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Sick line Dash! I bet you loaded your diaper on the way down!
author=Boot link=topic=20074.msg85267#msg85267 date=1299711345]
Those are MY sweeeeet "turns from the day before". I knew you would want complete accuracy ;D. Glad you came along and had a good time.
Boot
I thought Kyle said they were his -- anyway, it's corrected now!
sweet shot
Approaching the top of Sarvant Glacier, with Banshee Peak at right.
Approaching the top of Sarvant Glacier, with Banshee Peak at right.
Those are MY sweeeeet "turns from the day before". I knew you would want complete accuracy ;D. Glad you came along and had a good time.
Boot
Boot
author=Kyle Miller link=topic=20070.msg85223#msg85223 date=1299692383">
The second day Amar Joined us and we followed our old skin track up the Sarvant only to reach bad weather once again. Not wanting to retrace our steps once again we rode down the Sarvant then skinned up Tamanos col, rode down to Owyhigh lakes then traversed to the NW avi chutes of Tamanos where we rode a large avi swath to within a mile of the snowmos.
(Sadly I have no photos or...
I was the one involved in the avalanche but I was lucky/fortunate enough to figure out what was going on before it was too late.
Sorry for poaching your pics Boot ;)
and the song is by Pendulum.
Sorry for poaching your pics Boot ;)
and the song is by Pendulum.
author=savegondor link=topic=20003.msg85225#msg85225 date=1299692850]
Yes, pretty sobering report and VERY helpful. The logic the author used was similar to the logic I would have used or maybe exact. I was in the area a couple weeks ago in the cirque to the lookers right or to the W/SW or up the White Pine valley one more over. Same logging road access. For what it's worth you can get higher in very thick timber on ridgeline terrain but like the swat...
Good info, thanks for that. And a location revealed to boot, albeit a popular one!
Wow Kyle, that runout on interglacier goes forever. Looks like a full day.
Silas you forget to mention why we bailed. 8-10" soft slabs on hoar frost have formed and are EXTREMELY touchy up on mt snoqualmie right now. The warm & clear nights clearly did some damage. How many slides did we set off, 5, 6? We skiied the phantom slide since it was too sketchy to commit to the slot.
Here's some pics, one with a lovely sympathetic slide to our skintrack.
Here's some pics, one with a lovely sympathetic slide to our skintrack.
Thanks for posting. I stare at this area on the topo all the time and, as everyone else has mentioned, avoid it because of the low elevation slog in. Nice to see that it looks like the approach effort is worth it.
author=MattT link=topic=20070.msg85241#msg85241 date=1299698274]
awesome stuff.
Im assuming your buddy is ok from that slide at the end of the first video?!?
Speaking of First Video: Who is that song by? That is awesome!
And...uh... after seeing the whole vid, I will have to re-ask the same question about your buddy and the Avy.
Wow.
AND, artistically, the music edit was awesome for the whole thin...
awesome stuff.
Im assuming your buddy is ok from that slide at the end of the first video?!?
Im assuming your buddy is ok from that slide at the end of the first video?!?
you know how i love that you get back there in winter .. tamanos is a fave haunt of mine .. you just make me want to go there NOW! .. just like the last time you were on the sarvant
btw .. awesome video .. great camera technique ..
btw .. awesome video .. great camera technique ..
Nice Kyle. It looks like you are a trail breaking machine out there...as always. Hopefully I can join you on a mission soon.
p.s. that avy looks realllly scary.
p.s. that avy looks realllly scary.
author=Kyle Miller link=topic=20070.msg85230#msg85230 date=1299693713]
Filled in and epic conditions for all 2,200 feet.
I have a idea for a rad tour once the weather clears out.
I was thinking about that run when I was giving you a ride up the other day and we were talking Tamanos.
Uhhghhh....I don't think a skier has ever skied that, just boarders. I can think of one maybe...
You give us skiers somethin...
Filled in and epic conditions for all 2,200 feet.
I have a idea for a rad tour once the weather clears out.
I have a idea for a rad tour once the weather clears out.
author=Kyle Miller link=topic=20070.msg85223#msg85223 date=1299692383]
Not wanting to retrace our steps once again we rode down the Sarvant then skinned up Tamanos col, rode down to Owyhigh lakes then traversed to the NW avi chutes of Tamanos where we rode a large avi swath to within a mile of the snowmos.
I know exactly the swath you are speaking of and I have wanted to ski that for years. How was the vine maple at the bottom?? C...
I want to see some pictures of Tyler's blower O face, I know more must exist somewhere.
Yes, pretty sobering report and VERY helpful. The logic the author used was similar to the logic I would have used or maybe exact. I was in the area a couple weeks ago in the cirque to the lookers right or to the W/SW or up the White Pine valley one more over. Same logging road access. For what it's worth you can get higher in very thick timber on ridgeline terrain but like the swath things change VERY quickly from safe to dangerous.
I get the feel...
I get the feel...
Awesome Kyle, thanks for posting. Great catching up with you at Crystal the other day, hopefully under better circumstances next time.
thx .. i'm actually really looking forward to strapping on the boards this spring and heading back up there for some sweet corn .. we are new at bc skiing and thought we would have a tough time skiing in those conditions .. i hear ya zap (our bc teacher up at snoqualmie pass who warned us) .. btw zap i went to ski in utah last month .. at alta and snow basin for some practice and it was so icy i couldn't do any turns .. my bro is a double black resort skier and he was able to find some...
author=John_Morrow link=topic=19808.msg85199#msg85199 date=1299684616]
Hello,
I was wondering if you folks could clue me in on Hurricane Ridge overnight parking policy. In the old days one had to descend a few miles to a pullout below Mt Angeles. Can we park at the top now?
Thanks,
John
You still have to park down below, but the park rangers were kind enough to give us a ride back to the Obstruction Point road on...
Kath: Outstanding! The sentiments, the pictures, the aesthetics! (I looked at all the snow pics on your website). I wold hope snowshoers such as yourself would post trip reports here given the quality of your pictures and your sense of aesthetics. After all, snowshoers make turns too ...
thx .. when we got to the ridge and saw this beautiful track i said to the skiers that i didn't even want to head out in snowshoes as our tracks beside them would destroy the scene ..
here as we started up the skyline ridge we traversed well around to the left (instead of the shorter straight up) just so we wouldn't destroy the slope for skiers .. had it been more than just a leisur...
here as we started up the skyline ridge we traversed well around to the left (instead of the shorter straight up) just so we wouldn't destroy the slope for skiers .. had it been more than just a leisur...
Poptarts!!!
great photos and report.
great photos and report.
hey, how'd I miss this?
Very nice victor and jake! Your pictures show how awesome the snow was. Way to score the blue sky.
you should have tomahawked the CNC jake.
Very nice victor and jake! Your pictures show how awesome the snow was. Way to score the blue sky.
you should have tomahawked the CNC jake.
Hello,
I was wondering if you folks could clue me in on Hurricane Ridge overnight parking policy. In the old days one had to descend a few miles to a pullout below Mt Angeles. Can we park at the top now?
Thanks,
John
I was wondering if you folks could clue me in on Hurricane Ridge overnight parking policy. In the old days one had to descend a few miles to a pullout below Mt Angeles. Can we park at the top now?
Thanks,
John
author=acarey link=topic=20035.msg85193#msg85193 date=1299679551]
...sound like you have N & S reversed on your moral compass ::)--in my case, who was doing the taking, son?
Understood acarey. My apologies for implying you were doing the taking, not my intention.
Your conversation just reminded me of the Seinfeld scene in that it obliterates what I feel are American social norms, especially for the PNW backcountry....
author=kath link=topic=20035.msg85147#msg85147 date=1299639734]
we were up on mazama and skyline in snowshoes .. and while the only track up to mazama was mutually shared with no complaints .. when we proceeded to the skyline .. yeah we broke our own trail beside the fresh skin tracks .. but on the descent i thought skiers wouldn't even be using the tracks anyhow?? .. no matter .. just saying
Kath, it is great your made your...
author=JibberD link=topic=20035.msg85166#msg85166 date=1299648175">
I missed a good one here!
acarey, sounds like maybe you learned a thing or two from Jerry Seinfeld
Never watched him (til this link); sound like you have N & S reversed on your moral compass ::)--in my case, who was doing the taking, son?
Your pictures look like fun.
We went up there on the 6th. Air was cold and snow was dry at the lake but it was white out on the slopes above.
Then we saw Dwayne, the red-bearded avi ranger for ONP who had only disparaging words on the snow pack stability.
So rather than risk it (for a day of poor vis above the trees) we baled out. It was a nice hike thru another pretty forest,.
We went up there on the 6th. Air was cold and snow was dry at the lake but it was white out on the slopes above.
Then we saw Dwayne, the red-bearded avi ranger for ONP who had only disparaging words on the snow pack stability.
So rather than risk it (for a day of poor vis above the trees) we baled out. It was a nice hike thru another pretty forest,.
author=jdclimber link=topic=20048.msg85045#msg85045 date=1299569003]
Thanks for the video. It really captured the day and the magic of dropping into a foggy nether world. Really enjoyed spending the day with you. Wish the snow was more pow and less chalky.
It was a huge day for the wife and she certainly achieved far more than she expected . It blows my mind to think of the progress she has made in the last few weeks. In January she broke down at the top...
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let's i'm trailing a buddy with snoeshows on, as do i. I step between his step and look back at the skin, seeing it is flat , level, and not as icy as i found it. what do you say there? not trying to be a smart ass or piss anyone off but sometimes it's too steep and deep to keep footing.
Great photos! Dicey is just hardcore!
Nice all the way around...which artist provided the music for the video?
Hey man, I've done that! (the beater, that is).
Hey, who couldn't love
that teetering, freeheeling,
yummy Cascades crud?
Hey, who couldn't love
that teetering, freeheeling,
yummy Cascades crud?
author=acarey link=topic=20035.msg84985#msg84985 date=1299547689">
Skinning up the Westside Road today in a track we've put in for the last week, I came across Bronka Sundstrom and friend on skis with a friend on snowshoes. We stopped to talk. The snowshoer (a woman in her late 60s) complained that snowshoeing in the skin track was difficult (given the crusty snow on the edges). I said, "you know you shouldn't be snowshoeing in the skin trac...
author=cumulus link=topic=20003.msg85102#msg85102 date=1299614063]
thanks to Gary too for additional info. I read this several times. I get the first part, but do larger convex slopes have a stiffer slab layer than smaller ones? Or is it the other way around? or is stiffness here used in relation to surface area?
thanks,
Stefan
The gist of it is that a thicker overlying slab can have considerable strength s...
author=eze link=topic=20003.msg85022#msg85022 date=1299558464]
The layer on which the slab released was indeed pretty slick. I think it was a rain crust, probably an inch or two thick that needed hard kicks to put in steps as I hiked up. Perhaps some faceting occurred above it during the cold snaps? When it released it did go quick.
I reread your post again, EZE, and WOW, I'm not only impressed with your good luck,...
we were up on mazama and skyline in snowshoes .. and while the only track up to mazama was mutually shared with no complaints .. when we proceeded to the skyline .. yeah we broke our own trail beside the fresh skin tracks .. but on the descent i thought skiers wouldn't even be using the tracks anyhow?? .. no matter .. just saying
Your video with tune made my day. MGMT, who are those guys? Thanks.
I'm glad you guys liked it, thanks for the positive vibes.
Thanks for sharing a wonderful tour with great photography.
author=Rusty Knees link=topic=20061.msg85119#msg85119 date=1299620628]
I hope you give 'em hell for ruining your tracks, like you did the lady on the West Side Road. But watch out for the bobcat - yeoww, Cat Fight!
Not only do we not give them hell, we feed 'em!
I can say I've done this fine little tour and it's a very cool area, but as with all TR's, sure would like to see some pics of coverage, tracks, etc.
;D
at least you've had a 'wilderness experience'.
at least you've had a 'wilderness experience'.