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Those blue shades are hot! Would match my wife's outfit well - I'll be on the lookout.
Beautiful country up there and great family destination too. Nice post!
Way to give 'er, Mike and friends! Glad you could include at least one bridge and creek descent.
Awesome guys! Looks like a fun trip.
3500' and below was boot top Schmoo Glue, but it sure beat walking down the summer trail.
This photo pretty much sums up the rest of the weekend...
This photo pretty much sums up the rest of the weekend...
Just curious, what type of binding?
Stoudema. Just looked at your photos again. My previous post was an injustice to you for not mentioning how stunning they were, as usual. Thanks for doing Marys justice. Still remember running into you and Todd that first time at the TH on Snowdome years ago. Keep it up.
10-4. I tend to be spur of the moment when I have a spouse/kid window -- seems like before dawn or after dark of late, but if I have a more defined window I'll shoot you a pm. Feel free to to send me one as well.
Buck.... anytime you "Never" feel like a partner for some Mary's "Unfounded" action, please send me a pm. Stoudema, that goes for you also.
I'm a Corvallis resident, married to a power scholar, and father of a two year old. The latter two realities have limited my opportunities into the Cascades the past few years. I would like to say I NEVER take advantage of Marys Peak (sounds funny stated that way), a coastal gym with fairly reliable snow that is merely 25 min from my house. There are NEVER days up there where one can ski 1000 ft. 45 degree lines through noble fir old growth. Don't believe anyone...
Nice work dude! That's a sweet line. Snow conditions sound a little tricky, but still looks like you guys had a good time. How was the coverage on the cascadian and ulrichs?
Pure volcano magic!
I keep telling myself to transition to summer/spring mellow mode, but I have a strong desire to unlock some more routes on Baker.
I keep telling myself to transition to summer/spring mellow mode, but I have a strong desire to unlock some more routes on Baker.
I prefer La Lavanche, where one can ski untracked powder up to three days after the storm... or coulouir le chapeau, 4,000 vertical of steep windpack...
HAHA!! It is a long way out and my feet don't want to talk about it. Awesome trip for sure.
I was hoping you would go into great detail about the deproach back to the car! Nice tour! I'm hoping things soften up a lot more.
Nice! Hope we get more of that kind of weather in the coming months.
Too Cool! Last time I heard, they were gating the road. I figured skiing at Mary's Peak involved parking the truck and hiking to the snowline. I didn't know they quit locking the gate! Thanks for the heads-up! Great pictures!
I skied up at Santiam Pass last Sat and the snow got extremely soft. So soft they stopped traffic on 20 to clear a small slide off Hogg Rock. Looks like I would've been better off skiing up to Mary's Peak!
I skied up at Santiam Pass last Sat and the snow got extremely soft. So soft they stopped traffic on 20 to clear a small slide off Hogg Rock. Looks like I would've been better off skiing up to Mary's Peak!
author=jtack link=topic=24528.msg103626#msg103626 date=1334679496]
I think I'm too much of a whiner baby to travel with your crew!
HA! You'd have broke trail and we'd ski twice as far. Sorry you couldn't join us Jamie!
What a trip! I think I'm too much of a whiner baby to travel with your crew! thanks for the great trip report.
Hey - nice trip, thanks for the post. Been up there in summer climbing but not yet for a ski - this and a couple other trips reports make me want to do so. You folks look like you had your packing down to the lean and mean weight based on the size of your packs.
Sweet - that looks like a great vantage up there! We were checking out the low snow line in the coast range from the top of Tom Dick peak a week ago - that sounds great to make a spring tour out there.
As a college student at OSU in the 70's I spent many days and nights on Mary's exploring and gaining solitude from the classroom. Having never skied her, I am envious of this trip Stoudema. This TR is just what the doctor ordered. Great nostalgia, great TR. Way to bag the mistress of the coast range.
Thanks for sharing this. I've always wondered if there was skiing up in dem hills.
Good work, Jamie! I was just looking at Chumstick the other day. I'm glad someone skied it because it looks perfect from town right now! Way to persevere on the approach :)
Wish the snow had been that good deeper in the chute, but then again, there is something about steep dust on crust that elevates your level of focus far beyond the day to day.
Arron,hope you are on the mend, it was a slog for ~1200 vert. , but it was good turning. .......... Al, you can still bag it, we were working on a beargrass, pine needle rating for the slide out, take your rock board. In the end we were down to equal parts sliding on snow, and walking/sliding on dirt beargrass and pine needles!
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I'm surprised noone replied yet! What should have been done differently? Head down earlier? Another descent route? Did you do any snow tests? Or was it just time of day and season? Thanks for the TR-good warning for this snow -laden spring.
Telemack, I'm a little surprised no one replied either...
Obviously, staying home would have been a sa...
Fantastic! Great weather and powder too, nice work making it happen!
back in my eastern sierra days, i used to think 6000 feet was a "big climb". but now that i've been to the top of my first cascade volcano, i've got a new definition for that term!
for once, i've got no pictures to add, as i forgot my camera in the predawn hustle. thanks to both of you guys for taking some great shots to document my longest climb to date! sure we could have done it in less than 12 hours but it was mighty fun relaxing a...
for once, i've got no pictures to add, as i forgot my camera in the predawn hustle. thanks to both of you guys for taking some great shots to document my longest climb to date! sure we could have done it in less than 12 hours but it was mighty fun relaxing a...
It was great running into you -- nice pics and video.
Those little creeks to the east of Nordic pass can be a pain -- I skiied out that way earlier this year Trip Report trying to go between the creeks and Mt Catherine. I ended up having to climb (sidestepping :P ) a fair amount.
I've got a box of blue diamonds any time you want to mark the definitive route through...
Those little creeks to the east of Nordic pass can be a pain -- I skiied out that way earlier this year Trip Report trying to go between the creeks and Mt Catherine. I ended up having to climb (sidestepping :P ) a fair amount.
I've got a box of blue diamonds any time you want to mark the definitive route through...
author=Jonn-E link=topic=24517.msg103589#msg103589 date=1334608509]
I too bumped up on the windlip to escape the chunder, following your tracks, but then when they peeled over the blind rollover skiers right I lost faith and bailed over the windlip
It's filled in good right now, but it will get more exciteing as it melts...
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author=ryanl link=topic=24510.msg103592#msg103592 date=1334612293]
Cool trip John and Kyle
Thanks Ryan. Hope you got your fill of red and green chili in Taos. It's high time we start working our way to Prusik Peak.
I also enjoyed the silver peak highmark park on Sunday....via the hyak road slog. Returned via nordic pass and got lost, caught between various uncrossable streams. I need to go back armed with 100 blue diamonds to affix to every tree on the correct path. Oops...
Here are some more photos/videos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/76533141@N00/sets/72157629467496754/
Should have brought this map with me..
http://www.nwhikers.net/forums/download.php?id=328790008_26d5baea7...
Here are some more photos/videos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/76533141@N00/sets/72157629467496754/
Should have brought this map with me..
http://www.nwhikers.net/forums/download.php?id=328790008_26d5baea7...
author=alecapone link=topic=24510.msg103572#msg103572 date=1334590488]
Yeah boys!!
looks fun to me.
Glad you guys didn't try role reversal again. Kyle would have had to air his way out of that one.
Thanks Scott! At least now I'll quit bugging you to ski this one, eh?
Group of 4 must have been a bit later. Chute was starting to refreeze into nasty by the time I got there...I too bumped up on the windlip to escape the chunder, following your tracks, but then when they peeled over the blind rollover skiers right I lost faith and bailed over the windlip left and made the best of the rest by hugging right under the cliff. Remeeting yours (and others that I don't know where they came from) tracks below the cliffs, I then had life-affirming hero tu...
I was solo but skied past a group of three just above the chute and a group of two at the chute entrance, probably a little before one. I traversed hard right once into the main chute cause there was some debris. Once I was on top of the wind lip I skied fall line to the glacier. Then skied down the middle of the glacier. Last Sunday I tried the same thing but had to skin back to paradise cause the light was so flat I couldn't tell what was up or down. It is on...
Looks like you guys got it, nice work! Wish I didn't have class on friday.
Thanks for the comments! i'm almost always too lazy to stop & take pics/film, but this was fun putting together
Hey Sam, yeah it was the top choke that was icy... Adam might have some spicy footage... think Glen Plake, Couloir Poubelle 1988 ;) We did have a look down the headwall, but the snow didn't look very inviting.
Hey Sam, yeah it was the top choke that was icy... Adam might have some spicy footage... think Glen Plake, Couloir Poubelle 1988 ;) We did have a look down the headwall, but the snow didn't look very inviting.
Nice send Ed and crew!
cool video too, hard to capture steep skiing experience but you did
cool video too, hard to capture steep skiing experience but you did
I think I followed your tracks! Were you by chance the party of 4 I watched from Pebble Creek? If so what was your descent line to the glacier? I couldn't figure that part out. We were some of the last off the mountain, down on the glacier by 5:30 right as the sun became occluded and the light went flatter....making the huge white valley and featureless terrain weirdly disorienting. After the toe the mank was sticky, as was expected for such a late descent.
It was a first for...
It was a first for...
The name alone would be worth the effort. Chumstick..
Nice Randy - I'm sorry I missed this fun tour - one of my favorites - and the chance to ski with you and the pooch again! Catch you soon - Jim
Jealous... I can't watch the video!
Yeah boys!!
looks fun to me.
Glad you guys didn't try role reversal again. Kyle would have had to air his way out of that one.
looks fun to me.
Glad you guys didn't try role reversal again. Kyle would have had to air his way out of that one.