TR Replies
so the two guys that did the slot, did you guys boot down? we saw boot tracks but no ski marks at the top but came across ski tracks at the bottom?
Chores? I didn't think retired people had chores. I thought the only requirement was that y'all have a central meeting place in the morning for coffee.. 8)
That day 4 of us skied Mazama Ridge from Narada Falls to Paradise as part of a ski patrol group. Given the gloomy danger rose for that weekend, we avoided steeper runs and descended from 5800' at Fourth Crossing.
The next day 2/20 we stuck to the front country due to deteriorating conditions including rain. That appears to have been when that elevation was transitioning from human-triggered to natural slide potential.
A week later 2/27 I skied Fourth Crossing again a...
The next day 2/20 we stuck to the front country due to deteriorating conditions including rain. That appears to have been when that elevation was transitioning from human-triggered to natural slide potential.
A week later 2/27 I skied Fourth Crossing again a...
Maybe northern lights tonight from the solar flare on Tuesday. How cool would that be?
Correct on the date but it was completed "just" on the 07th. The ironic part of the turnaround point was that we decided with stability concerns to turnaround. "Lets go to that nice stand of trees over there and transition". Got there and the other party had done the same after we had been waiting to see headlamps on the slot climbout shoulder. We obviously all had similar concerns with the rain crust which became apparant pretty quickly above 5k or so...
author=Jonn-E link=topic=24041.msg101646#msg101646 date=1331141462]
Did you come back so late that it was already today? (Wed, Mar 7), or did you come back from the future to show us what conditions will be like if we go there tonight?! Or, did you finally get around to posting this from a year ago?
If you're from the future thanks for the heads up and I'd like to propose a business idea or 12. :)
Nice perspective of Jim Hill - it took me awhile to recognize it - that's it's North West side, sloping down to Lanham, correct?
I've obviously never been to the summit, since I didn't know there was a false summit. Coolness!
I've obviously never been to the summit, since I didn't know there was a false summit. Coolness!
Thanks Gents,
No matter how many TR's us Kittitas County folks post for Red, it never seems to get popular. Guess it must be the low Salmon La Sac start. If it were only a thousand feet higher the area would be like a minature Crystal w/o the lift chairs!
I was amazed to see two folks on Pt 5703' as we were across the basin on 5722'. I am wondering if they took roughly our skin track from Thursday. Hope they didn't go home unsatisfied on account of the c...
No matter how many TR's us Kittitas County folks post for Red, it never seems to get popular. Guess it must be the low Salmon La Sac start. If it were only a thousand feet higher the area would be like a minature Crystal w/o the lift chairs!
I was amazed to see two folks on Pt 5703' as we were across the basin on 5722'. I am wondering if they took roughly our skin track from Thursday. Hope they didn't go home unsatisfied on account of the c...
The other two skiers was the mystery of the night. A "source" informed us there was a party headed for the Slot; we looked forward to seeing them come out to hear about it. We discovered they turned where we did (about 6,000'). They somehow passed us in the night without a sound. Even the ski patrollers we chatted with in the parking lot had not seen them. Maybe that is why they call it the Phantom... There were a couple of headlamps heading dow...
Nice! Thanks for the call....i was gassed from a long bike ride. Glad the tradition continues.
One of my favorite runs under full moon! Rad. It's a shame I was working late.
Shucks, I was really hoping you'd invented time travel so I could go back and repeat yesterday's face shots.
Nice trip though, I've always wanted to ski under a full moon!
Nice trip though, I've always wanted to ski under a full moon!
That was this morning!!! I struggled a bit getting up the waterfall trees and Rob bailed on the waterfall so that added a fair bit of time to the trip. Leisurely and COLD at 12F up top, 18F in the lot.
Did you come back so late that it was already today? (Wed, Mar 7), or did you come back from the future to show us what conditions will be like if we go there tonight?! Or, did you finally get around to posting this from a year ago?
If you're from the future thanks for the heads up and I'd like to propose a business idea or 12. :)
If you're from the future thanks for the heads up and I'd like to propose a business idea or 12. :)
Beautiful! Now that's a great idea. I love the view back down to the pass.
Nice, R! You keep pushing the dawn patrols up earlier and earlier. :D
Not only the helmet, but looks like Scott is using real gloves, like gortex ones?! must be from all that cave dwelling. What's next? A Patagonia puffer?
I noticed the helmet in the 2nd photo---pretty classy headgear for a skybum.
Nice! Looks great. I'm going to have to adopt the PASQS rating to use along side Kam's Joy-o-meter.
I failed to convince the group to extend the snow challenge to Jove, but had a good day nonetheless. Here is some evidence of the sun we had.
That crib is SICK! 3 or 4 of my friends mentioned it in conversation in the last week
Thanks for the report, my snow exploration further east on Sunday suggested the snow had been warmed up by that Saturday Sunday sun, but was not sure it was the same story on the crest. Seems like you encountered conditions much like those around the Mission ares. Again thanks for the report.
Thanks for posting the interesting photo, Charlie. The lighter runnels below the fractures suggest the rain continued a bit after the slides.
Condition report for Tuesday, March 6: That slick, bumpy rain crust in the photo can still be felt at least as high as 6000' under the new snow, which was quite variable (2-12") in ski penetration. A couple inches of new instead of the sun we were expecting made it hard to see the changes coming. The rain crust was very firm at Par...
Condition report for Tuesday, March 6: That slick, bumpy rain crust in the photo can still be felt at least as high as 6000' under the new snow, which was quite variable (2-12") in ski penetration. A couple inches of new instead of the sun we were expecting made it hard to see the changes coming. The rain crust was very firm at Par...
Nice John! Red or Hex were our other options for Sunday, before we decided for easy wet pickins on Kendall. Looks like a beautiful day at least.
Cool, John. Whacky snowpack -- this too shall pass. I've done a couple nice tours up there. Gotta get up there again. Thanks for bumping my memory ;)
Marcus, it's a fun ski. Hopefully you'll try again in better conditions.
Here's a video of when Tim and I skied this area a couple of years ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edBf7oUgzDQ
Here's a video of when Tim and I skied this area a couple of years ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edBf7oUgzDQ
Great shots Tim... yeah, we popped out of the trees on the bench to the looker's left of the slide, maybe 200 feet below the crown.
Tim got some nice pics of the slide
http://thesnowtroopers.com/2012/snoqualmie-pass-wa-kendall-peaks-avalanches-342012/
http://thesnowtroopers.com/2012/snoqualmie-pass-wa-kendall-peaks-avalanches-342012/
Please bring back a couple of the tram things - I have a few locations in need of installation. Whatever is over the hut looks like a pretty elaborate structure, must be a sunshade to keep the PNWerners feeling at home.
Thanks for the info Hills -- I knew it got skied with some regularity. How could it not, as prominent as it is... But yeah, John, I wasn't willing to go out far enough to get a good look down the chute with all that snow hanging out. Even the broad, protected flat bench that we were standing on had a big settlement fracture from when it ripped out. The flanks down by that spot were still 3-4' tall.
author=John Morrow link=topic=23999.msg101555#msg101555 date=1330956420]
Thanks Marcus! That big couloir has always intrigued, always wondered if it gets skied in times of an appropriate safe window. Looks pretty deeply "v trenched" inplaces, did it look to have decent skiable slope on the edges when you were looking down, or was it hard to see without exposing yourself. Thanks again for going up to scout it for all of us who never made the effort...
I was checking that crown out from our bump shack on top of Hyak yesterday. I think you are right about a point release as the trigger because we could see one or two surface sloughs above it.
Impressive!
Impressive!
Thanks Marcus! That big couloir has always intrigued, always wondered if it gets skied in times of an appropriate safe window. Looks pretty deeply "v trenched" inplaces, did it look to have decent skiable slope on the edges when you were looking down, or was it hard to see without exposing yourself. Thanks again for going up to scout it for all of us who never made the effort.
John
John
We were checking out those ladders -- they're nuts! Overhanging in places. Luckily the gullies straight from the Leschaux to the Talefre glaciers are still snow-filled and very easy to ascend. They melt out quite quickly and become impassable.
There really isn't any safe terrain in Union Creek. It's a very deceptive area because it's "middle ground" terrain. Not super dangerous, right?
Yeah, it was huge -- really impressive and, at the same time, made me not want to get any closer to the edge of the path to get a closer look, in case the hangfire went as the day heated up. We were guessing you could see it from I90.
We could see the this crown from I90 on our drive back from the east side this evening, we were trying to guess how big it was, 6', wow!
Makin' PNW lemonade. I think schmootastic should have entered our lexicon a long time ago.
Rock face over at Alpental went again today too.
Don't worry, the schmoo is not here for long!
From the top of Alpental today, which had wonderful views, there were lots of slides visible on Snoqualmie (wonder if anyone set one off??), Red, Lundin and of course all over Denny itself above Edelweiss bowl and below the Alpental cliffs. So much new snow last week, bit of rain and a ton of sun today a good combo for such action. Beautiful up there though.
From the top of Alpental today, which had wonderful views, there were lots of slides visible on Snoqualmie (wonder if anyone set one off??), Red, Lundin and of course all over Denny itself above Edelweiss bowl and below the Alpental cliffs. So much new snow last week, bit of rain and a ton of sun today a good combo for such action. Beautiful up there though.
Ah, lucky Tab. I remember sitting on the covering boulder and not wanting to ever leave... In winter, did you still have to climb the ladders to get to the Couvercle hut? That would be like a waterfall climb in some places. N
yeah, not the best of days ayeh? observed around 1230 a cornice fall that triggered a loose wet slide that ran about 1000' down a steep gulley then fanned out almost to valley bottom. East facing slope off peak 5476 E of Tye Lake, D1.5 abouts.
sight for sore eyes after a rainy day tour at stevens yesterday, have fun Drew
Making lemonade never looked so good. Great tour.
Thanks for the TR, Don. Always great to have an epic trip with most of it within sight and sound of I-90. I hope you are working on your home chores now, trying to rebuild that stack of chips.
Looks like fun. I stayed in that hut as well as a few others climbing in Chamonix in '88. Wish I was there!
yeah stouds! you got the goods man. love the new avatar on sb.com
excellent post and photos Stoudema. The rim is an excellent touring destination and those yurts are nice. I toured there my first time last winter in about the same conditions you report, there is just enough lower angle terrain to break you into the snowpack there and wet your appetite for the bigger bowls. A very nice place to tour. Thanks for sharing
I've just recovered (this morning) from chasing the others on 4 laps of before work fun on Thursday morning. We had contemplated the Phantom, but given 15" of new on the telemetry, we considered the Stump or Hyak. Hyak won out given safety and potential for max vertical before work in great snow. It was so good, we elected a fourth lap before retreating despite the waning hour. Did one run down the backside. Not as steep as the front, but no one else had d...