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In additional news today, Amar Andalkar will start a new website called SAY. Squak All Year.
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IS it standard protocol now to just post the allotted 3 thumbnail pics in full size, as long as I say I tried?
No... but protocol is somewhat relaxed while I'm rethinking the photo policy.
Holy Crap! That looks fun! Good pictures and write up. Thanks for the inspiration.
Lisa, you forgot to mention the cheeseburgers.
Nice write up. It was great finally getting out with you, and Jake as well. Both of you where very fun partners. Impressed with what you two where doing in your boots. Have to do it again sometime.
IS it standard protocol now to just post the allotted 3 thumbnail pics in full size, as long as I say I tried?
Lisa near the highpoint
Nice write up. It was great finally getting out with you, and Jake as well. Both of you where very fun partners. Impressed with what you two where doing in your boots. Have to do it again sometime.
IS it standard protocol now to just post the allotted 3 thumbnail pics in full size, as long as I say I tried?
Lisa near the highpoint
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What an AWESOME day!!! Can't stress enough how well Merk pulls these trips together.
RecycleBob, welcome aboard with post #1!!! Good to have you with us during these fine summer turns.
CJ, I think your shorts are bad-ass! And the headband was a nice touch as well...
What an AWESOME day!!! Can't stress enough how well Merk pulls these trips together.
Ha, graceful my ass!
That was a steep patch of mountain. If anyone repeats it, my yellow axe is lying around somewhere mid-slope. I know a bit more about trying to self arrest with a board strapped on: I think you've got to lift it up at your knees, otherwise you flip as it catches....
I'm also pleased I didn't leash the axe or I think I may been hit by it repeatedly as I flipped...
Great day out. Excellent company Lisa & Ale Capone, you guys knock...
That was a steep patch of mountain. If anyone repeats it, my yellow axe is lying around somewhere mid-slope. I know a bit more about trying to self arrest with a board strapped on: I think you've got to lift it up at your knees, otherwise you flip as it catches....
I'm also pleased I didn't leash the axe or I think I may been hit by it repeatedly as I flipped...
Great day out. Excellent company Lisa & Ale Capone, you guys knock...
Amar,
Thanks for the summit info on the lower mountain goods. I was the second person of the two you saw on the summit. Those turns were absolutely amazing ! Cheers,
t
Thanks for the summit info on the lower mountain goods. I was the second person of the two you saw on the summit. Those turns were absolutely amazing ! Cheers,
t
Thanks for posting this, Don. We wondered whose fresh tracks those were that we crossed on our descent...
Indeed, a "Paradise" kind of day! Only our 5 (Lara Skis, Chuck R., Eveline, son Vonya, and myself) in the valley. We took Amar's suggestion and baked ourselves up to Muir. The moonfield moguls were tough on the tired hot legs on the way down to Anvil, but boy was the corn buttered! Then, all the way back down to the Paradise Glacier "End Maintained Trail"...
Indeed, a "Paradise" kind of day! Only our 5 (Lara Skis, Chuck R., Eveline, son Vonya, and myself) in the valley. We took Amar's suggestion and baked ourselves up to Muir. The moonfield moguls were tough on the tired hot legs on the way down to Anvil, but boy was the corn buttered! Then, all the way back down to the Paradise Glacier "End Maintained Trail"...
Hey Amar
If you give me some $$$$$ I will paint you your very own parking spot at the trail head.
I'm sure a few people can vouch for my painting skills.
If you give me some $$$$$ I will paint you your very own parking spot at the trail head.
I'm sure a few people can vouch for my painting skills.
I thought my wife gave me a lot of crap for those orange shorts! LOL
Great trip!
Great trip!
Yep, the rock is where the blue dots ascent in the first photo, not a good close up of it.
Not everything goes somewhere but down will do for me. ;)
Not everything goes somewhere but down will do for me. ;)
I woulda joined...that variation looks fun...Where was your scramble? Up through that hour-glass section after end running that lower crevasse field?
Thanks Dave, yes my heart was pumping hard alright as well as some words of disdain in the moments of uncertainty and fear on the dumb wet and sandy rock scramble. We were thinking we would see you two on Saturday morning, it would have been fun to have you guys along on something other than the Squak.
Like the form in that last pic...DAMN, that looks like a fun variation compared to the boring ol' Squaaaaaaaaaak. Way to mix it up with a little technical climb/variation to get the heart pumpin'!
I thought those were knuckle-dragging trousers.
I dunno... I kinda dig CJ's long orange shorts. mad style!!
Nice photos, Merk! The first one totally captures the WA TAY feel.
Zealots in shorts
On Zealots
Beauty day
Grins
Zealots in shorts
On Zealots
Beauty day
Grins
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Sweet!
Awesome skies on friday night, Eh?
The shooting stars were good; the sweet, sweet August turns were better ;)
- still gettin some turns down here on Lassen. the summer-trail that attains the ridge (half-way) has a good piece of snow. it's about 400 vert w/ a good, low-angle runout.
* it's quite a coincidence, that Rainier and Lassen are the active volcanoes in the U.S.
* it's quite a coincidence, that Rainier and Lassen are the active volcanoes in the U.S.
We were ahead of you; we watched you skin up past us while we ate and relaxed. We were maybe 100 vf below you on the same rock outcropping. I think I have a few photos of ya'll climbing, although we were long gone before you headed back down.
Beautiful day up there. You passed my wife, son and I on the ridgeline below the Ruth Glacier on your way out. We weren't skiing but we admired your tracks.
Wow, nice mid-August coverage. It is great when you can ski all the way from Ptarmigan around the NW of CP in a long descending traverse to the base of the long runs which look like they could still be 700+'. There is usually some fun finger-chasing with the sounds of a stream below the snow, how far do you push it?
Perfect pictures and I hope some lasts until September
Did you mean August 13? Or are you up even later than I am? ;)
Did you mean August 13? Or are you up even later than I am? ;)
Nice Brian,
Wish we were joining you guys this weekend, have fun! :D
Gary and Jan
Wish we were joining you guys this weekend, have fun! :D
Gary and Jan
Yeah, I skied it yesterday and was blown away by how good it was. Compared to Amar's photos, the summit dome was smoother; there was much more exposed rock at the top of the Roman Wall; the lower glacier was more suncupped but softened enough that it hardly mattered. And the wildflowers along the moraine are gorgeous!
a bunch of the goats actually just took off down that gravel slope just like it was nothing,, waited for the rock slide but they didn't even upset the gravel!! it looked pretty smooth out by the pinnacle but it seems to always sock in on me the last few times i've wanted to go out that way... rode from ptarmigan corner back towards huntoon pt.
Cool goats---I like the daredevil/showoff one on the steep slope, sticking his neck out without worrying about whether another goat will analyze the morality of it. ::)
Any specifics on your actual ski locations, or opinions on where will be good there over
Labor Day?
Any specifics on your actual ski locations, or opinions on where will be good there over
Labor Day?
As usual, Turns All Year gives me the best information available for August hikes around the Paradise Glacier.
Thanks, Amar. The pics from your 8-11 trip to Muir are particularly useful (I'm heading up the 'back way' to Anvil Rock) and your descriptions of conditions just get better and better.
David aka Scrooge, from www.nwhikers.net
Thanks, Amar. The pics from your 8-11 trip to Muir are particularly useful (I'm heading up the 'back way' to Anvil Rock) and your descriptions of conditions just get better and better.
David aka Scrooge, from www.nwhikers.net
Thanks for the update! From the first pic it looks like the McClure route is broken up.
Nice work again! The shot of the "scoot" across the snowbridge... spooky, though at least it was over quickly.
In Tahoe, one can drive, even with a Subaru most years, to the bottom of a nice patch that usually lasts all summer. There are years that the road gets to rutted to drive anything but a 4WD truck on, and in the past the patch has melted out by late September due to very lean winters.
No real need for hiking in Tahoe to get to your summer turns. This patch is not large, but by Tahoe summer standards it is quite skiable. In the summer, more often than not, there is us...
No real need for hiking in Tahoe to get to your summer turns. This patch is not large, but by Tahoe summer standards it is quite skiable. In the summer, more often than not, there is us...
I used the Go Pro HD helmet cam and the Canon powershot SD 780 IS digital elph for hand held
footage.
footage.
Beautiful TR. I'm don't really like to ski in August, but these photos make it look awfully good.
I'm not surprised to see Ale_Capone on skis ... he skis really well with his splitboard in tour mode. You should have seen him on the east face of Mt. Niagara earlier this year.
I'm not surprised to see Ale_Capone on skis ... he skis really well with his splitboard in tour mode. You should have seen him on the east face of Mt. Niagara earlier this year.
looks good. better than the other Mt Rose. I wonder 'bout the Desolation W. Peaks this yr. (above the lake)
There's a problem with your skis though... the heels seem to be attached or something... it's weird. Must be broken. ;)
Tooo funny!
Just becasue I had the plastic boots and two planks and all, I wouldn't be so fast to call it skiing.
I still have kyle's board. read; kyle is an awesome guy. Among other things, he let me use his split board since may. I owe him big!
I just forgot the bindings at home.
Just becasue I had the plastic boots and two planks and all, I wouldn't be so fast to call it skiing.
I still have kyle's board. read; kyle is an awesome guy. Among other things, he let me use his split board since may. I owe him big!
I just forgot the bindings at home.
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Snow amounts were stunning to me. I have done this trip as a first week August trip a good number of years and never have I seen this much snow.
Agreed.
Thanks for the delayed TR. Maybe I'll get up there before school starts.
Still good for a while?
Still good for a while?
Kam, I'm seeing a pattern develop here with your route selection and ski objectives. I kind of remember seeing you take Silas on a stream crossing adventure with rapping down some sun cups at Tioga Pass. Now, you took Ben and Gabe through the jungle for 150vf run.
;D
;D
Wow! Scott on sticks ??? At least the skis were wide enough to roughly resemble a snowboard. Why the change Ale? Did Kyle finally comfiscate his snowboard?
Yeah, I Squaked w/ Scott. It was a great day to be up there. Thanks for including me, we had a fun group. It was good to meet Allen and to ski with Jeff and Sam again. Such a nice community of folks!
How versatile is this capone guy? I like to think that it is fate's way of telling him that perhaps he has, with this most recent birthday, grown out of snowboarding. Congratulations! ;)
Nice write up Amar, thanks. The photo of the crux crevasse looks wider than i...
How versatile is this capone guy? I like to think that it is fate's way of telling him that perhaps he has, with this most recent birthday, grown out of snowboarding. Congratulations! ;)
Nice write up Amar, thanks. The photo of the crux crevasse looks wider than i...
What kind of helmet cam were you using? I love the "ski traverse" shot panning R-->L, showing the looong path to the summit.
Thanks guys....
It was good to see a skier out there.....
It was good to see a skier out there.....
Low-hanging adventure, cool.
Makes the PNW this summer feel even phatter!
Makes the PNW this summer feel even phatter!