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Great photos. Is there a chance for a map with your route marked?
PLENTY of snow up there. It was pretty mushy from the top of International last night, but skied well.
Thanks for the report! Still top to bottom coverage?
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Spectacular!....and way to slip through the weather window!
Lisa thanks for your comments.
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I must clarify that my ski off the summit was in the first week of June 1998 or 1997, I can't remember, but not '08. It was the first year Dee began working at Schurman so that would clarify which year. I skied it with David Gottlieb and the late Joe Puryear
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Is Emily now a Dynafit athlete? Looks like she is modeling 2014 prototype TLT 6 without the tongue! :D
Lisa, wonderful comment!
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The mountain may very well have been skied off the summit by a woman before myself. I don't know but would not be surprised. Maybe Lowell has some data.
Dee Molenaar's latest edition of The Challenge of Rainier has information about the first ski descent of the mountain by a woman. She was Erline Reber of Yakima, who skied from the summit on August...
I must clarify that my ski off the summit was in the first week of June 1998 or 1997, I can't remember, but not '08. It was the first year Dee began working at Schurman so that would clarify which year. I skied it with David Gottlieb and the late Joe Puryear
It was not done in a day. I left White river by myself with no tent hoping to reach the Schurman hut and ski with the guys. A rain storm mov...
It was not done in a day. I left White river by myself with no tent hoping to reach the Schurman hut and ski with the guys. A rain storm mov...
Looks like I've got some exploring to do. I keep forgetting WA has more than one mountain range! The pictures make the skiing look good up there!
Yeah, I can ski that, but only if I knew I had more than one life to spare. Maybe in my next life. It's one thing to be able ski the steep and exposed terrain, but it adds a whole new element when you've got hours of climbing behind you and got to have enough energy reserves to ski the terrain without incident. Great work!
Nice post Jessie.
Probably obvious to many who have spent time skiing out here, but there is really no question of whether it was done in a day before by a woman. I don't really want to get into some kind of contest about who did what first, and I'm not sure that many of the women I know would appreciate being pulled into a petty argument. Without doing any actual research, off the top of my head, the first to have done this (that I know of) wa...
I was up there on Saturday, under partly sunny skies, and the smooth, untracked snow under chair 2 was deceiving. I felt like I was skiing on glue on the upper part of the mountain. Once I got down to the lower mountain the skiing was much better. Glad to hear it was less mushy.
I planned on doing the same route on 5/25. The 30 mph steady winds led to a quick change in direction at silcox hut. Plenty of sun on lower slopes but above silcox was in cloud bank. I got some nice but shallow untracked powder going back down. Too much sun effect on the powder so not worth the second lap on a slope that is not very exciting. I did appreciate powder turns at the end of May.
Glad you rolled the dice with us on the weather, Lowell. A fine outing regardless of lack of sleep on 1st night due to strong E wind. Skoog's Cavern (snow cave) provided relative quiet on 2nd night. True ski bliss-glisse.
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Did they skip glacier peak?
Yes. Below is a link to a post Sting did last week w/ a video clip of Chris' final Volcano words.
http://thesnowtroopers.com/2012/ring-of-fire-tour-bye-thanks-chris-davenport-jess-mcmillan/
However, I did overhear Jess mention they were thinking about dropping
Davenport at the TH on the way ba...
Turn off is just south of Camp creek, as for heading for the "Deroux-Big Boulder" trailhead -- but bear left and cross Camp creek instead of bearing right.
Emily's Jeep managed the water bars, but I don't think my CRV would have gotten above 3600ft on that old mining road.
GPS track: http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/97287835/
Emily's Jeep managed the water bars, but I don't think my CRV would have gotten above 3600ft on that old mining road.
GPS track: http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/97287835/
Which road is this? Camp Creek? Boulder Creek? The road to Jolly Mtn TH?
Nicely done... I figure you'd get a lot of flex out of the heel on those.
- weather forecasting, stream crossings & traffic mgmt., that's dedication. she looks pretty dressed up; next to the skis w/ the (funny lookin' binders, just kidding).
sounds like a great trip Lowell, John and Crispin !
Did they skip glacier peak?
Agree, excellent TR and pics. Way to go fellas.
Love that feeling of covering vast mileage "for free"--skiing plain rocks.
Love that feeling of covering vast mileage "for free"--skiing plain rocks.
beautiful. thanks for rekindling the memories. i trust the tarn on the ridge S of snowfield is still snow :)
Looks like a great trip! I love those high traverses.
Amazing and inspiring yet again - thanks Lowell.
awesome TR. Have wanted to ski this one for a while now. Thanks for the motivation!
Very nice. I'm glad to see you found the sun. I was on Ellinor teaching some young men some mountaineering skills yesterday and we had light rain down low and large flakes of snow on the mountain. The skiing was actually quite fun. I'm glad the clouds sheltered the already warm snow from the sun. It sounds like the Tatoosh range was a smart choice.
Nice Peter,
We are so lucky to have so many fun things to do so close to where we live. :D
Gary
We are so lucky to have so many fun things to do so close to where we live. :D
Gary
Glad to see you are still getting out! Thought you might have hung up your skis after the garden started to grow..... ;)
Gary
Gary
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Sounds like the name of a law firm!
Agreed,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, one of the ambulance chasing variety ;)
Gary
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.. We summited Plummer again for more verrtical. Skiing Plummer's Helper I got knocked down by a big pinwheel I couldn't quite stay ahead of.
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TATOOSH IN MAY
Drive skin boot
Summit turn boot
Turn cornice chute
Gawk graupel hoot
Sweat summit mush
Chute slide push
Traverse drive night
Skied just right
Peter,
Thanks for the trip and a well-worded report. Adding a pic of Silver Peak from distance for those interested in snow condition, and an action shot.
Thanks for the trip and a well-worded report. Adding a pic of Silver Peak from distance for those interested in snow condition, and an action shot.
Skied Zig Zag on 5-27-12 and found very smooth conditions. Unfortunately the weather blew in on our descent and we were forced to ski 25-50 turns and wait for the next sucker hole to open up. Not the 3800 feet of wide open arcing turns I imaged on the ascent, but all in all a good way to spend a Sunday.
Looks like you're having some fun Tony. Let's finally ski together when you get back.
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Weren't those incredible thunderheads building over Olympus etc. Thanks for the skin track.
Couldn't make out the tunes on your MP3 player :)
Here is the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQqD4NMRJPA
Scott, no protractor needed for this trip. I was a little shocked and disappointed Jake didn't use the protractor to check the slope angle of Eric and Dan's Black Peak descent. That would have been good information to confirm.
It's a great winter tour too. I was able to start skinning at the last flat area before the snow slope leading to the crest.