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Brenda - lookin' good! Have you been on TTips yet?  8)

did you approach via Hyak and cross country trails?  I tried this tour last year and it was quite miserable. 

@ Acarey - backcountry, back country, BC it's all the same to me :)  I posted at 230am after skiing all day, spellling/grammar errors are forgiven in those cases ;)


@ Rusty Knees -  Nicely done.  We considered the Tatoosh, but based on the NWAC forecast we wanted to stick to skiing a Southern aspect in the safety of the glades.  Seeing how stable the snowpack was, the slightly more open terrain in the Tatoosh I am sure was pretty wild!  We also skie...

author=rockme2 link=topic=18116.msg76776#msg76776 date=1290914426]
Are you kidding? I skied that day from the main parking lot at Alpental Resort (the furthest access rd is still closed), up to Source Lake and the bench at 4500' below Chair Peak's ridge. There are rocks everywhere and the resort was still closed with brush alder showing on all runs. Get it right.

No need to be a hater. Gun Mount is at but about 5K and a...

I walked by just as the security folks got your car open, cool. Coming back from Chair Peak Basin ("CPB"???) with my golden lab Lucy. We followed the skin/snowshoe track out to Source and then up to the top of the Apron. Lucy started to struggle with the unconsolidated snow there so it was time to turn around.

Experienced the same conditions; pretty low snow, lots of rollers and some decent holes (landed in a four foot one 2/3 the way down). Had to too go even slower and mor...

Nice Viddy, Chris.
Thanks for posting.

author=cchapin link=topic=18173.msg76773#msg76773 date=1290910297]

aside from 4 letter words, anyone have a good slang for these types?  totally trashed the skin track.

Homo Postholus, the missing link.

Just to add to the Alpental reports... friends had skied Lower I below the cliffs on the 20th and reported deep blower conditions (mixed with rock and foliage.) I was skeptical but went up there Sunday the 21st and I used the skin track from the party who went up upper Nash on the 20th and posted a TR. It was hard to follow as there was new snow but it was still very helpful.  Broke my own rule “don’t tour past good snow” by leaving Nash and touring out to Piss Pass--getting there from Nash...

author=cchapin link=topic=18173.msg76773#msg76773 date=1290910297]
aside from 4 letter words, anyone have a good slang for these types?  totally trashed the skin track

Booting in the skin track?????.... I usually call them morons!

author=arcticcat2 link=topic=18116.msg76614#msg76614 date=1290660303]
Made it to gun mount, and The snow was cracking 12" long and 12" deep from the tip of my ski as I skinned.  One the way down was really good powder skiing didn't hit any rocks or sticks.

Are you kidding? I skied that day from the main parking lot at Alpental Resort (the furthest access rd is still closed), up to Source Lake and the bench at 4500&#...

Great to meet fun folk! Heading higher tomorrow, methinks. The morning light was sublime.

Aint no-one waxin anymore?  Sheeit.

You're right Marcus, I was skijoring my "B" team in that photo.  They are more gentle pullers so I can safely go with three of them.  The "A" team are two stronger and faster dogs, resulting in a wilder ride.  I usually take the "A" team out first to break trail and then have a more mellow ride with these three.

author=Randy link=topic=18128.msg76723#msg76723 date=1290840546]
The WSDOT report early this AM said something about freezing rain at Snoqualmie -- sounds like that didn't actually happen ?

There were no signs of freezing rain at the pass... probably DOT was talking about exit 47 to about a 1/2 mile before exit 51...  there was supposedly freezing rain there "west of the summit" last night.

:) Everybody loves to see somebody wipe out in powder.  At least I do, makes me feel better about my own spills ;)

I skied Central for the first time today, while on a boot-try-on expedition.  Nice skin track up Triple 60, and good cut-up heavy pow there and on Parachute.  Snoqualmie sure is nice when it's cold. 

720p Video: http://www.theoakleyfamily.net/Stevens-Pass-2010-11-26/720p.html

Not sure what the problem is arcticcat2, but that's not really okay here.  Post removed.

Good to see the mountain with so much snow.
Just a small point..... "friends" edit out other" friends" falls before going public. ;) ;D

Nice, Susan!  I hit the Cowen Park Headwall down into Ravenna first thing Monday morning, getting in about 1-1/2 turns.  Let's hope for more in-city skiing with La Nina.

Great thread on snow quality. I skied Ski Acres on Tuesday with my son in the morning and it was as light and dry as I think we ever get in the PNW. Yet I could still control my speed through snow resistance. I concur that our snow tends to consolidate quickly even with persistent cool temps, as we experienced for a few days this week.

I caught one of those Utah days that everyone talks about two years ago on a business trip. Sunny day with 2 feet of new that had fallen 2 days earlier...

author=arcticcat2 link=topic=18126.msg76662#msg76662 date=1290750584]
My daughter is 2 years old and she has been skiing in the backpack since she was 6 weeks

My apologies; wrong articcat  ::)

I'll bet that 2 year old has a ball skiing with you.