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Some ski pics from Noah. Close to 4,000' of unreal skiing, spiraling clockwise from E through S, before putting the skins back on. Too fun!! :)
Great energy guys and funny vid. Keep em coming
that's rare area to be going. Great to see!
Great directing. You captured the emotion of joy! Very very good job on making that video!
As of Cinco it was great. Might require a more agile step now with the warm weather. Lower right entrance is "platformesque", so should be room to take a step and get back in the game.
Help us groom it and keep it awesome.
Cinco midday Nash was one of the best Nash runs of the season, truth be told. Hoping for a partial lap with kid on back today, we'll see. Go get it.
Help us groom it and keep it awesome.
Cinco midday Nash was one of the best Nash runs of the season, truth be told. Hoping for a partial lap with kid on back today, we'll see. Go get it.
Anyone know if the route from the top into upper international still goes (without any rock band to jump)
I wish I had a good answer. I don't think the summer trail will be in. Boston Basin approach may be in if you don't mind fighting your way up that trail. I think both the ramps on the direct should hold snow. If you can drive to the parking lot you would know soon enough.
Good to see persistence paying off.
Aesthetic line, beautiful area.
Aesthetic line, beautiful area.
Thank you for the report; nice effort! So if the direct route isn't an option after this coming warm weekend, any idea whether the summer trail is hikable (around the cliffs)?
Points for a good try and overall sufferfest quotient.
Yes! I scoped that out one fall! glad to know how it works. Thanks for sharing!
Excellent day, strong effort. In 2009 Snowbell and I camped 2 nights at the Eldorado saddle and Summited Dean's Spire, Austera, Primus, and Eldo. Alpine amazing-ness!
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Wonderful pictures. Has me dreaming of hitting Eldo later this month
I wouldn't wait long. It's pretty good coverage at the moment. A nice transition from dry hiking to skinning at the end of boulder field #1. Schmoo abounds.
Wonderful pictures. Has me dreaming of hitting Eldo later this month
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We followed your tracks from Sharkfin Col to Moraine Lake. I figured we were a couple of days behind you based on the condition of the tracks. It made for easier route finding. Way to push it into the Isolation Traverse as well!
Thanks! Glad our tracks were useful.
Adding some more photos:
4. Moraine Lake bivy
5. Skiing the NE Face of Eldorado...
Nice. But that would be Conga Line
Thanks for the report! I've been wondering about the snowline on a couple of those mountains (Adams and McLoughlin), so it is nice to get some recent info. Also funny the reply about North Cascades and McLoughlin - from the couple times I've been to McLoughlin, I've come to think of it as having some challenging bushwhacking/navigation, but guess it is all relative. I'm probably just a bit lazy, in preferring the (mostly) straightforward climbs up S Cascades volcanoes to the...
We followed your tracks from Sharkfin Col to Moraine Lake. I figured we were a couple of days behind you based on the condition of the tracks. It made for easier route finding. Way to push it into the Isolation Traverse as well!
Seanboy..... As long as the body holds out and the motivation is there..... The cool trips I read about here help. Thanks.
Mamie Peak from the east. I did some serious exposed scrambling to get across this thing.
Old TR Here
Being up on the summit amid some seriously nice granite is what finally inspired me to develop some pitches on the south face.
Old TR Here
Being up on the summit amid some seriously nice granite is what finally inspired me to develop some pitches on the south face.
Wow ..so cool and impressive...thanks for posting!!!
There is significant snow after about a half mile. And the open slope traverses above the creek are treacherous as usual, very firm snow surface in the morning. The big creek crossing is still well-bridged by snow.
how's the approach up the comet falls trail (long enough of a dry hike to justify sneakers)? how's the creek crossing just before comet falls? thanks in advance for the info - probably heading up that way soon.
Sounds like quite the trip, what a nice itinerary!
I have to laugh about the McLoughlin bushwhacking experience. I've skied it twice and have both followed the PCT (trip #1) and done the "direct" route (trip #2). I recall thinking how pleasant the bushwhacking was compared to the steep jungle crap we have in the Cascades. In any case, it is truly a beautiful mountain (very Fuji-esque) and like you, I've never seen another person while out there, e...
I have to laugh about the McLoughlin bushwhacking experience. I've skied it twice and have both followed the PCT (trip #1) and done the "direct" route (trip #2). I recall thinking how pleasant the bushwhacking was compared to the steep jungle crap we have in the Cascades. In any case, it is truly a beautiful mountain (very Fuji-esque) and like you, I've never seen another person while out there, e...
Thanks again.
As far as gear, at times I wished I'd had ski crampons, but since neither of my partners have them, I left mine at home. We still skinned some pretty steep, icy slopes, but the ski crampons would have let me/us relax a bit more.
Dan had an edge start to blow out on the 5th day; seemed to be a freak thing and it was near the tip of the ski in the rocker area, so it wasn't too significant.
I skipped bringing down booties and initially though...
As far as gear, at times I wished I'd had ski crampons, but since neither of my partners have them, I left mine at home. We still skinned some pretty steep, icy slopes, but the ski crampons would have let me/us relax a bit more.
Dan had an edge start to blow out on the 5th day; seemed to be a freak thing and it was near the tip of the ski in the rocker area, so it wasn't too significant.
I skipped bringing down booties and initially though...
Thanks for the icicle back story Frank really enjoyed that! From where I stood It definitely looked like the best job at Alpental that day.
Really appreciate the picture tele-skier! and caption, funny looks like heaven
and no offense taken at all Lowell, thanks for the safety elaboration--that was the impetus for the this post in the first place. Many good mountaineers have succumbed to the cornice so it's always worth mentioning. And elaborating on. Right before...
Really appreciate the picture tele-skier! and caption, funny looks like heaven
and no offense taken at all Lowell, thanks for the safety elaboration--that was the impetus for the this post in the first place. Many good mountaineers have succumbed to the cornice so it's always worth mentioning. And elaborating on. Right before...
Wow! Awesome. What a trip. The photos are fantastic. Surprised you went that deep without a tent. I liked the photo showing an ice axe lashed to a ski pole. Great report.
Thanks for the update and the memorializing of two great spirits.
Lowell - I had a similar experience on the NW ridge of Arrowhead, and took it as a haunting and sobering but very cheap lesson in cornice avoidance. I was quite surprised at how far onto what seemed like solid ground (with rocks and even bits of trees sticking out here and there) the thing broke, and boy howdy did it go down the lee slope fast and hard. I can still picture all the tree tops down there doing...
Lowell - I had a similar experience on the NW ridge of Arrowhead, and took it as a haunting and sobering but very cheap lesson in cornice avoidance. I was quite surprised at how far onto what seemed like solid ground (with rocks and even bits of trees sticking out here and there) the thing broke, and boy howdy did it go down the lee slope fast and hard. I can still picture all the tree tops down there doing...
That slope off of Sherman is very steep. Contemplated it a few times, only seriously the trip when we skied the Talum off of Sherman.
Thanks for reminding me about the icicle removal.. That year I worked for Alp Patrol just doing hill maintenance and avalanche hazard mitigation. Morgan was one of my closest friends, and I was so psyched when he told me we were going to be working the same hill! I wandered into his office to shoot the shit and to see if he wanted to take a break from ski school duties to throw heavy things at the big ice dagger.. of course he was interested. We had a great time demolish...
Ah, thanks for the beta! I recognize your name as having put up a climbing route on Mamie - am I correct?
I don't suppose you have any pics you could share of when you traversed it? Was that in summer then?
I went to Hannegan Peak from Hannegan Pass a few winter's back and it was super mellow, but sounds like I'll want to do some Google Earth work before I head back.
Cheers,
Peter
I don't suppose you have any pics you could share of when you traversed it? Was that in summer then?
I went to Hannegan Peak from Hannegan Pass a few winter's back and it was super mellow, but sounds like I'll want to do some Google Earth work before I head back.
Cheers,
Peter
Regarding your first photo of the summit cornice, I've become more wary in recent years about cornices on rocky ridges and I've come to think that I should avoid walking on them at all, even when it feels like you're well back from the danger. So in that first picture, I would suggest staying on the rocks to just a few feet to lookers right of your partner. Because you can't predict where the cornice may break and how much it will take with it.
I came to this concl...
I came to this concl...
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This avalanche path might be the only one like it in the world. An active fumarole right next to a steep 7,000' slope that gets absolutely blasted with snow during the winter.
It's remarkable to me how that serac can fall off and scour the glacier below, and just a few years later build back up again (50ft+ thick?) to repeat.
I get the willies...
I've done that traverse! And it's was gloriously beautiful and full of blueberries....in September. Obviously getting around Mamie Peak will be the crux of your mission. Pretty deep and steep gullies on the north side will need to be negotiated. Skiing the 4th class knife edge ridge crest will not be an option.
I need to get down there one of these years. Some pics would help inspire me even more.
Anyway, congrats - sounds like a good spot to be right now!
Anyway, congrats - sounds like a good spot to be right now!
Awesome! Looks like great coverage despite the low snowpack in the North Cascades right now.
Did you get any photos looking towards Cache Col, Magic, and Pelton you could share?
Did you get any photos looking towards Cache Col, Magic, and Pelton you could share?
So rad.. thanks for sharing! Trips like that are major tests of equipment.. wondering what lessons you learned, or specifically what you brought and valued, didn't bring and wished you had, etc..
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It is still possible to get in the zone. 1.5 million of vertical for the season to go along with 151 months of earned turns.
Woah! Whats the boundries of a season for yall?
Younger brothers do what ever it takes...it's in our DNA
What a great trip, thanks for the report, thanks for figuring out how to make your pictures work, keep the good stuff coming. TAY needs you! THANKS!
ha, funny Porter. I met another Porter M. on Shuksan this season and jumped to a conclusion. Congrats on finishing school anyway!
I added a link to a google album so hopefully that works and satisfies your picture request.
Thanks guys for the comments. You are right, probably just downhill from here. But I like downhill.
I added a link to a google album so hopefully that works and satisfies your picture request.
Thanks guys for the comments. You are right, probably just downhill from here. But I like downhill.
Nice work boys! Wow, that slide off Sherman is something fierce!
seriously. first trip report? well, everything is downhill.