The nicest surprise was the last thousand at the bottom.... although there were maybe 2" cups...
Wolfs,
Love seeing your evening shots of the places you go. and the generous descriptions.
Love seeing your evening shots of the places you go. and the generous descriptions.
What a day! ;D
Thanks for the brisket Silas!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X2pXIPb9i4&feature=colike
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.502729733077637.132529.100000218445455&type=1&l=5be51338c7
Thanks for the brisket Silas!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X2pXIPb9i4&feature=colike
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.502729733077637.132529.100000218445455&type=1&l=5be51338c7
Congrats on escaping Lone Star status.
Happy birthday, Silas. Nice to meet you at the Paradise lot on Friday AM and see the preview
video. We stuck with our plan and slogged up the Muir route mostly in whiteout with our hiking friend Janet, for a special day for her. Specaily foggy and wet, too. I'll do a separate TR to avoid hijacking yours.
Don
video. We stuck with our plan and slogged up the Muir route mostly in whiteout with our hiking friend Janet, for a special day for her. Specaily foggy and wet, too. I'll do a separate TR to avoid hijacking yours.
Don
Happy birthday Silas! Sounds and looks like a fantastic way to celebrate a birthday. Let me count some of the good parts of that trip; good company, whiskey, food and turns, seems like that's a great start on another year! Best wishes.
Awesome Tim. If anyone can find summer lines at Silver, you are that man. Thanks for sharing your local knowledge and enthusiasm.
We wondered what that slow motion blur was as we passed by! BTW, Regine was on her new Dynafit outfit I bought her to start her 70th year in! Sorry we didn't recognize you, we thought it was a group of old people :-) We went only as high as you did today, just below the big crevasse. Regine complained that the snow was too slow and sticky and that I had not waxed her skis since the last time she skied! She likes fresh wax.
p.s., we passed 4 pairs of skiers and one group of 5...
p.s., we passed 4 pairs of skiers and one group of 5...
I went up to Paradise Glacier today and I could see all the Crown Royal tracks coming down the cliffs and across the crevasses! Maybe send it to Crown Royal rather than Dynafit :-)
Re: Esmerelda Wolverine Camera Stolen 7/12/12
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... It is entirely possible the camera theft was not associated with TAY.
You'll get no argument from me on that point, Aja.
In fact, I'd feel the same if the views of the post you mentioned were 5,000 views.
I don't recall seeing the post you mention.
I know the experience must be f...
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Quote from: GuloGulo on Yesterday at 05:47:08 PM
... It is entirely possible the camera theft was not associated with TAY.
You'll get no argument from me on that point, Aja.
In fact, I'd feel the same if the views of the post you mentioned were 5,000 views.
I don't recall seeing the post you mention.
I know the experience must be f...
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You should send this picture to the local Dynafit rep, whoever that may be. Ka-ching!
Happy Birthday, wish my feet had been there to jump in the picture!
Bendite- are you talking about the Coleman Demming route with the Roman wall? Yes that should be fine, and is often skiable all summer. We rope up a in a few places skinning on the way up, but not on the way down, skiing down roped up is very difficult to manage.
Andy-yeah it was a little sobering to hear that too, like I said a good experience but it was very easy to see how things could go south in the blink of an eye.
Ovind- pretty sure it is done for skiing, but the c...
Andy-yeah it was a little sobering to hear that too, like I said a good experience but it was very easy to see how things could go south in the blink of an eye.
Ovind- pretty sure it is done for skiing, but the c...
Great Time, and natures firework show was the icing on the Birthday Cake!
nice first report. Pretty area. I've never been there, but your photos make me want to visit.
Thanks for the report--looks like a good time. Could you ski from the actual summit?
- I recently saw a guy your Dad's age, hiking the Mt Lassen trail (on his birthday).
Anvil Rock never saw this coming. Great day until Thor's hammer made us (most of us) make a hasty retreat out of Stevens Canyon. We almost escaped the deluge in time.
A whole bunch of people skied today Exciting video
We lunched on some of the rocks above the Nisqually
I've been that hungry. ;D
seems like good coverage still!
Thanks Andy
Thanks Andy
Squock looks pretty good to me! Did someone defy gravity?
Good indication of the coverage.
Thanks Andy.
Thanks Andy.
An update on the Paradise Glacier from this morning: Boring Video
Out of curiosity what would your usual reliables be this time of year? I'm going for my first 12 months of consecutive snowboarding and it seems like the next couple months might get a little interesting.
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At 43 I am feeling my tolerance level for being scared seemingly lowered trip by trip.........
Oyvind - is it tolerance or adrenaline? I'd say if it's adrenaline, you get plenty of that doing the fine job that you do at EMR.
Nice! Zig Zag Glacier is strangely under-appreciated - at times there are loads of people crowding the narrow runs on Palmer, and you can ski a couple hundred feet over onto Zig Zag and feel like you're the only person on the mountain.
there was turns a little further from this spot a couple weeks ago.
sorry we missed you mark.
sorry we missed you mark.
The little bowl just west of Antler Peak still had a 600' clean run (except for a few loose stones on the surface here and there) on July 15, too foggy to photograph that day.
I'm planning on a presentation to Nordic club in Portland, possibly Mazamas. Invitation always helps
David
David
yaa, they think its funny to ski close/ spray someone, but they are clueless !
Wow! Surprised this isn't getting more press.
Yeah it looks like they did just for their own enjoyment. We might have to sue to get a presentation and all the facts
Happy you found the line through it, closing in on done for the season? Andy has a good point about the consequences we face many times on these steep lines. At 43 I am feeling my tolerance level for being scared seemingly lowered trip by trip.........
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Thanks for the report! How did the Sourdough Chutes look? Cups or corn? :)
I thought they were pretty good; yeah there's a little bit of cupping, but you're not getting bucked or chattered around.
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Cool post! I wish i had gone up there instead of Stevens. Did you need a 4x4 to get up there? Any glide avannche evidence, seems like prime glide avalanche terain. Way to get after the north idaho goodness!
http://www.fsavalanche.org/encyclopedia/glide.htm
Thanks Joe! Good job on Stevens, though. Always a good destination! No 4x4 needed to get up...
Cool post! I wish i had gone up there instead of Stevens. Did you need a 4x4 to get up there? Any glide avannche evidence, seems like prime glide avalanche terain. Way to get after the north idaho goodness!
http://www.fsavalanche.org/encyclopedia/glide.htm
http://www.fsavalanche.org/encyclopedia/glide.htm
I wonder if maybe we were really up at Sunrise last week because we searched for these infamous chutes and bowls around this area and had no luck.
Nice one, it looked pretty exposed and coverage seemed minimal. White knuckle fun is right. I gotta
admit after hearing about the accident up there, it really makes you think of the consequences.
admit after hearing about the accident up there, it really makes you think of the consequences.
For sure, bring a rope. The standard route is straight forward with plenty of climbers doing the route. But don't underestimate the size of the crevasses. We ski down un roped, but keep your eyes on the slots.
Wow! Surprised this isn't getting more press. Well done, very inspiring.