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We finished the birthday ribs at my house yesterday! Great ribs!

Andrew Carey

Nice meeting all you folks? LOL I usually ski solo in solitude! This time I brought my wife because I expected lots of people. Here is a poorly directed video of the somnolent skiing on the Paradise Glacier Saturday amongst the maddening hoardes.

Dreamy skiing in Paradise

credits to those geezers appearing in the video besides me (65 yr) and Regine (69 yr) according to Silas Wild (64 yr): "1:42 to 1:54 in...

7/22/12 11:44pm

jds

Saturday was our first trip to the Paradise Glacier. Shortly after we headed up we had the pleasure of meeting Andrew Carey and Regine on their return, and farther along met Silas and Friends. Thanks to them and various others for advice about the route. At 7600 ft (±) we turned around and enjoyed smooth skiing most of the way back.
Judith + David

7/22/12 3:54pm

PowderT

Hey Silas. This is Travis of "kick turns" (Kyle and Travis). Good to run into to you up there. We skinned up to the Cowlitz rocks after we saw you going back for your third run. Pretty cool views from that perspective, and it was fun to watch people ski down throught my binos. Also, I was the guy that asked Andy if his legs were burning after 78 consectutive turns. Funny stuff... here is a couple pics. The last one is of Andy and Regine

7/22/12 2:57pm

wolfs

author=Lowell_Skoog link=topic=25406.msg107408#msg107408 date=1342992067]
"I know the D is the biggest. I based my whole life on knowing that the D is the biggest!"

Heh.
My conceptualization of cups is imagining how much water the thing could hold at deepest if it was horizontal. But your proposed model would surely lead to more lively onslope debates and comparisons ...

mtneer ordinaire : hi to you to, should&...

7/22/12 2:55pm

mtneer ordinaire

Mt. Daniel, July 22, 2012

Nice meeting you (I think) yesterday afternoon. Our group of four (1 hiker and 3 skiers) were descending just as you were nearing the summit. Fantastic day on a modest peak with eye-popping views!

7/22/12 2:17pm

RyanPete81

We had a similar experience with the potholes and the creek crossing a few weeks ago.

There's a subaru in there:

7/22/12 12:10pm

gwatson

July 16-17, 2012, Silver Peak, 2 min walk to snow!

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.

7/22/12 11:09am

Lowell_Skoog

Thanks for the report. Makes me want to ski Ruth Mountain some time. I've never been up there.

author=wolfs link=topic=25406.msg107397#msg107397 date=1342942149]
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...

7/22/12 6:21am

Oyvind_Henningsen

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SILAS !

7/22/12 6:20am

Don_B

Wolfs,
Love seeing your evening shots of the places you go. and the generous descriptions.

7/22/12 5:54am

Zap

July 21 Rainier, Camp Muir (Look if u go tom)

Really enjoyed the TR and photos. ;)

7/22/12 5:27am

gregL

Hope you blue bagged it.

7/22/12 4:01am

FreeBird

July 21 Rainier, Camp Muir (Look if u go tom)

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

7/22/12 3:22am

skykilo

Congrats on escaping Lone Star status.

7/22/12 1:17am

Don_B

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

7/21/12 12:19pm

jtack

July 16-17, 2012, Silver Peak, 2 min walk to snow!

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.

7/21/12 12:12pm

silaswild

Awesome Tim. If anyone can find summer lines at Silver, you are that man. Thanks for sharing your local knowledge and enthusiasm.

7/21/12 12:08pm

RandoneeRon

Happy birthday Silas!

7/21/12 11:25am

Andrew Carey

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...

7/21/12 10:19am

Andrew Carey

6/17 Upper Esmeralda Basin

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 :-)

7/21/12 7:58am

GuloGulo

Re: Esmerelda Wolverine Camera Stolen 7/12/12
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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...

7/21/12 6:41am

Lowell_Skoog

author=silaswild link=topic=25398.msg107359#msg107359 date=1342813542]

You should send this picture to the local Dynafit rep, whoever that may be. Ka-ching!

7/20/12 1:05pm

gregL

Happy Birthday, wish my feet had been there to jump in the picture!

7/20/12 11:24am

tsuyoshi

Mt. Baker, Coleman Headwall

happy birthday silas!!!!

7/20/12 11:16am

mtngeek

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...

7/20/12 10:08am

Mofro

Happy Birthday Silas!

7/20/12 9:16am

Shred

July 14/15, 2012, Middle Sister, SE Ridge

Great Time, and natures firework show was the icing on the Birthday Cake!

7/20/12 9:03am

mikerolfs

nice first report. Pretty area. I've never been there, but your photos make me want to visit.

7/20/12 8:18am

rlsg

July 14/15, 2012, Middle Sister, SE Ridge

Thanks for the report--looks like a good time. Could you ski from the actual summit?

7/20/12 8:15am

all mtn

July 18, Hood, Zig Zag

- I recently saw a guy your Dad's age, hiking the Mt Lassen trail (on his birthday).

7/20/12 5:36am

snoholic

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.

7/20/12 5:19am

Andrew Carey

A whole bunch of people skied today Exciting video

7/19/12 1:19pm

mtneer ordinaire

We lunched on some of the rocks above the Nisqually

I've been that hungry. ;D

7/19/12 12:48pm

Robie

July 17, 2012, Squak Glacier

seems like good coverage still!
Thanks Andy

7/19/12 12:28pm

wickstad

Squock looks pretty good to me! Did someone defy gravity?

7/19/12 12:02pm

ron j

Good indication of the coverage.
Thanks Andy.

7/19/12 11:24am

Andrew Carey

An update on the Paradise Glacier from this morning: Boring Video

7/19/12 11:11am

ron j