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Cool trip!  I usually start hallucinating around hour 18.  21 hours sounds grueling!  Mt. Thompson looks big...

Nice.  Leaving the NW Face of Matier to you real mountaineer types, we took a local's tip and skied the Stonecrop Glacier route on Slalock (up Anniversary Gl. and over) Friday after skiing Vantage on Thursday - by Jon's GPS, we had dropped the first 3300' before it stopped being continuous faceshot powder.  Quite a show from the sun warmed point releases high on Joffre.  What an area.  What a spring.

ok, more eye candy

looks amazing thanks! Was considering but my partner decided for something wya more mellower  for a tour after not doing anything for a month :)

Should be up there mothers day weekend though! glad to hear its still pretty decent snow!

Excellent day for such a trip! I was up i tha area on Super  Bowl Sunday, and it was all rain!! I've also heard this called, 'Big Guye' couloir. Thanks for the Beta...

Wow, nice work guys.

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

Badass. Well done, guys.

Karl and Eric Blumhagen
mid 90's
207's
no axes

night night

Oh my. That last shot. Killing me.

Dan and Drew - super cool, i have climbed it as an ice climb ;-)  Guess i need to get one of those anti gravity suits or something.  Congratulations boys!

Awesome, great line in primo conditions!!  Good work.

Great trip Oyvind (and crew), on a great line! Glad you all had such a good time.

strong work guys, and great pics.  congrats!

Nice job guys! Beautiful pics.

Awesome. In this day and age I wouldn't be surprised if someone ski based right off the ice cliff.

WOW, that was a quick trip.  You had beautiful weather and the photos are great.  When I did the traverse, we had an extra day which allowed time to ski more.  It's great that you were able to ski to the base with the fat snowpack. I remember having to hike down from the lower gondola station.   :'(

Wow that line is so filled in.

Great work on a line so many people have been waiting to slay.

nice lines and trajectory!

Cooler than a moose & twice as hairy!

As native guide Sluiskin said in the Chinook jargon trade language after the reputed 1st ascent of Rainier by Stevens & Van Trump:  "Skookum tillicum! Skookum tumtum!"  (Strong men!  Brave hearts!)  Impressive feat, Bravo!

Great work you all, skiing one of the few remaining unskied routes on the Mountain. (If someone has skied the Ice Cliff before, I'd like to find out about it!) In all the years that I can recall, the route has never had as clean and direct a ski line as it does this year.

And it was really nice to run into you at Pebble Creek afterwards, fresh off the big descent, and chat for a bit. We were headed down the Nisqually towards the bridge anyway, so we ended up following your tracks...

nice one

If we had known, we'd have skied more neatly!

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so, is that a first ski descent of the full length of the route (with rappel)? maybe it's a stupid question but i've only heard of sky sjue skiing the upper face and bailing due to conditions. any other record of ski descents? lowell?

First ski descent that I know of.