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5/4/19 2:29am
PorterM
April 24-30, 2019, Pickets Traverse
Good news is my schoolwork wound down a few years ago, however the bad news is I'm a different Porter than you know... Haha funny coincidence though in a relatively niche hobby

Those photos are great! Would love to see any others you're interested in posting. Amazing part of the Cascades
5/4/19 2:27am
voyageur
April 24-30, 2019, Pickets Traverse
Hey Porter, this is Peter! You and I need to get another good ski in this season.  Hope your track/schoolwork is winding down soon!

I think I worked out the pics, maybe I'll do a public album as well.
5/4/19 1:31am
PorterM
April 24-30, 2019, Pickets Traverse
Heck of a trip! Pics aren't showing on the two devices I've tried though
5/4/19 1:12am
RyanLikes2Ski
May 1, 2019, Mount Pilchuck
Thanks for the info- gonna try to squeeze this tour in!
5/3/19 11:05pm
Mtraslin
April 11, 2019, Cliff Chair 5 Laps steep lines
Thanks for the day. I thought we were skiing one line that day..... I was happy finally skiing the main ski line in the center. But to ski four more lines in a day was a bonus. Classic younger brother sandbagging the older brother moment..... Glad I can still hang in there some days. 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. Thanks for the day.
5/3/19 2:24pm
tele.skier
Red, snoq, still big cornice, 190430
Thanks for the conditions report Stefan, and the reminder of our friends who have left us too soon, never to be forgotten.



Morg, balls deep on a big pow day...
5/3/19 8:16am
jtack
April 11, 2019, Hart Mountain Refuge
try again
5/3/19 8:05am
flowing alpy
04/28/2019, Artist Point Sticky Fun
Alpental was real real good.
5/3/19 4:39am
flowing alpy
April 28-29, 2019, Calicornia
great news! glad to know your getting the fun
5/3/19 3:23am
kamtron
April 28, 2019, - Stuart Cascadian/SE Shoulder
Was up there yesterday. The approach via sled had a LOT of dry road and was a lot slower than we were planning because of it. The Cascadian itself is nearly melted out. It's quite narrow in spots with rocks poking through. We ended up turning and skiing from the top of the Cascadian because it was 2 pm by the time we made it there, and my leg was cramping something fierce. The upper Cascadian had about 6" of newer snow which skied somewhat funky, but the lower part held great corn.
5/3/19 2:07am
jtack
April 12, 2019, Warner Canyon Ski area (closed)
Micah, thanks, I'll try and get it straightened out this evening,
5/2/19 12:32pm
Micah
April 12, 2019, Warner Canyon Ski area (closed)
jtack: if you email the pictures to me (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) I will get them up. I can't see the pictures at the urls you have now (maybe permissions on your google??). In any event, I don't think those urls will display inline on TAY. Shoot me a pm if you want help massaging your pictures. (Ditto for everyone else.)
5/2/19 8:20am
jtack
April 11, 2019, Hart Mountain Refuge
pictures added.NOT I'll work on it, sorry
5/2/19 7:39am
jtack
April 12, 2019, Warner Canyon Ski area (closed)
photos added.....I hope
5/2/19 7:27am
aaasen
April 28, 2019, Watson's Traverse
Yeah, looks like it was triggered by the fumarole to me. I don't see how else it would glide off the rock like that and leave glacial ice debris.

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.

Scrolling through John Scurlock's photos I found this one of the Park Headwall in October: https://pbase.com/nolock/image/69174842

5/2/19 6:26am
ride66
April 28, 2019, - Stuart Cascadian/SE Shoulder
Weather at the end of the day
5/2/19 5:53am
dberdinka
April 28, 2019, Watson's Traverse
very cool photos!  Pretty sure Scurlock has taken photos of a very similar release zone in years past.  Fumarole induced weakness?
5/2/19 5:33am
cprahl
April 20, 2019, Black Peak S Face
Off topic... Perhaps used by OP Dickert himself on the Goode FA in '36? Fantastic photo of NF Goode, and recent Black Pk carving.
5/2/19 4:13am
osean
April 28, 2019, - Stuart Cascadian/SE Shoulder
author=Good2Go link=topic=41883.msg164913#msg164913 date=1556585339]
The day started out with perfect, windless bluebird skies and switched to a low cloud deck with few openings around 11 and then light snow by noon. 


Always seems like the approach has the best damn weather!!!! Beta well received. Thanks for sharing
5/2/19 3:17am
cprahl
April 28, 2019, Watson's Traverse
Such a fine tour, and a great TR. Thanks! Amazing power displayed by that Sherman Peak/Boulder Glacier growler. Perhaps worthy of a fly-over snapshot by Mr Scurlock? Maybe from high elevation rain-on-snow event on 4/18-19?

See https://pbase.com/nolock/image/65041891
5/2/19 1:56am
Rowan Stewart
April 24, 2019, Watson Traverse
Rad! thanks for the report
5/1/19 12:06pm
myikat
April 27, 2019, Oregon corn
Ed and I harvested some delicious sweet corn in Crystal Lakes dropping in from the Bench. In prime shape. Lots of spontaneous wet slide activity below cornices and point releases.
5/1/19 10:57am
Micah
April 20, 2019, Black Peak S Face
Thanks, Lane.

author=aaasen link=topic=41860.msg164892#msg164892 date=1556344403]
Go for it. I'm the skier (Lane Aasen) and my friend Matthew Koppe took the photo.
5/1/19 3:36am
aaasen
April 20, 2019, Black Peak S Face
author=Micah link=topic=41860.msg164891#msg164891 date=1556341346]
I suggest a caption contest.... or at least OP let me know if it's not cool to use as cover photo.


Go for it. I'm the skier (Lane Aasen) and my friend Matthew Koppe took the photo.
5/1/19 3:34am
Micah
April 20, 2019, Black Peak S Face
I suggest a caption contest.... or at least OP let me know if it's not cool to use as cover photo. I concur that the photo is one of many really nice shots aaasen has recently posted.


author=peteyboy link=topic=41860.msg164876#msg164876 date=1556149067]
I nominate picture #2 of the next cover photo on Turns All Year. Second?



author=PhilH link=topic=41860.msg164877#msg1648...
5/1/19 1:04am
Lowell_Skoog
April 20, 2019, Black Peak S Face
author=aaasen link=topic=41860.msg164881#msg164881 date=1556226471]
Thanks for the photo complements, my friend Matthew took it. It's a special shot for me because Goode is in the background and my great grandfather was on the first ascent of Goode in 1936. Black Peak was climbed a decade earlier, but back then it was probably a multi-day expedition from Lake Chelan, not a roadside day trip. It's a spectacular part of the Cascades.
...
4/30/19 9:48am
aaasen
April 20, 2019, Black Peak S Face
Thanks for the photo complements, my friend Matthew took it. It's a special shot for me because Goode is in the background and my great grandfather was on the first ascent of Goode in 1936. Black Peak was climbed a decade earlier, but back then it was probably a multi-day expedition from Lake Chelan, not a roadside day trip. It's a spectacular part of the Cascades.

The whippet was nice for prying the window open, but if you need to smash the window a real ice axe is the tool...
4/30/19 6:19am
hedonaut
April 20, 2019, Black Peak S Face
Heck yes that is a good shot.  Agree that the S slope of Black down to Woody Cr skied great! 

We also noticed you guys problem-solving on the lockout earlier in the morning, and congratulated you. At one point it looked like you were going to find yet another use for a whippet.
4/30/19 4:52am
PhilH
April 20, 2019, Black Peak S Face
author=peteyboy link=topic=41860.msg164876#msg164876 date=1556149067]
I nominate picture #2 of the next cover photo on Turns All Year. Second?


Second! Magazine cover worthy.
4/30/19 4:41am
peteyboy
April 20, 2019, Black Peak S Face
I nominate picture #2 of the next cover photo on Turns All Year.  Second?
4/30/19 3:40am
RyanLikes2Ski
April 20, 2019, Black Peak S Face
Picture number #2 put a smile on my face. Thanks for sharing - If you are ever looking for an extra tour buddy hit me up!
4/30/19 1:53am
RyanLikes2Ski
Lena, Bretherton Earth Day Weekend
Whippet real good. Looks like you guys had fun :)
4/30/19 1:45am
skykilo
April 20, 2019, Black Peak S Face
schwing
4/29/19 11:44pm
tele.skier
Lena, Bretherton Earth Day Weekend
Awesome work there.  Great video too, it made me jones for snow...
4/29/19 3:19pm
skykilo
Lena, Bretherton Earth Day Weekend
That face does look cool. 

This is impressive or something; snow camping is rough enough without rain. 

-A softy
4/29/19 8:18am
FairiesWearBoots
Lena, Bretherton Earth Day Weekend
Ha
4/29/19 2:48am
CliffedDoubt
Lena, Bretherton Earth Day Weekend
author=FairiesWearBoots link=topic=41858.msg164862#msg164862 date=1556045779]
Nothing personal against Jake. Just noting a growing epidemic.
It's like pushing mongo or paramarking.


Or like flaunting one's superiority in public forums
4/28/19 4:04am
FairiesWearBoots
Lena, Bretherton Earth Day Weekend
Nothing personal against Jake. Just noting a growing epidemic.
It's like pushing mongo or paramarking.
4/27/19 5:26am
Stefan
Lena, Bretherton Earth Day Weekend
great vid!
4/26/19 2:53pm
dustroyer
Lena, Bretherton Earth Day Weekend
sweet video! that viz on the final run to camp haha  ;D

-splitboarder who often rides with poles out especially this time of year
4/26/19 2:02pm
CliffedDoubt
Lena, Bretherton Earth Day Weekend
author=FairiesWearBoots link=topic=41858.msg164855#msg164855 date=1556038024]
Dear world, 
Please stop snowboarding with poles out. 
Thank you


Thanks for the hate. Would love to see a splitboarder move as efficiently as Jake in the mountains without... The way he crushes vert, he could be toting two giant purple marital aids and I wouldn't question it.
4/25/19 8:52am
FairiesWearBoots
Lena, Bretherton Earth Day Weekend
Dear world, 
Please stop snowboarding with poles out. 
Thank you
4/25/19 6:07am
CliffedDoubt
Lena, Bretherton Earth Day Weekend
Link to Video on Vimeo:
https://vimeo.com/332021793
4/25/19 3:45am
kamtron
April 20, 2019, Black Peak S Face
Great photos.

Your Subaru story reminds me of a time in college at UVM when we had this massive 4' storm on Valentine's Day. Somehow we had loaded our gear into my friends car but shut the door and locked ourselves out while it was running in the driveway. I was able to break in with a coat hanger and the powder day was saved. I think that day I actually triggered a small wind slab in the trees at Mad River, which I was not expecting!
4/25/19 1:26am
Jake the Brit
April 20, 2019, Black Peak S Face
...really very fabulous photos.
4/24/19 8:37am
Ross B
April 21, 2019, Birthday Tour + Copper Pass (+Avalanche)
Had an extremely similar experience on Red Mountain, also yesterday. No red flags of wet and/or slab activity other than old debris and we remote triggered a wet slab up top. Totally caught us by surprise.

In retrospect we were ascending slopes that had already slid wall to wall earlier this week, which made for easy skinning and great stability. We didn't really consider the possibility of hitting slopes that had not slid, and definitely didn't consider the type of slab act...
4/24/19 4:49am
Onward.
April 21, 2019, Birthday Tour + Copper Pass (+Avalanche)
author=cumulus link=topic=41851.msg164831#msg164831 date=1555948670]
Thanks for the report, link, and photo!

Looks to be sun softened wind slab. Usually remains cohesive in the early hours retaining structure from overnight freeze (hence previous skier tracks), but then looses that structure and becomes volatile with softening by the sun and/or air temps.
Like you said most likely formed from the mid week snowfall (and wind) we had recently.
4/24/19 4:46am
marshallgeo5
April 20, 2019, Snoqualmie Mountain
Amazing how much changed from 4/16-4/19. There is clearly a lot less snow. Sorry, I am failing to upload this image despite meeting file size requirements. It was a crown face at the lowest exit point (you can barely see that location in the photo above), where the westward wall completely opens up into the Thunder Creek basin. We saw countless other north facing, similar angled aspects during the day but no other evidence of slabs. Slot is obviously a unique feature of Snoqualmie.
4/23/19 11:52pm
kamtron
Apr 20, 2019, Coleman glacier
Run 1 vistas
Raincorn
4/23/19 11:26am
wingy
April 20, 2019, Snoqualmie Mountain
author=marshallgeo5 link=topic=41849.msg164818#msg164818 date=1555890566]
"2.5-3 foot crown immediately at the exit of couloir, extending from wall to wall"


to be clear, you're saying there was a 30-36" crown *face...?