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Well done.  North side of Cannon Mtn looks interesting in your last pic.

Thanks Kevin! I left out the carnage about the deproach. As you know, the mudslide closed the road about 1.5 miles from 8 mile road. On top of that, there are two miles of dry road to hike back to bridge creek c.g.    We ended up hiking a total of about 4 miles back to 8 mile c.g.  The climbers scratching up classic crack looked at us as if we were aliens as we walked by with skis and boots.

Nice work John. I can see why you wanted ski that line!

In regards to the approach, they still have some work to do to clear the road I assume?

Mofro, if you'd been on board we'd have been out before nightfall.

Erik, we came out west of Gold creek, and crossed that beauty with deer-like grace right about a mile from the trailhead. We'd been following a faint but relatively recent skin and dog track from Alaska but got fed up with unfamiliar uneven terrain. And you may be right about the question mark peak, but I think Trevor's got it right.

Nice work and great picts!!

That mystery peak got me to pull out the topo software.  My guess is that your '?' is actually Chair.  The ones labeled Chair and Kaleentan are Kaleetan and maybe Roosevelt.  Not quite enough pixels to be sure...

WRT to the exit, did you follow the summer trail or do something different?  How did the NE bowl of Alta look?

Awesome TR and a fantastic effort.
Way to pack it all into a single day, w00t!

love looking at the pictures here at work on a rainy Monday !  wonderful!

nice job guys!

What a beauty of a day!

Gotta admit, when Zbo told me you guys were heading out to Chikamin Sat,  I was a little jealous.... I was not 21 hrs jealous or GC exit jealous though. ;)

Way to get after it!

that's a great, great trip you two. I love it.

It was a great day in the mountains.  Really fun seeing your tracks on Shuksan after returning from the Watson.  Good effort buddy.  Here is Louie's write up of the Watson.

http://www.wildsnow.com/4981/watsons-traverse/

Congrats to all the great trips put up over the weekend.

Awesome video! Pretty sure I was the guy you met up top with the girl. The other two skies not the snowshoes if you saw them.. With the girl who actually talked while i just sat there lol.

We had basically the same conditions as you guys but after you sort of stopped in the first run we went skiers right. Really ran into everything from 3-4" of powder to ice to sticky snow to corn. Made skiing interesting. 100" of corn then sticky snow followed by powder followed by ice lol....

Love the first and second photos. Nice feeling of being in the action.

This turned out to be a great trip, some would even say "epic."



But Kenji always seems to have fun in the sun, dancing down long couloirs.  Charge or is it "Charger?"

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Thanks for the TR, nice work.  What was your route of ascent?

Commonwealth, then up between Guye Peak and Cave Ridge.

Great job! So inspirational!

Excellent.

Nice work! 

Awesome, hats-off to you! 

Kaaa-POW!

Wow, we were going to write up a TR for the exact same dates but got beaten to it?!?! I'm surprised we didn't see you because we got back at about the same time too. Or did we? As a family party we were pretty conspicuous.

We camped on the saddle between the Macbeth and Iago glaciers. This spared us most of the ice, except for one death-defying traverse.

It seemed like we were s...

That second picture is spectacular. Nice trip boys

So many trips getting done this weekend - amazing - spearhead day trips, forbidden tour, nisqually ice cliff, watson traverse.................guess the guns were loaded for a break in the weather!  Happy Easter ;-)

Hell yeah! Remote, committing, inspiring! Congratulations you guys!