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Freebird, nice meeting you two and thanks again for breaking trail for us geezers. Send me a PM with your e-mail address and I'll send you the pictures we took of you guys.

2/3/10 5:38am

Andrew Carey

January 30-Feruary1, Mt. Rainier, Steven's Ridge

Nice videos!

2/3/10 5:28am

Andrew Carey

nice trip & photos!

2/3/10 5:07am

alecapone

feb 2, 2010, Colchuck glacier

Or I need a job... ;)

We skinned the 4 firm miles of road to the TH in about 1.5 hours. The ski down went very good with soft daytime snow. Walked the uphill part near the 8 mile th.

2/3/10 4:58am

andyrew

feb 2, 2010, Colchuck glacier

Did you slog the road, or sled up it? The icicle road is open to Bridge Creek, right? Looks like a solid day's effort.

2/3/10 4:36am

cjm720

Sweet pics!

2/3/10 4:00am

alecapone

January 30, 2010, Peak 7550, Icicle

Very nice! Way to get some.

Thanks for the report.

2/3/10 1:16am

alecapone

Very nice!! I take it Kyle and partner never caught up with you?

Even though we waxed heavily at the car, we had the same sticky issues as you.

2/3/10 1:11am

alecapone

That was one fun trip, and one scary snowman.

There was one small section near the top of asguard that gave us a taste of exposure...

Stugie took his chances doing some ice moves.

Brad and I stuck to stone.

2/3/10 1:03am

FreeBird

feb 2, 2010, Colchuck glacier

Thanks for turning around a picking us up.
The chute skied real nice.

Here are some pics from the day...

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=14378&id=100000218445455&l=fa4ad436cf

And some video...

http://www.vholdr.com/node/65858
http://www.vholdr.com/node/65830

2/3/10 12:46am

Marcus

Awesome -- I'd say that's a good choice over Jim Hill. Unless you skied Jim on Monday, in which case I need more free time. :)

2/3/10 12:38am

Andrew Carey

Big slide from top to bottom in the Nisqually Chute and a big one off the upper right glacier. Not sure when the chute slid, picked up a couple who had just skied it it and ferried them back to Paradise. Two other tracks down the chute.

2/3/10 12:18am

Stugie

Thanks for the conditions update, hooray for no moguls!

I watched the mens and womens mogul world cup championship the other day - it just looked painful. Why torture yourself when you can ski pow? ;)

2/2/10 11:58pm

Salal

Jan 31, 2010, Pickhandle Basin

Looks like you all found some good conditions this past weekend. I hate when snowmen taunt me on the skin up.

2/2/10 2:52pm

alpymarr

Thanks to everyone invloved in the Durkin 11! Hopefully we can all get out again soon together. Conditions were good for the weather as of late, group made it even more enjoyable. Thanks again!!

2/2/10 2:41pm

RevBowers

We must have followed you folks, reaching the entrance around noon.
What a magical place to ski that is.
The Phantom ski was horrific. Icy, open creeks, holes etc.
Here's to the Slot!

2/2/10 2:40pm

Marcus

Jan 31, 2010, Yodelin

Way to pack in the vertical. That SAR group was Snohomish County SAR's winter training... got to watch a slideshow of the fun on Monday. Coneheads is pretty accurate for their igloos.

2/2/10 2:32pm

Stugie

Jan 31, 2010, Cayoosh on 99

No ropes necessary. Dropped straight from the ridgeline high on DT's SE side, down the W bowl and straight down the skiers left side of Aasgard.

Up high Brad was scouting around for the entrance to Triple C...any beta on that?

2/2/10 2:27pm

Stugie

Sweet trip, great pics.

Are we gonna see a tr of you dropping that sick looking line in the backdrop of that third pic?

2/2/10 2:22pm

Stugie

author=silaswild link=topic=15430.msg64518#msg64518 date=1265046663]
Knee tweaking elephant snot is a new term to me, I will have to add it to my snow conditions reporting terminology.

Ditto, but man, that term is PERFECT. I envisioned the ugliness of it completely. :)

2/2/10 2:18pm

haggis

February 2, 2010, Crystal backcountry

Excellent photo of the fog rolling down the pass. Looked beautiful today - I went paragliding instead who was a close 2nd to the slot!

2/2/10 1:45pm

Charlie Hagedorn

This may explain some of the tracks you saw... Quite a few non-TAYers up there sometimes too.

author=silaswild link=topic=15455.msg64619#msg64619 date=1265157860">
NWAC employees were seen heading up for slope evaluations.

What an unrewarding job they have ;). (Thanks guys!)

2/2/10 10:14am

andyrew

Splitter weather, and very pleasant snow. The sunshine felt real nice. I could have stayed out until dark skiing north-facing lines off Chair, if I didn't have to go to work.

2/2/10 10:10am

heinzsd

Jan 31, 2010, Cayoosh on 99

Yes, I was with Bram.

Parking, We parked in the entrance of a logging road about 200 yards to the west of the usual parking. We also saw some folks park on the west side of that pull out where there wasn't signage. - They all headed to arrowhead.

2/2/10 5:06am

skykilo

What month is it anyway?

TAY MODERATION ALERT!

I better go ski tomorrow; that February folder looks lonely.

2/2/10 4:56am

David_Coleman

Jan 31, 2010, Cayoosh on 99

So was this really a February trip, or are you just awaiting Scotman's critique? ::)

2/2/10 3:37am

Pete A

curious where y'all parking for doing the Henry Creek approach since the main pullout on the road by the tunnel vent bldgs have the 'no parking' signs now. thanks!

2/2/10 2:46am

Marcus

Nice -- were you with Bram? We probably heard you in the fog as we were coming down. We considered taking a lap in the upper trees on the west side of the ridge, but it quickly became heavy-heavy and the legs just wanted to get down without injury.

2/2/10 2:41am

heinzsd

Jan 31, 2010, Pickhandle Basin

I went up the Henry Creek approach as a party of 5. Not doing the route before we turned off the logging road a little late and ended up doing the "return loggin road approach" as our ascent. We met back up with the normal up route at about 4000'. Some guys who took out after us but took the better approach had already set the up track and were at least an hour in front of us. Ultimately got to about 6400' where we were turned back by the fog. ...

2/2/10 2:00am

BigRed

Great meeting you guys and skiing with you guys Sunday. Our goal was to make sure you had a hangover so we could keep up with you the next day. The snow certainly exceeded my expectations - and I was surprised how well we traveled as such a large group. I'll try and post some pictures this evening.

Peter

2/2/10 1:58am

jwplotz

This Ale character is turning into a real media darling!

I agree with Pete, I've never seen Asgard Pass so filled in. Did you guys use the rap 1/2 way down?

2/2/10 12:10am

sukiakiumo

Thanks all. I can't wait to get up there again and actually see the summit and surrounding views. And perhaps snag several other peaks right there as Steve suggested.

When we were coming down we met two fellows (forgot their names) doing the isolation traverse Northward. Hopefully the clouds parted for them!

Limited pictures can be found at
http://picasaweb.google.com/sukiakiumo/100131ElDorado?feat=directlink

2/1/10 11:37pm

Stugie

January 30, 2010, Peak 7550, Icicle

Thanks, it definitely added stuff to the ticklist rather than crossing it off...oh well, most tours end up doing that I guess! ;)

Joe, the log and small creek crossing were okay, and so was the last one but it did have a bit of exposure:

2/1/10 2:44pm

Stugie

Looks like you guys had some nice turns out near 8 mile! That's a sweet looking line!

2/1/10 2:37pm

Stugie

Jan 31, 2010, Tatoosh â The Castle

Nice summit!

2/1/10 2:32pm

Stugie

There's definitely some goods up there, glad you guys got some good turns in.

2/1/10 2:31pm

Stugie

January 29-31, 2010, Scottish Lakes High Camp

Glad it was good up there! Sounded like an excellent trip!

2/1/10 2:30pm

blitz

January 29-31, 2010, Scottish Lakes High Camp

sounds like a super trip, where's the pics!

2/1/10 10:09am

JasonGerend

Jan 31, 2010, Tatoosh â The Castle

Nice pictures! The tracks on the right are from Brian, me and Ben - we must've descended just a little before you. Did you follow our tracks down through the trees, or go another way out? I agree that there's getting to be a lot of tracks on The Castle, but I too think that there is still plenty of room for us all (and the backcountry is still nothing like the lineup at any surfing spot I've ever surfed at). I saw some tracks across the valley on another slope that I was contempla...

2/1/10 9:11am

md2020

Jan 31, 2010, Tatoosh â The Castle

author=JasonGerend link=topic=15427.msg64504#msg64504 date=1265010011]
Lots of tracks on the Castle – the 3” of fresh snow definitely didn’t cover the week’s worth of skiing.

Brenda and I spent both Sat and Sun in the area. Nearly all the tracks were from the weekend. It's getting to be a very busy place up there, but still plenty terrain.

I usually judge snow quality by whether Brenda's having a good time or not....

2/1/10 9:03am

lrudholm

Looks like fun.

Supposedly my roommates friend ended up getting frostbite out on dragon tail a little while ago.

2/1/10 6:55am

Snow Bell

Cool trip. Thanks for the conditions update.
That one has been on my mind this season but it hasn't come together yet.

I also remember the boulder field from this last spring but fondly is not the adjective that comes to mind. ;)

2/1/10 5:19am

Big Steve