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Sept 26, 2010, Mt Hood South

That really is a remarkable picture.

9/28/10 1:49pm

stoudema

Thanks for the report. October's coming quickly, and Hood's likely where I'll be heading.....

9/28/10 1:06pm

~Link~

Great capture! Looking to head that'a way soon...

9/28/10 7:23am

Joedabaker

Can't get that picture out of my mind.
Almost firn spiegel-ish
Nice, Nice, Nice

9/28/10 3:17am

skier8484

author=alecapone link=topic=17481.msg73903#msg73903 date=1285688602]
Which way did you exit?

Went back down the trail this time. Grouse is more or less melted out; definitely not worth the bushwack anymore.

9/28/10 2:25am

Salal

Thanks Ale...can't wait to return

9/28/10 2:13am

Scotsman

author=alecapone link=topic=17493.msg73901#msg73901 date=1285688211]
Only mine, YMMV. ;)

Congratulations Alecapone. I feeling motivated by your report.
I think Im going to start my new streak real soon.

9/28/10 1:46am

Marcus

I'll take my cues from you, since I last skied in July

9/28/10 12:46am

alecapone

excellant!!!

Which way did you exit?

9/28/10 12:43am

alecapone

Only mine, YMMV. ;)

9/28/10 12:36am

Marcus

Okay, we'll make it official. New ski season has started ;)

9/28/10 12:29am

coyote

Sept 26, 2010, Mt Hood South

Beautiful turns!!!

9/27/10 10:51am

GregLange

Great to hear. I've also climbed a similar route in early September many years back. Keep that streak alive!

9/27/10 4:03am

Joedabaker

author=Jason_H. link=topic=17483.msg73839#msg73839 date=1285532932]
Great skiing...loved getting turns yesterday in the sun.

When you put it that way it sounds like fun!

9/27/10 2:56am

glenn_b

September 26, 2010, Bagley Lakes Postage Stamp

My things found and being mailed to me by the Park Service! I'm Uberaugaed.

9/27/10 1:45am

Marcus

The things we do. Love it Greg.

9/27/10 12:31am

ron j

September 26, 2010, Bagley Lakes Postage Stamp

Nice.

9/27/10 12:25am

andyski

author=airpoppoff link=topic=17483.msg73850#msg73850 date=1285561664]
Met alot of nice TAY'ers, It's pretty nice when they go down the trail in front of you and fend off all the people asking if we actually ski'd :)

You're welcome. ;D Me and the other guy you two where talking to at Pebble Creek checked off every box discussed: "did you ski?" "where did you ski?" "is there skiing...

9/26/10 11:58pm

chmnyboy

I was perfectly fine with drinking my way through the weekend until I read this.

9/26/10 1:39pm

airpoppoff

author=freightrainer link=topic=17483.msg73845#msg73845 date=1285554299]
Lots of running shoes, gym shorts and loafers on the snow - as well as the straw hats and dresses.
Great day to be out there though.

I also spotted the same just hitting the snow...

It was a great first time for me and my bu...

9/26/10 1:27pm

skierlyles

Great day out! Good to see some old friends and meet a few new ones too. Always somebody from TAY to bump into up on the snowfield. Good to hear you holler Silas, too bad we missed you in the lot.

Here is a pic of Holly dropping a knee in celebration of the great snow conditions:

9/26/10 12:48pm

freightrainer

Peter and I skied down at about 2:00 after a really great PBJ on the bench at Muir. Peter promised smooth snow for this trip so I opted for my tele skis which I haven't been on for a long, long time. It was a good call though since the skiing was really nice - almost creamy. I would agree that the new stuff lower down did get sticky but the glacier wax with a pretty aggressive profile was the right call - skis were pretty fast top to bottom.
It was a little bit of a zoo on the trail b...

9/26/10 11:24am

glenn_b

I had a great time climbing up, yakking with all kinds of people. It got windy up high. Lent a shell, stocking caps and poly gloves to a young German Baptist couple, the girl hiking all the way up in her long cotton dress, bonnet and tennis shoes. They left them at the ranger station for me but some NPS employee thought she knew the owner and took them before I got there. Any ideas on who to contact to get them back? Shell is a yellowish Marmot PreCip jacket with bl...

9/26/10 8:57am

Jason_H.

Great skiing...loved getting turns yesterday in the sun.

9/26/10 5:28am

Gary_H

Nice Brian,
Sounds like I should have headed north from the Hood Canal Bridge instead of south yesterday morning. Heliotrope is a beautiful area and a fun ski.
I can't complain though, had a fun day climbing and skiing the Muir snowfield. Like you describe, it was windy, there was lots of company and some good skiing. What more can you ask for?

Gary

9/26/10 5:18am

Gary_H

author=andyski link=topic=17483.msg73827#msg73827 date=1285474445]
Much better than expected day up there. White snow was findable almost the whole way above Pebble, and the old stuff was pretty smooth down low. I started down at about 2:30, and by the time I got down to 8,300 feet or so, the new snow was a little sticky, but still fun. Windy, but not bad. Great day.

I will second that Andy. I was about an hour ahead of you skiing...

9/26/10 5:07am

AndyMartin

Sep3, 2010, Snoqualmie Patch

Yep - still good!

9/26/10 2:14am

Marcus

even if it's in your car or on a train (or with a fox or in the rain)

Someone is warming up their Dr. Seuss brain muscles.

I'll take the name change under consideration... :)

9/24/10 9:14am

Nate R

Sep3, 2010, Snoqualmie Patch

author=telemack link=topic=17388.msg73252#msg73252 date=1283621493]
So, if you only ski uphill, do you get a total of negative v.f. and still count it for a month?

Using that logic, wouldn't all our backcountry days result in total v.f. of zero? ???

Until the governing body that monitors feats of turns-all-year issues a position on what qualifies as a turn, or someone can produce some qualitative histor...

9/24/10 8:55am

Markeyz

September 21, 2010, Camp Muir

Things had locked up pretty well by the time I headed down from anvil rock around 3:30, making for loud and in the clouds turns. The bottom 1,200' or so was soft enough to carve, and the bottom 800' was below the clouds. Probably could have found better turns if I wasn't trying to stay so close to rocks or the boot pack. Oh well. Goodbye, summer skiing. Here's to fall and winter. Cold and nasty till spring suits me just fine.

9/23/10 10:02am

ron j

Nice first post.
Welcome.
I liked the video.

9/23/10 9:23am

JoshK

September 13, 2010, Camp Muir (our best September)

I hope there is some of that smooth new snow still around when I get back to the country this weekend - I would love some easy turns to try out the new skis. I think the high tourist days of summer have passed so my anti-social self can probably tolerate schMuir again. ;)

If the warm rain holds off, any speculation if it'll remain worthwhile for a few days?

Great pic of the wild man and the guy on his "mental skis"!

9/23/10 1:34am

FreeBird

Thanks Silas for your trip report. My wife and I went up the next day and enjoyed making smooth GS turns in September.
It was only our second time skiing in September but it was much better than the Paradise last year.

Here are a few video clips from the day...

http://contour.com/node/112194

http://contour.com/node/112196

9/23/10 1:19am

Teleskichica

September 21, 2010, Heliotrope Ridge

Must concur... really nice. And this guy next to Don was so impressed/jealous, he thought he'd make some turns, too. Poor dude. He seems to be missing his skis...

9/22/10 11:35pm

lrudholm

I spoke to a climber that was descending when we were heading up, he talked about a lot of water Monday night.

9/22/10 2:51pm

~Link~

Excellent day, almond-milk turns (I've recently made the switch from diary milk. Give it a chance, and you'll know what I'm describing) ;)

Sorry to have missed you, Silas. Keep in touch!

9/22/10 2:44pm

lrudholm

Nice Shirt.

9/22/10 2:41pm

Kenji

Wild man on Muir

9/22/10 1:45pm

Rusty Knees

Hey Silas - we heard you whooping before we saw you. Great day in the mountains, eh? Glad you and Kenji had a good day. We saw Amar in the PLot and hiked uphill with him.

Best September turns EVAR! 8) ( Except for last year's, maybe or the year before that!)

SkierLyles and Teleskichicka got up to about 9500 before turn around time. I hit about 8500 + and met some new friends. Great turns, and we wished we had time for anothe...

9/22/10 1:29pm

jimjar