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that sucker has been on my mind for 2 YEARS!!!! i'm so jealous!!! Question: do you think it easier to approach via the trail via Stujack Pass? has anyone ever tried it direct from the bottom?

-J

2/4/10 7:21am

bramvs

January 30, 2010, Peak 7550, Icicle

Nice pics. Good trip for sure, pleasantly suprised about the good weather and snow conditions too!!!

2/4/10 6:51am

niko

Hi JW: What is the situation at Cannon Mtn? Thanks, N

2/4/10 5:49am

niko

Nice TR!

Did Cannon and the Couloir look skiable from where you were? Does the N shoulder of Cannon look adequately covered? Thanks, N

2/4/10 5:46am

ebeam

We did not notice crevasses in our line. We stayed on the east side near the rock wall most of the way as it appeared to be the best fall line and provided better visibility than the open white slopes slightly west.

Looking west, we did notice bare glacier ice on some rollovers and some indication of open or more thinly bridged crevasses. Most of this was about mid-way up as the lower part appears to no longer have real glacier (lots of avy debris and water ice on rock slab, but not g...

2/4/10 5:07am

chrism

Nice. Did you note any open (or thinly veiled) crevasses? Wondering how the low snow totals have affected the winter fill-in.

2/4/10 4:32am

ebeam

waiting for my tech guy ...

2/4/10 3:34am

old guy

What, no videos?

2/4/10 3:30am

ebeam

One more - looking down our run. A very sweet fall line.

2/4/10 2:43am

JimD

Cool - thanks for the report and great pix!

2/3/10 10:59pm

trees4me

Gorgeous shots! Looks like you had a great run despite the avy conditions.

4500' snow level seems amazing for this time of year...

2/3/10 3:47pm

Charlie Hagedorn

Excellent choice :)!

2/3/10 3:41pm

Stugie

Dude, holy sh**! You're crazy man. Nice solid work, you and Jon. way to hit it again!

2/3/10 2:38pm

Stugie

Great pics!

2/3/10 2:35pm

Jason_H.

Awesome Conner. Nice having you along.

Some of my Pics.

2/3/10 2:19pm

Jim Oker

Feb 02, 2010, Nisqually Chute

Beautiful photos - thanks for sharing.

2/3/10 1:55pm

telemack

Hey Michael---looks like a beautiful day, good run, and good avy info. Cheers

2/3/10 1:39pm

FreeBird

Not too bad down to the bridge.

http://www.vholdr.com/node/65951

2/3/10 11:38am

davidG

Letty and I looked from the bridge on Sunday and remarked that If you weren't too concerned about your ski base, you might indeed make the run. Nice to see it, and let's hope for more..

2/3/10 10:17am

Micah

Beautiful pics! I have always wanted to do Pugh in the winter but have never gotten to it....

2/3/10 5:39am

ovrthhills

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

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

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

Jan, 2010, 30-31 El Dorado

Sweet pics!

2/3/10 4:00am

alecapone

Very nice! Way to get some.

Thanks for the report.

2/3/10 1:16am

alecapone

January 30, 2010, Peak 7550, Icicle

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

The Eternity Slog- The Enchantments - 1.29-31.10

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

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

The Eternity Slog- The Enchantments - 1.29-31.10

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

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

Jan 31, 2010, Pickhandle Basin

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

The Eternity Slog- The Enchantments - 1.29-31.10

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

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.

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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

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

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