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Nice work guys.  Watching you from our camp on Saturday, great timing and great conditions it seems.  Envious!

That vid is very good for non-edited, and fun in any event.  Also,  leaving the cam on during your short midrun break is a nice touch.  Actually, I think you're on to something here by shooting and posting a start to finish "one take" , unedited POV vid. 

Your vids (saw the ones from Nisqually chutes last week) are remarkably steady, given the activity.    Have you had a learning curve to get the shots right, composure etc. ?  The equ...

Nice work. Wow. Great spot , merely a dream for me. More on the feline tracking? Sightings?

Holy smokes, great use of the day! Such a nasty approach and a beautiful area, I'd love to see more pictures. Never been a fan of being followed by wildlife...

author=Greg Blaisdell link=topic=15516.msg64987#msg64987 date=1265692257]
From the trailhead, how long before conditions allow skinning?

On Saturday, we parked about 200 m below the trailhead at the snowpark sign (~3600 ft) and booted up Grouse Cr until ~4100ft where we started skinning. The timber between the outhouse and where it opens up along Grouse Creek is devoid of snow. The first part along Grouse Creek wasn't worth s...

No kidding!  Great vid!

Wow.That video looks like heaven.

exciting! tell us more!More pictures!

1. how is the dosewalips washout in this weather? did you carry your skis and bike in the same trip? was the water high?

2. you carried skis ?thousand feet? up the tree roots - the "trail" is challenging when the ground is dry, was there a frozen waterfall?

3. how close did you get to mount constance?

4. did you get a picture of Pete Puma?

Wow,
That's a big day, excellent effort and great photos.

Very nice.  It's nice to see the neglected Olympics get some credit.  That hike up the Constance trail must have been a real bitch with skis on your back. 

A couple of questions regarding the route.  How long did it take you to reach the lake?  Where did you first encounter solid snow?  What's the condition of the Dose road beyond the gate?

Thanks for the TR and any info yo can provide.

traveling south of the 49th parallel for turns. . .what gives?  ;)

Oh boy... I have a great image to sum up Pioneer Creek.  We skinned up via 8-mile lake a couple of weeks ago, and found ourselves in deep deep powder with amazingly little visibility.  I will never ski out Pioneer creek again.  However, a friend nicely provided his photos from a lovely clear day high on Cashmere.  That chute into the south bowl is really calling my name!

I'm very curious though what the doctor creek descent looks like.  It would dump you...

author=TobyT link=topic=15516.msg64888#msg64888 date=1265581987]
... heading up there tomorrow.

What is the report from today? I am thinking an early morning trip if conditions are still good. Thanks.

author=A&K link=topic=15523.msg64948#msg64948 date=1265669641]
Hey that is our friend and his dog's lunch sack. He would love to get it back if someone could drop it by the Alp patrol or just leave it there.

We got to the bottom of the coulior and realized it was still hanging on the tree. We were excited to see it made it onto TAY.

Thanks!

Keegan...? :)
That's pretty funny because we spe...

Sick, I love the Crystal Lakes Basin area.

Hey that is our friend and his dog's lunch sack. He would love to get it back if someone could drop it by the Alp patrol or just leave it there.

We got to the bottom of the coulior and realized it was still hanging on the tree. We were excited to see it made it onto TAY.

Thanks!

Wow! where did all that snow come from.  Maybe it blew off Rainier and ended up at Crystal.  We toured down to Crystal Lakes from Three Way a couple of weeks ago in new snow on crust.  Thats a great area.  Good choice. 

Bill,

If you are interested in how to make interesting anchors and leave nothing or little behind, check out some of the stuff being done in canyoneering.  While many of their tricks won't apply, they do have some neat retrievable anchors systems and knots that I have tried.  As with anything, they work well - when done properly.

http://www.canyoneering.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1558&highlight=macrame\

http://www.canyonwiki.com/wiki/index.php/Advanced_...

We were up there as well, and passed you fairly early on the skin track Skiied down union creek from the shoulder in nice snow, then skinned up to point 6674 and skied the bowl with very nice snow down to about 5800ft, back up to the high point and down the glade to the parking lot with lots of crust on that face.  Hope your guy with the alpine binders was alright.

Scottsman, PNWBrit, Skierlyles, Dave, Sam, and I were also enjoying the pea soup in the Crystal slackcountry that day. We found better snow and visibility in the Crystal Lakes area than the Morse Creek drainage. Trailbreaking was a pain but having a group of 6 helped. Still fun turns despite the vertigo effect.

Into the abyss

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Also, anyone know what's in the bag hanging in the tree by the couloir entrance?

We wondered the same...

nice report

Nice job...I guess you can add "sistashredda" to your list of monikers.  BTW, I broke the chain on my mtb on a climbing trip up there a few years back.

didn't realize we had golden eagles on the west side.

SICK!!! I wonder what today and this week holds in the way of weather up there... might try and get up there soon too....