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October 16, 2011, Bagley Lakes Alluvial Fan

author=Mtraslin link=topic=21994.msg94204#msg94204 date=1319058644]
Thanks for this report....It made me reschedule my life..

Bahahah! I'm gonna have to use that as my signature...

Nice work, team!

10/19/11 6:48am

GregLange

Telemack: Yep, 168 months. As my son says, "It sounds longer and more cool that way!" I love that area, and spent many good days up there. It's only 2.75 hours from Edmonds...

10/19/11 6:13am

wolfs

Oct 18, 2011, Mt Rainier, Muir, Smooth Sunset Corn

A Prost to the often overlooked virtues of a late in the day start! I've had four different trips like that out of Paradise this year, and 3 out of 4 I was pretty convinced that I had better snow and a more memorable experience playing chicken with the sunset versus having started at "normal" time and letting daylight (and twilight, and the last possible light) go to waste.

10/19/11 6:12am

ema

Oct 18, 2011, Mt Rainier, Muir, Smooth Sunset Corn

Nice tracks!!!

10/19/11 6:10am

Mtraslin

Thanks for this report....It made me reschedule my life.. for a Summit ski YESTERDAY...October 18...

10/19/11 6:10am

Mtraslin

Oct 13, 2011, Baker skiing Video

Great! Thanks for sharing.

10/19/11 6:05am

Jeff_Ward

Eduardo,
Nice video. A few of those shots are of our group. Man, what a great day. Hopefully there will be more of the same soon.

I was just up on Shuksan yesterday and the snow was still good on the north aspects. Everything facing the sun was cooked but the snow in the shade was perfect. Unfortunately I was climbing and didn't have my skis with me.

10/19/11 5:46am

Charlie Hagedorn

October 18, 2011, Paradise Glacier

Aw, man. The office was _way_ more fun than that! :).

10/19/11 5:45am

Brian C

October 16, 2011, Bagley Lakes Alluvial Fan

author=James Wells link=topic=21995.msg94104#msg94104 date=1318819874]
There was one big crevasse, in the usual spot climbers right of and a bit below the cliff, in the bowl between the cliff and the wind lip. We stayed entirely out of the bowl because there are always crevasses there, and even though we could not see any others, they sure were there last year and presumably they are lurking even if they got a good filling in last winter.

10/19/11 3:21am

Oyvind_Henningsen

Congratulations Greg!! :)

10/18/11 11:02pm

telemack

October 16, 2011, Bagley Lakes Alluvial Fan

Way to go on the 14 years. 168 months, right? 8)

10/18/11 10:09pm

bs.

what a fortuitous start to my first winter in the pnw!

it was great fun meeting you all and sharing the amazement of superlative early season snow.

as excited as i was to ride, i still managed to snap a few quick photos.

10/18/11 1:21pm

hedonaut

Oct 13, 2011, Baker skiing Video

nice catch crew, way to culminate her / Colemanator / culminator

10/18/11 8:47am

danpeck

13Oct2011. Occupy Baker.

Rad!

I feel extremely lucky to have recently moved to the great NW from Utah.

10/18/11 1:50am

eduardo blanchard

13Oct2011. Occupy Baker.

ErikT: Heliotrope/Upper Grouse Creek area.

Some video of the day here

10/18/11 1:20am

eduardo blanchard

Nice video Jeff!

I was shooting indiscriminately at people on Thursday. I'm pretty sure I have you guys on video in a couple scenes.

http://vimeo.com/30738612

10/18/11 1:15am

Gary_H

Great day to be in the mountains, sorry we missed out on the fun.
Hopefully we can make it next year. :D

Gary and Jan

10/17/11 12:39pm

skykilo

Happy birthday, Ben; I love you way homo. Must have just touched myself in a sensitive place after cutting a habanero for the curry.

10/17/11 12:17pm

hedonaut

Oct 8, 2011, Mt Rainier-Camp Muir Attempt-9800ft

deeeeee-luxe! way to catch it you guys.

10/17/11 11:37am

Alexander

Although I don't contribute much to TAY and although I haven't tayed even once in my whole life I would like to defend Amar. I moved to the PNW a few years ago and Amar's website (and also TAY) have been valuable sources of information.
While everyone has to make their decisions based on the actual conditions encountered on the trip, erroneous information read in a TR may still cloud one's judgement. I fully agree with Amar that everyone should try their bestto put corr...

10/17/11 11:04am

mcohen

@Gregg, please stop talking about freinds on your flanks...it's a disturbing image.
@ Ryan, nice style, though you don't look hungover at all. I had a tough hike of close to four miles, round trip on Sunday. My training is intense.

Mike

10/17/11 8:20am

David_Coleman

Oct 8+13, 2011, Muir via Paradise Gl, 10 yrs TAY

Yes Jessie - I have always managed to have a very good time on my namesake route. Us Coleman's tend to deliver solid results... 8)

10/17/11 8:03am

cjm720

Cool dual TR and congrats!

10/17/11 7:59am

Scotsman

Oct 8, 2011, Mt Rainier-Camp Muir Attempt-9800ft

Yesterday 10/16, PNWBrit( banned) and I went up to Camp Muir. At about 9800 elevation, during the never ending final slog to Muir, I said to PNWBrit..... "we can turn around here if you want to.... I won't tell Amar, if you won't !!!" hahahah.

10/17/11 7:39am

Gregg_C

Saturday was an exquisite fall day. Nice to look across the water on my long ride and see Baker in a fresh mantle of snow with many of my friends on her flanks.

10/17/11 6:51am

jesski

author=Amar Andalkar link=topic=21999.msg94116#msg94116 date=1318839092]
Too busy [...] taking nude photos, I guess.

Glad you guys found something worthwhile to occupy your time. It's unfortunate we didn't all converge upon the summit to take part in birthday-suit festivities.

10/17/11 6:32am

jesski

Coleman reports on his Coleman-on-Coleman experience= always excellent.

re crevasse & slide, glad you guys had fun and made it out safely.

10/17/11 6:26am

Lisa

Nicely done Ryan and Jessie! That is my favorite side of the mountain. Glad you had a great trip and superb weather to boot.

10/17/11 5:31am

jesski

Steph: I concur that this trip cannot be done justice for me via words, though if any could come close, Ryan's impeccable report would be the obvious candidate!

Would have been great to have gotten some shots of him skiing down in the sunset, making perfect hop turns and then milking the pow lower down: orange pants, blue jacket, orange hat, and gorgeous sunset... all on a backdrop of white snow, glacial blues, blue mountains in the distance. I feel very fortunate for having had...

10/17/11 3:07am

Steph M

Beautiful weather, beautiful pictures, and beautiful people!

Jessie, The text messages didn't do this trip justice :-)

Well done you two!

10/17/11 1:27am

daveb

October 15, 2011, Spray Park

Way to style it you two! Not leave the City until 5 am and ski the Park in Oct is pretty smooth.

10/17/11 1:11am

RyanPete81

Late morning skinning on the snowfield below the Flett glacier (nice sheen and zero ski penetration indicative of firm conditions).

10/17/11 1:10am

cmosetick

author=jpLingo link=topic=21995.msg94113#msg94113 date=1318826250">
In the last picture Are those dynafits on a splitboard? Interesting. How do they work for you? Any other pictures of the hardware for switching to ride mode?

Yes, those are Dynafits on a splitboard. You will need to talk to

10/17/11 12:23am

dirtnerd

Oct 8+13, 2011, Muir via Paradise Gl, 10 yrs TAY

what a great trip!!!!!

haven't seen snow like that since April
great day with clear skies, sparkling snow, excellent views

great company!! so many interesting people in the group. TAY never fails to deliver when I'm looking for partners

haven't had such a fun ski trip in a while. Thanks to everyone for making it so fun.
I'll try to post pics when i get a chance (great pics Chris!!!)

(going to stop writing now before i use...

10/17/11 12:16am

Oyvind_Henningsen

Congratulations Amar. Your trip reports are always inspiring and informative. Thank you very much to the contributions that you continue to make to our sport.

10/16/11 11:49pm

Oyvind_Henningsen

Way to go team! Beautiful day up there yesterday too, but Amar's wind speed meter would have read 10fold, it was clear, cold, and windy - like 'lets get outta here NOW windy'.

"near close encounter with a yawner of a crevasse" - when I saw those tracks yesterday I got the hibee jibees - that was so close. Really happy that the weight was on the inside ski of whoever that was. :)

10/16/11 11:41pm

Oyvind_Henningsen

Jessie and Ryan. Did not think to look down the Park for tracks yesterday. Good call and strong work. Windy and cold at summit yesterday at 13:30.

10/16/11 11:35pm

David_Coleman

I second Amar & Hannah: way to crush it you two. Great summit pic; it looks like it was just a leisurely walk in the park for you guys. I don't see any fatigue on those faces, whatsoever. ;)

10/16/11 9:27pm

Amar Andalkar

Some photos of our group:

Climbing the ridge above Coleman-Deming saddle near 9300 ft, just after we stopped skinning, with Colfax Peak behind.

Ben skins to the summit, with the late afternoon sun reflecting off Puget Sound.

10/16/11 5:44pm

Pandora

Hell yeah! Such a cool route; I'm psyched for you both. Strong work, Jessie and Ryan!

10/16/11 5:13pm

Amar Andalkar

Great work you two! I'm impressed.

We were on the summit from 4:15 until almost 5pm, and none of us ever walked all the way over to the edge to look down the Park Headwall. Too busy celebrating Ben's birthday and taking nude photos, I guess. Would have seen you for sure.

10/16/11 5:11pm

powdherb

Awesome that you guys are skiing that already. Looks like a satisfying day in the mountains. First Park headwall mid-oct? Want.

10/16/11 4:25pm

jpLingo

author=mosetick link=topic=21995.msg94097#msg94097 date=1318811809">
I'm in the process of some infrastructure upgrades to my hardware at home, so I have no choice at the moment but to use a third-party service to host my photos for the time being:
Ruth Mountain - October 15th, 2011

In the last picture Are those dyna...

10/16/11 1:37pm

Marcus

Love this one -- hard to beat that valley for views:

10/16/11 1:20pm

danpeck

Beautiful Post! I've been dreaming of Ruth Mountain for sometime now and the views look amazing. (sigh) Some day...

10/16/11 1:13pm

stoudema

Nice pics - it looks beautiful up there! I'm jealous!

10/16/11 12:55pm

Lisa

Nice! What a great birthday present Ben! 8)

10/16/11 12:40pm

skier8484

author=mosetick link=topic=21995.msg94097#msg94097 date=1318811809">I'm in the process of some infrastructure upgrades to my hardware at home, so I have no choice at the moment but to use a third-party service to host my photos for the time being:
Ruth Mountain - October 15th, 2011

Definitely digging the photos.

10/16/11 11:52am

James Wells