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How was traversing from the back side of pineapple over to melakwa lake?

Wow, I made some really sloppy turns! Ha. Anyhow, good film, story and pics guys. Nice to meet you up there.

Lots of images. Here's a few...

Great photos and location selection.

Nice day on the face of Granite Mt. despite weather being quite warm and soggy.  Skinning up the SW rib was a workout!

Two clips of Peter (Splitter):
http://vimeo.com/19372709

http://vimeo.com/19373180

sweet ..

Jim, Sorry to hear that you only had 2 days in the alpine with all that fresh powder.  I'll bet you had to suffer getting that white stuff flowing over your knees, up onto your waist and then regrettably on your face.  Geeeeez, you must have had a terrible time.  O yeah, you really missed some great weather and storm cycles here in the PNW while you were gone.

We are jealous but glad you are back to share our misery.  See ya Wednesday evening - it should be blower powder.   ;)

post a pic of the farmed furrows off facebook :) see you in march

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Enjoy!

Wow...heavy duty!

The new snow at 5500' was of mashed-potato quality, and generally not bonded well to the underlying crust.  The sluffs we did trigger propagated until they reached flatter terrain below.  In our case, since we were in the trees on rolling benches, none of these went far or had the chance to get going very fast.

There was a lot of evidence of natural slide activity in the chutes we passed on the way, both older debris and snowballing/pinwheeling of the new snow.  L...

Happy birthday to you!

author=alpymarr link=topic=19340.msg81957#msg81957 date=1296336402]
Powder farming is huge and nearly every line is farmed with precision. It makes sense because sometimes there can be weeks between good dumps and people want to leave some for the next day or even week.

See all you nay sayers, I'm not the only one who believes in powder turn preservation.  8)

Thanks for the report, gotta love Utah snow and it&...

The scene is more open. Tons of folks out in the BC and everyone seems to be nice and willing to answer my noob questions on routes, aspects, etc. Also, most people I see are great skiers. Out in LCC most people are ski bums and live up there and ski everyday and have the general ski in day drink in night attitude. I like that. Powder farming is huge and nearly every line is farmed with precision. It makes sense because sometimes there can be weeks between good dumps and people want to leave som...

Nice Alpymarr.
Whats the scene like down there and how does it differ from the PMW scene?

author=alpymarr link=topic=19321.msg81945#msg81945 date=1296330184]
Nice sunset pics...making me wish I was up there for a visit. Anyone thought of skiing Fuhrer Finger during the nice window going on up there?

Attempted to do just that on 1/27.  We experienced 65+MPH sustained winds from the W, gusting higher.  The winds had scoured everything down to bulletproof ice on the Wilson Glacier.  We wanted to climb the W...

There are actually two locks on there. One with the "code" and the other one looked just like a padlock. 

Boarding into the trees:  http://vimeo.com/19318433

That poor road ranger probably had more to do than just lowering the flag.  It's been quite awhile, but I'd sometimes have to close up as a volly, when the rangers were otherwise engaged. This included locking & checking the buildings for vandalism or B&E's; comparing the remaining license plates in the lot to those signed out overnight & passing that list to dispatch; and leaving the current Longmire gate combo on the vehicles of late day-trippers.  Also securing the...

Thanks..we spent the whole day on the south slopes dropping towards butler creek. The snow was nice corn back there. An inch or two penatration. The last run in twilight down the north side was actually better than I thought it was going to be. Weakened firnspiegel in the upper bowl and a softened crust down lower.  Even the narada slope was fun in the dark. And yes...we arrived to a locked gate at 6:20ish.

Nice, Salal...
"Illuminated Castle" eh? :)

Well, zooming in on the photo above, the solid rime ice is as high as the anemometer's rotor:



So even after the rotor melted free enough to start spinning, the ice would still substantially obstruct airflow onto the rotor. It would make sense that the readings might be low until the ice melted away enough for the rotor to get an unobstructed flow of wind.

The...

Looks like fun.  Nice work rong and Amar!

author=runningclouds link=topic=19239.msg81830#msg81830 date=1296199564]
Corn in January? That's nuts. It does not look like there is a lot of snow either.
Are you having a low snow year in south Washington?

The south side of St Helens is definitely showing a lot of bare rock, especially along the ridges, quite a lot more than is typical for January. A consequence of recent heavy rainfall and occasional sunshine.