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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.
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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...
Beautiful -- nice work John and company.
Thanks again, John, for putting this together. A great trip with a delightful group!
You guys laid down some nice tracks from our vantage point atop Assassin Spire! What a day to be out.
Wow, that looks awesome. Congrats on bagging that in such good condition.
Ahh, you must have been the folks that followed our skin tracks up. Was curious what you'd think of things over there.
Wow! What a find...must check out...
What's the leaving- ski- area- boundary while riding the lifts?
What's the leaving- ski- area- boundary while riding the lifts?
Thanks for the tr and pics...sounds like a great alternative!!!!!!!
psyched to see you guys are having good times in jhole!
The "I am so envious that you tele" sticker?
Love that one...
Love that one...
I'm staying home on the weekends now, doing chores--firewood, etc. and skiing during the week. It is a popular time of year. Everything get so trashed (and crowded in the first two miles).
A tele specific/appropriate sticker should be seen soon on mine and Chmnyboy's skis ;)
Helluva way to end the trip. One of the finest days I've ever had in the BC. Perfect snow all day, including the bonus south facing powder late in the day back to the car.
The snow in the forecast for the PNW for next week should ease the pain of transitioning from the whiteroom to the workroom.
The snow in the forecast for the PNW for next week should ease the pain of transitioning from the whiteroom to the workroom.
Nisqually Chutes got hammered today--I think I saw moguls forming. People headed up to Camp Hazard, people skiing lower Fuhrer's Finger. I went for solitude to Cowlitz Rocks--pretty good skiing. Minor sluff management on baked slopes in the afternoon.
Pretty heavy stuff in the Chute, some cornices failing, most sluffing was just a few inches. Turns were great with temps in the low 20s the night before consolidating the old snow and making a strong crust and 1 inch of new from each of the preceding two days.