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Nice to see that the fun extended well down into OR this weekend!
This thread is reminding me of a bit of irony - back in the days when we took the dogs along on tours (when they were young and healthy - now we have a mix of one old creaky dog and one with bum hips), I recall one June tour out past Table Mountain. We started by heading up to Huntoon Point (just above the "Seattle slopes" that Silas and others appeared to have been skiing Saturday), and our two dogs kept going into the melting-out tree wells and disappearing there for a while. We fina...
Nice snow, nice shots! Will have to keep that destination in mind for a retiree road trip.
Love it, welcome to the fun.
author=Scotsman link=topic=14479.msg60530#msg60530 date=1258262201]
What about skiers who take a piss and create yellow snow, shouldn't they FOCUS as well.???
Whats the difference between a skier taking a piss off to the side and a dog taking a poopy off to the side. I agree neither should do it in the skintrack or areas where others congregate.
Why is a wolf turd in the wilderness a thing of wonder but a dog turd a thing of disgust?
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Wow, this thread got hijacked fast, and by the original poster even!
We were up at Baker BC on Sat pm as well, got a late start, but got a couple nice runs in. Having not been to Baker in about a decade, it's always fun to "discover" the terrain. We managed to find our way down an obvious chute above the parking lot just before dusk. Great day for mid-November!
We were up at Baker BC on Sat pm as well, got a late start, but got a couple nice runs in. Having not been to Baker in about a decade, it's always fun to "discover" the terrain. We managed to find our way down an obvious chute above the parking lot just before dusk. Great day for mid-November!
Glad your fight through the low coverage was worth it! The pics look like you even had good skys on your way down!
Nason Ridge gets no love from the masses, but that's a good thing.
Nason Ridge gets no love from the masses, but that's a good thing.
author=Rusty Knees link=topic=14477.msg60576#msg60576 date=1258339886]Note to Stevens Pass: You missed the boat by not having any services for sale. As Paul said - "They left a lot of money on the table".
Our thoughts exactly. If anyone had offered us $5 plastic cups of insipid American lager to wash down our dirtbag PB&J lunches, we would probably have had 100 percent compliance in our group!
For some reason, I didn't get a lot of pictures of this outing... ;)
We (Moscawulff, Teleskichicka, and Paul) were a part of the headcount. Too bad we didn't run into any others we knew. We did two laps up the double eagle face/Big Chief/Tye Mill areas, then drank Moscawulff's surprisingly smooth first batch homebrew in the lodge till they closed the place down and kicked our small group out.
Highlights - Someone else laid in the skin track, Soft untracked snow coming down the Big Chief face, Lunch in the sun at the base, Deep pillowy...
Highlights - Someone else laid in the skin track, Soft untracked snow coming down the Big Chief face, Lunch in the sun at the base, Deep pillowy...
author=Scotsman link=topic=14479.msg60537#msg60537 date=1258265329]
So only dog poop is bad? Elk poop, wolf poop, bear poop, snow martin poop, deer poop,stoat poop, weasel poop, ptarmaging poop are OK?
Doesn't make sense to me as an argument but at least I agree that all poop near a skin track should be cleared up.
Yep. I'm just asking humans to bury underground (not just under the snow to be melted out in the spring)...
Been plenty of foxes around from the silver/cross fox color phase to the red color phase.
Another version of the same story ;).
Nice TR, fun read and great pics! Seems the only right thing to do from here as you said would be a lot more research... :)
Here are a few more pics... no action shots though...
Can't wait to get out there this year. Thanks for the report.
thanks .I was wondering about the possibility of a tour up there.
They arrived somewhere between 5:15 and 5:30. A ranger vehicle was parked in the lot. (Glad the prediction for calm wind held....)
No fox poo sightings. Last year around the same time we saw a fox in the lot at dusk.
No fox poo sightings. Last year around the same time we saw a fox in the lot at dusk.
That was likey us (Andrew, Greg and myself) skinning out that you passed Mosetick. Departed lot at about 9:30AM, we followed a lone snowshoe track in setting a skin track to Source Lake (SL), like mentioned it is not the optimal ski "exit" track... and yes way too many creek crossings and ups-downs, but too lazy to set the correct track :-[
From SL we headed up the avalanche slopes up to the ridge looking down on Snow Lake. Overall snow coverage is decent, but boulders and...
From SL we headed up the avalanche slopes up to the ridge looking down on Snow Lake. Overall snow coverage is decent, but boulders and...
Good solo short, Chris. Check your PM.
That was an amazing number of skiers and tracks at the area. Thanks to the conga-lines that put in the skin track up Cloud 9. It was interesting to see all the boulders, trees, etc. that are buried later in the season, yet still have lots of deep snow.
When we skied from the traverse track leading away from the top of 7th I entered the track of a surface slide that had run 8' wide for 50' or so; I guess it slid on the surface hoar from before the last 3" of fresh. Skipri...
When we skied from the traverse track leading away from the top of 7th I entered the track of a surface slide that had run 8' wide for 50' or so; I guess it slid on the surface hoar from before the last 3" of fresh. Skipri...
Yes, very good of you to wait for everyone's return. We felt inefficient on the way down (my friend was on a splitboard and less inclined to walk over rocks than I was with my old skis), so were surprised to see a good number of cars in the lot when we returned to the parking lot at 5. We weren't sure if the other couple made it down before us or not. Did the Park Ranger stick around with you, too? What time did the last skiers arrive?
Silas - sounds like a tough travel schedule.
Scotty - I'm with you on the poop conundrum. As for the pee, on the backside of Stevens yesterday, someone had peed right ON the uptrack. Huh. I guess we can blame it on a dog ;).
I'm glad we had mostly-bluebird at Stevens yesterday. Even as the clouds descended toward 4, we were having no problems out in the open.
Scotty - I'm with you on the poop conundrum. As for the pee, on the backside of Stevens yesterday, someone had peed right ON the uptrack. Huh. I guess we can blame it on a dog ;).
I'm glad we had mostly-bluebird at Stevens yesterday. Even as the clouds descended toward 4, we were having no problems out in the open.
Wow. What an amazing starter for the season for our small crew. We left the van at the lazy hour of 10, and had no problem finding as many fresh turns as our legs wanted to handle until we returned to the van at 4. Despite reports that the back side was "done - getting heavy and there's a crust under..." we decided to give it a shot and headed down Aquarius. As long as we stuck to skiers right, where the snow was mostly shaded by trees, we were loving the snow, and no one else had...
Baker BC was great yesterday. Way drier than earlier in the week, and way better visibility. Compared to the amount of people in the parking lot the BC was fairly empty. There were still some fresh shots in spitting distance of Austin pass at 3:00'ish.
Dude, I would rather piss not be covered up. You ever step off the skin track for something and stomp around for a second to find your wallowing in yellow snow?
Dude, I would rather piss not be covered up. You ever step off the skin track for something and stomp around for a second to find your wallowing in yellow snow?
A full ten points and good karma for the rest of the season
btw, was there any fox poop laying about..?
btw, was there any fox poop laying about..?
We sat in the parking lot and waited to make sure everyone came down...Two skier's appeared and got into the last car in the lot. YAY!
author=andyrew609 link=topic=14479.msg60535#msg60535 date=1258264092]
Urine is sterile. Poop is not. Urine also doesn't resurface in the spring.
Fantastic snow today.
So only dog poop is bad? Elk poop, wolf poop, bear poop, snow martin poop, deer poop,stoat poop, weasel poop, ptarmaging poop are OK?
Doesn't make sense to me as an argument but at least I agree that all poop near a skin track shoul...
Thanks for the skin track. I was the tele skier that said hi right at your turnaround point. We foolishly pushed on to muir, along with one other party. We were rewarded with surprisingly good conditions higher up, but paid the price trying to navigate in pea soup down low after sunset. Never thought I would be so happy to see tracked out powder which guided us back to the fairly dark parking lot.
Hopefully the couple we met at muir made it down without i...
Hopefully the couple we met at muir made it down without i...
Urine is sterile. Poop is not. Urine also doesn't resurface in the spring.
Fantastic snow today.
Fantastic snow today.
Thanks for helping me live vicariously, guys. Looks and sounds like a great time!
author=silaswild link=topic=14479.msg60529#msg60529 date=1258260448]
Forgot to mention the most impressive sight of the day: two snowshoers using pooperscooper and garbage bag to clean up after their pet! Wouldn't it be nicer for everyone if all who bring their dogs into ski country did the same?
Dog owners of TAY, set the good example for skiers and FOCUS (friends of clean unsullied snow)! Thank you.
What...
Forgot to mention the most impressive sight of the day: two snowshoers using pooperscooper and garbage bag to clean up after their pet! Wouldn't it be nicer for everyone if all who bring their dogs into ski country did the same?
Dog owners of TAY, set the good example for skiers and FOCUS (friends of clean unsullied snow)! Thank you.
Dog owners of TAY, set the good example for skiers and FOCUS (friends of clean unsullied snow)! Thank you.
Frontcountry appeared well tracked out by 330pm to me. Sidecountry that required hiking still has few tracks. Snow began falling again (lightly) around 3pm. Tomorrow should be excellent. Have fun.
Your religious experience hath put my day at hyak to shame. Mad props, wish I was there, but Hyak was pretty awesome too!
Nice work, glad it worked out for you. What were the snow conditions like? Did you dig any pits?
how did it look inbounds? Friends might head up tomorrow so i might tag along but at 3.5 hour drive its a long ways if its tracked out for the most part
Great stuff. Good to see pit pictures and results showing up regularly, too. Nice work y'all.
Just for reference, Dan is 6 feet tall ;D.
Nice tracks Dan. I knew that someone must have been over there and were gettin goods.
It's funny that a patroller warned you that it would suck. How could it have sucked? The coverage was plenty to have a go and the snow quality... well, you know about that.
Skiers right of Brain Damage? Is that Appliance Chute?
It's funny that a patroller warned you that it would suck. How could it have sucked? The coverage was plenty to have a go and the snow quality... well, you know about that.
Skiers right of Brain Damage? Is that Appliance Chute?
Nice TR on the blog Kyle, thanks for writing it up. I know that I will visit it in the dry season and try to conjure memories of that day. I am glad that a few of our pictures turned out alright although they don't seem to do justice to the wonderful conditions. I could hardly believe our luck with the sun and snow quality.
The line off Northway Peak will be my benchmark for powder turns this season. So nice.
I am afraid I must have gotten a bit...
The line off Northway Peak will be my benchmark for powder turns this season. So nice.
I am afraid I must have gotten a bit...
Great shot of the surface hoar. Good to know it is out there for the weekends trips!
Thanks for the info!
Thanks for the info!
You mean this peak? Looks interesting... just a long way to get there.