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Thanks for the video; nice work!

Great photos. 

My son inlaw and 2 of our sherpa in training grandsons( 11 and 8 years) were at Wildcat on Monday in the storm and returned on Tuesday to find a tree knocked out power to the mountain.  They headed to Atitash where they were stranded on the chair for 30 minutes in the blizzard.  They had a great time and were unsuccessful in convincing their mom that it was fun sitting on the chair and ripping down the powder trails.  Ahhhhh, these 2 guys have the right genes.   ;)

Scott John Doe McMuffin last I heard.

I will leave you this hint.
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This person is roughly in the right area.  A quick look on a topo map should clue it in.  I have now been there two times and have yet to see another track, which based on how good it is and where it is, is nothing short of amazing.  That said, it is very short laps (700-800 vert MAYBE and is very rocky but it has plenty of great cliffs from 5 to...

Like I said Savegondor.... most of the time I'm just hoping for the best . But seriously... I'm not saying a pit doesn't give some useful information( if dug in the right place which is sometimes very difficult) but what I dislike is dogma and the belief by many that digging a pit on every tour or even every slope is a necessity and that those that don't are somehow unsafe or reckless and more importantly that if you do you are a now a paragon of knowledge and safe.
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Thanks for the TR and review of the conditions, although I am sure the snow conditions have made a turn for the worse today with the warmup this morning.  I have been wanting to go ski in that area but have never taken the time to get up there.  Looks fun.  I made the treck up Gnarl Ridge (1 ridge east) last year and found good turns, although the approach was a bit longer. You can check out the report at http://riversearch.blogspot.com/2010/02/mt-hood-back-country-skiing-gnarl-ri...

Seriously? Snowolf and Passenger sign off and no one has anything more to add about BC avalanche protocols in the PNW in the last 24 hours?

I was across the way at Yodelin and the snow was equally as great and stable.  Great day all around.

Nice work. Yes, it was great snow today. We(nomad, not me) broke trail up the road and never seen nor heard a soul all day.  only a couple sets of ski tracks on our exit run down to the old highway.

is this the tour from that snow road that starts in the parking lot accross the street from stevens? I think we took that same route, thanks for breaking trail. snow was blower today!

the route courtesy of my htc evo.

Dig it. Thanks!

Nice!...did Gary tell you, I picked up the Voile Mojo RX this year? Looking forward to hitting the BC with you when he comes back up Jan....looking for some new cool places to tour and this area looks pretty incredible from the multiple TR`s I have seen.

Assuming you didn't ride the lifts, where did you go yesterday up there?

Nice TR: Jeri.....

BTW.... This is Scott from snowboardingforum.com

was the Scott that you hiked with none other than Ale Capone by chance?

These are the trips that make the good bluebird ones just that much better!

Snowolf... listen to Shaman. Your voice is important and as John Wayne once told Barbara Walters..... "don't let the bastards get you down"...( true believe it or not... look it up.) Grow some thicker skin and suck it up. We need new members in the club.... even soloists. ;)
I learnt a lot from the discussion and Skykilo( albeit with a "cough") agreeing with me on a point means Christmas miracles are possible. ;D

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So, in the interest of not upsetting the apple cart here, I will peace out now and leave you folks to your own club. I can post trip reports on splitboard. Com without creating a firestorm.

I am sorry it has come to this Snowolf.  Since moving south from Bellingham I have found myself touring solo quite often.  I would prefer not to, but most of the peop...

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had you done the ski cut you might also be dead.

I realize that I am not going to change your belief system about pits and ski cuts. But digging in to a certain belief hardly cast the image of being open to as much information as possible. Maybe, quite possibly, if there are so many experienced BC travelers that hold the contention that ski cuts are a good idea,...

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had you done the ski cut you might also be dead.

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BTW Happy Holidays to all!
Not all science is exact and perfect. I get what you are saying about utilizing as much info as possible. I can't tell you the amount of geophysical projects I worked that were cut and dry science according to the engineers and ended up being a cluster of additional costs due to broken science.