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-solitude, dark chocolate, bright sunrise = Epic      nice job

8/23:  Lacking partner for more exotic places, I hiked up to 8900' on the snowfield, to base of steeper slope up to Camp Muir, where the glacial ice, rock,  running water, new water ice and cracks begin in earnest. Picked my way across from climbers right through all that to smoother areas of giant suncups with melt ponds in their bottom, and agree with MaryG that these are fun to ski. About an inch of gritty corn or shave ice snow on harder stuff. Skied to above Pebble Creek for about 1400...

author=Oyvind_Henningsen link=topic=13968.msg58484#msg58484 date=1250893706]man how did we ever make turns on 55-55-55???

I think I skied a lot faster in those days.

Way to get back to your roots, Oyvind!

I was just up at Hood a week or so ago, and suprisingly the White River Glacier and Zigzag snowfield were in decent shape.  Usually the best lift served skiing is around Labor Day in September, or in early October, both of which are after the camps close.  There's no one around and you can have the mountain mostly to yourself...

- that sounds and looks like Folgefonna. Unless there is another summer skicentre in the North ? I put in a report last year at this time. That snow looks killer ! It looks like the same kickers on the hill. I forgot the water at the base of the T. I miss the T-bar at Mammoth. I learned how to ski pow off that lift !

if you'd like I can send you an 8X10, of the week before with a cool cloud cap, and this wk. of clear sky.  I first need a digital, (next season) and I think I can send to the website, from the Library.
                                                      Rob Miller
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I was up there with a group last Saturday.  We went up via Pebble Creek and took off across the bottom of of the Muir snowfield.  Crossed the ridge below Sugarloaf (?) and on up to the glacier proper.  We broke out of the clouds around 6400 ft.  Climbed up to around 8200 ft, did some rescue practice right below the big rock lump at that elevation and then skied down.  The snow was good (to me at least) until we good down in the low 7000s.  We also hit fog down below...

relaxing? Did I miss something? 
Great day and thanks for the nice post, Mary.
Who'da thought brown snow and giant suncups would be so much fun?

Thanks for the nice views and the TR. I couldn't make the slush cup either and was thinking of this for this coming weekend. May need a plan B.

Welcome to the club, and to the PNW...

No need to "excuse" yourself for Whistler and Tiberline trips. During the summer, available snow is wherever you can find it!

BTW: Did you use skins at either resort?

Great pictures, Wolfs.
Thanks.

Any day skiing beats hiking in my books.

Fun trip and great patch turns. 
More pics posted here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/chriscass1/RaggedRidgeSnowPatchViaEasyPassNorthCascadesAugust152009?authkey=Gv1sRgCN2F1MjU8PzjuQE#

p.s.  Mosetick- great meeting you at Slush Cup!

author=skimtner link=topic=13948.msg58389#msg58389 date=1250453386]
- to start, I was lookin at the # of rpts. for July, '08, and there were 106. This July there were 68. So a lot less reports. 

A LOT less snow, too. :'( Even worse in August; the month is half over and there are only half a dozen trip reports so far.

"if only I could figure out how to post pictures" If a computer dinosaur like me can do it, anyone should be able.

1. dumb down your 3 choices to 200kb or less and place them somewhere on your harddrive that you can access through the "browse button" (I use my Documents on my Apple)
2. Click on "Browse" to pick your dumbed down JPGs
3. Do not use the Preview as you might lose your photos off of the TR
ps I think that it is useful to give a...

Absolutely hilarious photo!!! But on a serious note, it counts in my book!!!  :) Way to pull off August!

I love the Fugazi soundtrack with the wind noise on top-Very cool video!

Well this incident made it into the annals of the AAC's Accidents in North American Mountaineering, 2009 (p71-2), while acknowledging that there was no accident.

(Every year when it arrives I read this thing cover to cover find myself getting depressed and scared.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9C6exj6Fn8

It is I. Hello Marcus.

Scott sent me the link to this report, so I thought a Vid was in need.

Find it at http://sstroopers.com
Might not qualify as a Turns all Year vid, but there it is anyway.

Live to Ski Another Day!

TNT

sweeet .. great pix .. looks a lot different than when we climbed fm crag view in jun 07 .. skiing would be a blast! way to get in some  turns ..

Hey Dr telemark, not sure how the Flett will be on the 14th.  I'm guessing you should be o.k.  since it has cooled off a bunch.  Regretably I didn't get that far, but maybe Stugie could give you a better guess than I.  Sorry I missed you guys too, some company would've been good for my motivation. 

I think of Chris Farley telling me I could be "living in a van, down by the river!"

Sorry we missed you!  We were camped on the ridge below Observation Rock, same time frame.  Suncups weren't bad in the late, late afternoon.

I wish that I could get my fellow skiers to wear red since it definitely makes for more interested pictures.  ;)  I see that Silas has upgraded from pale pink to flamboyant red. Hopefully, I can hook up all of your group before the year is up.

I could hang out at Mowich till then, maybe if you brought along a couple pints of blood and some new mosquitoe repellant for me!