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Thanks for posting and keeping us informed about Tahoe conditions.  One of TAY's former PNW locals is living in Reno now, he loves skiing summer patches, likely lurking here now and in search of September turns perhaps.

Keep 'em coming!

Thanks Stoudema,

I suppose I'll be heading over to Hood to get some turns for Sept, and maybe I'll I stay and get some Oct turns also! Seems a bit like cheating, getting two months in two days at the same place. But it would be my first ever 12 month run, and I could technically call myself a TAY'er!

Glad you got out Lisa, looks like a great day.

All Mtn - honestly can't remember about the Clif bar (I do like chocolate chip), but I don't think so.

fanatic - I'd imagine given the coverage on the Palmer is still in excellent shape and would allow for a couple thousand vertical.  The White River snowfield above the Palmer would probably be worth considering....

Anyone know how Hood is holding up for getting in some last minute September turns??

Some cute photos of you in that album, Lisa. Good to see you aren't drowning under schoolbooks, and keeping your priorities in line ; )

That was one of the choices on the list - instead I went up to Ruth Mt., while a little bit more skiing the snow wasn't as soft and the drive and trail longer.  Looks like it's hanging in there enough for an October outing - looks fun.  Thanks for report.

Great trip.  thanks again for the invite.  still feeling it in my feet

apparently I'm not as good at the km to miles conversion as I thought because i was only expecting about 12 miles instead of 20.   Oh well.  makes for a better story this way.

tuskin'  or perhaps Tuscan. this crossed my mind hauling gear up the hill under the tusk-and-sun (Tuscan[d] sun)

is there a place where i can download Canadian topo maps for free?
something similar to wagd...

Nice exit photo.  ;)

Well, I'm always looking for touring partners...

Silaswild......I believe that was my buddy Dan and I.  We had a great ski down from 8,100' after booting and skinning up on a traverse.  Our first time coming in this way, so we weren't 100% sure where to go.  There were a lot of steep rollovers that ended with cliffs, as you saw our tracks.

We stopped when a rollover turned to rock, and started booting back up.  My buddy fell about 100', booted back up, dropped a ski back down the mountain where it...

author=silaswild link=topic=21818.msg93373#msg93373 date=1316829500]
We saw recent tracks on the far west steep slopes ending at what appeared from below to be a twenty foot cliff.   Hope one or more of those who made the tracks are lurking here, and can let us know how they exited?   Thanks.   :)

Tara and I were up there on the 20th and ran into two skiers when we were crossing over from Muir to the Paradise. (Just above McClure...

Way to keep gettin' it done.

How painful was that road biking?

author=JPH link=topic=21743.msg93170#msg93170 date=1315640066]
Doesn't count...with this kind of motivation you have to go 3x per month.

And depending on the person, if they're that motivated, it may be 3x's/day!

author=skykilo link=topic=21814.msg93351#msg93351 date=1316742392">
Glad the three of you had a good day.  I remember those late September/early October Baker runs.  It made me think of this song: BITD.

What about this one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylslcF-fUeE

Is that patch of snow as smooth as it looks?  What elevation?

Fire Meets Ice!  Thanks for those inspiring shots!

gorgeous .. glad it all worked out for ya .. tues was the day!

I saw that crazy lenticular from Silverdale  :)

WOW, a very big 3 day ski adventure.  The Villarica crater photo is impressive.  It's been enjoyable following your reports.  It rekindles fond memories of our trip to Argentina and Chile.

Thanks  ;)

author=Lynden Don link=topic=21775.msg93341#msg93341 date=1316714654]
I would much rather sweat it out climbing back over table.

I had thought about going up and over Table both for way in and way out. Certainly the top of Table would have been mostly snow and might've been fast and scenic travel. However, there is a steep snowfield sitting on the Artist>>Table trail, right at the point before gaining the steps of trail that...

I spend a lot of time in the Table mountain area.  I absolutely hate the south side of table mountain.  That traverse ALWAYS sucks.  I would much rather sweat it out climbing back over table.

I'm hoping to roll Sept & Oct ski outing into an overnight trip up to Coleman Pinnacle.

Been loving to read your Chilean adventure! I used to work for a ski travel company, and tried with Adam J. for 2 or 3 years to get a group down there. No one ever took the bait. Bet they would now! See you soon for new gear...

I was up there that same day, it was nice meeting you guys.

Here's my pic from the top:

Thanks for keeping me in mind Steve. I really like that tour, and would go any time.