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You can resize them with any photo editing software. IrfanView is a good one and it's free.
You can also put them on Picasa or Flickr and just link them using the IMG tag.
If you'd like to add a few, feel free to send them to my email address and I'll take care of it for you.
Nice TR, by the way! Thanks for putting it up.
You can also put them on Picasa or Flickr and just link them using the IMG tag.
If you'd like to add a few, feel free to send them to my email address and I'll take care of it for you.
Nice TR, by the way! Thanks for putting it up.
Thanks guys, on such a gorgeous day and such a beautiful place, taking good pictures is as easy as it gets. Now naming the peaks, that took some time, was fun too. Just had to put it on my list of things to do, then it feels like I'm being productive when I cross it off.
We were thinking of heading out that way in a couple of weeks - what did the north sides look like?
Sadly Emma, the beer is not a priority here, it is all about the local wine, cheeses and sausages which are almost as good as yours.
The snow coverage is a little below average with many areas blown out but Toby has guided us into some great stashes.
The snow coverage is a little below average with many areas blown out but Toby has guided us into some great stashes.
I'm fairly certain it was almost due east, but didn't take the compass out to check for sure. We were on top of Eagle Point and I think those are the north and south brothers. I'd like to ski the south brother, so I took that shot, but the north brother looks doable too.
Took the photo with a 300x Nikon lens. Thx,
Took the photo with a 300x Nikon lens. Thx,
not really. lots of hand pits, that showed the top layer of snow (0-8") was wind deposited/scoured and was typically light and non-cohesive. Up near the summit ridge, there was some small pockets of reactive wind slab that were sliding on the hard layer.
sorry, i didn't do any crystal id or full pits. The ice layer (1F+) was about 2" thick at most hand pits with a 4F layer below.
sorry, i didn't do any crystal id or full pits. The ice layer (1F+) was about 2" thick at most hand pits with a 4F layer below.
Hi John Morrow!
It was only my second time ever on a crosscountry ski course. I did not understand what you were talking about as it took me five plus hours to finish, and I expected it to be sloppy.
It was only my second time ever on a crosscountry ski course. I did not understand what you were talking about as it took me five plus hours to finish, and I expected it to be sloppy.
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The most hazardous part of the entire route... ...had both the skate lane and track set severely chopped up by the snowmobiles by 10:30 AM. I objectively and honestly b...
Gorgeous photos! Thanks for sharing.
Nice trip. Did you happen to check the bond to that crust?
but what about the beer steve, is it as good as yours ??
Nice pictures. I'm curious about the first picture. What direction are we looking? Looking S. would be the Baileys/ Olympus, looking east would be the Needles/Greywolf, looking west would be mt Angeles and Appelton pass and looking N. would be the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Interesting perspective.
Here's a link to a little video (slideshow & video clips) from our trip.
Enjoy;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_8Ur-TGbsY
Enjoy;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_8Ur-TGbsY
Once again, epic. Your photographs have been gracing my desktop at work. ;D
i'm going to skip the jealousy and go right to the "this is not fair" argument.
Nice! How's the snowpack? I'll be there doing the Haute Route in a few weeks.
Blizzard was BIG and rapidly loaded the snowpack with new weight. 3 feet in the driveway ...
Resort day ;D
Resort day ;D
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It IS a forest service road and they have as much right to be there as we do, they use it much more than we do too. they are also the ones putting up the big bucks to keep those snowparks open.
All the snowmachiners I saw stayed right on the uphill and slowed down when they passed me. They dont realize the smelly and loud as a bad thing - they like that stuff anyway.
Besid...
Nice job bramy...your friend "matt"...
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Great video! The section with both of you skiing together is the best.
I'll second that! The Red Hot Chili Peppers are a great audio match to video. Way to get it done Bram.
Gary
That same helicopter was tooling around the summit of Shuksan on Sat. Rubbernecking tourists is my guess.
I used a ContourHD 1080p helm cam. The wide angle is the 135 wide angle lens on it, great for this kind of stuff. It definitely does the big fish distortion on anything close up.
It was a interesting mix on Saturday corn on the south side and unbeliveably late afternoon powder down sunbeam drainage.
Nice work guys. I too enjoyed the video. I like the wide angle for that setting. Say, what kind of helmet cam?
Great video! The section with both of you skiing together is the best.
I think that if you want to ski the finger in the winter, you are best off going up via Gib ledges or the Igraham Direct (if it's filled in enough). We found pretty rotten snow conditions for the first thousand feet below the freezing level when we did it May of last year. I'm pretty sure that you need to wait until April/May with a lot of sunshine to be able to boot up the FF like you want to. It would sure be a hell of a challenging skin up given how consistently st...
Yes, but what was up with this helicopter?
http://picasaweb.google.com/vanluvdr/MtBakerMarch62010#5446098903166827746
He didn't land on the summit, at least from what we could tell. Nice enough to wave at us though! I was very glad he did not drop some high paying clientel on the summit with a snowboard, that would have definitely angered the gods of skinning.
http://picasaweb.google.com/vanluvdr/MtBakerMarch62010#5446098903166827746
He didn't land on the summit, at least from what we could tell. Nice enough to wave at us though! I was very glad he did not drop some high paying clientel on the summit with a snowboard, that would have definitely angered the gods of skinning.
Wanna try again this wk-end? DC rt.
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Pretty sure from the pics that the military aircraft is an EA-6B out of NAS Whidbey Island... A-4 is a Skyhawk, which according to Wikipedia was phased out of the USMC in '98 and the USN in '03. From the looks of things, I should've gone back to Baker this weekend rather than taking a stab at Rainier... Well done to everyone who made the summit, looks like it was superb.
sweeet!!! seriously ... and you photos are awesome!!!
nice report, thanks for all the details. that is very helpful.
We were below and climber's left of the chute a few hundred feet, with the obvious debris paths to our right; agreed that on the cleaver as you suggest would probably have been a better choice.
Nice! A very powdery north side of Tincan was the very first thing Pete and I skied on a two week Alaska trip back in 2007. It was a sweet introduction to Chugach skiing! Thanks for the memories! :)
Turning 'round when you're tired and it's getting late is a good plan.
Did you camp immediately at the base of the Finger? We tried that last May and had a sizeable rock visit us inside the tent. The ranger-advised camp at the 9200 foot level on the cleaver below the Turtle has significantly less hazard from above.
Looks like a beautiful day out!
Did you camp immediately at the base of the Finger? We tried that last May and had a sizeable rock visit us inside the tent. The ranger-advised camp at the 9200 foot level on the cleaver below the Turtle has significantly less hazard from above.
Looks like a beautiful day out!
Nice TR, thanks for the update, been wondering about that trip.
Oyvind, What a great day up there! Excellent trip planning. This has been an outstanding winter! Thanks for the photos. More photos here:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=lf#!/album.php?aid=50412&id=1070081668
I'll post some more on TAY tonite.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=lf#!/album.php?aid=50412&id=1070081668
I'll post some more on TAY tonite.
Cool. I was wondering what Kaleetan was like. I hiked up Granite on Friday and the upper part of Kaleetan didn't look great from a distance.
Glad to seem some AK vets out there. March is so far bringing the major stoke. Blizzard Friday dropped 34" up high and knee deep in my driveway (Girdwood). Another blizzard today expecting to drop 2'+. Reports out of Valdez are the deepest conditions in years. Stoke is on!
Yo Bram, loved the video and how the tune was synced to it. It was good meeting you up top, (I was the guy in the black puffy when the A-4 was flying around). Anyhoo, I'm glad to see the snow looked excellent on that side. On the Easton we had nice cream all the way down to almost 3,000 feet. Unbelievably how consistent it was!
Always wanted to ski there.
Thanks for the info, probably awesome spring corn on those slopes.
Thanks for the info, probably awesome spring corn on those slopes.
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Wow! What a find...must check out...
What's the leaving- ski- area- boundary while riding the lifts?
The daily avy report is posted next to the ticket window. The ski patrol folks were friendly and provided "the beta". They have the usual warning sign about leaving the ski area boundary and being responsible for the re...
Less than one week later, one of the slopes i had thought fairly stable (steepish NW with little sun affect), bowl #3, broke shoulder to shoulder - well over a 1/4 mile and went to the bottom. jeez.
Pretty much screwed the pooch on camera settings so don't have a good visual, but from two miles away the crown looked to be 6+ feet. We stayed inbounds.
Pretty much screwed the pooch on camera settings so don't have a good visual, but from two miles away the crown looked to be 6+ feet. We stayed inbounds.
It IS a forest service road and they have as much right to be there as we do, they use it much more than we do too. they are also the ones putting up the big bucks to keep those snowparks open.
All the snowmachiners I saw stayed right on the uphill and slowed down when they passed me. They dont realize the smelly and loud as a bad thing - they like that stuff anyway.
Besides, the snowmachine folks werent out that early, and the hog loppet organizers advised you that...
All the snowmachiners I saw stayed right on the uphill and slowed down when they passed me. They dont realize the smelly and loud as a bad thing - they like that stuff anyway.
Besides, the snowmachine folks werent out that early, and the hog loppet organizers advised you that...
Thanks for the skin tracks. And thanks for the photos...I didn't bring a camera. So I guess I'm a skin track and a photo poacher. Woohoo.
When I followed your skin track on Sunday, I kept expecting to see your tent somewhere. Didn't realize that you camped 500 feet from my bivy site. I kept thinking that you went a really long way under moonlight. Duh. In retrospect, I thinking camping at the snout of the white chuck would have been best. Close enough to make a summit b...
When I followed your skin track on Sunday, I kept expecting to see your tent somewhere. Didn't realize that you camped 500 feet from my bivy site. I kept thinking that you went a really long way under moonlight. Duh. In retrospect, I thinking camping at the snout of the white chuck would have been best. Close enough to make a summit b...