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Great pictures... though that second to last one is an awfully furry flower ;)
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?
Great day and thanks for the nice post, Mary.
Who'da thought brown snow and giant suncups would be so much fun?
You shouldnaught stopped to say hello to me and you woulda got a better spot. Glad you had a good day and for sure you got in more skiing . Lots of parking at paradise in winter when you all are at Crystal ;-). Sometimes there' sooo much powder we can't make up our minds which part of paradise to ski !
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.
Thanks for the report! The skiing sounds less grim than I would have guessed.
Here's a tip from an old (very old, actually) hand regarding parking at Paradise: Try the picnic area just below the old VC site. All day parking is legal there as long as it's in a marked space, which can make the road hiking quite a bit shorter than from the Valley Rd.
If you study the webcam picture ( http://mms.nps.gov/mora/cam/east.jpg ), you'll notice that less than half th...
Here's a tip from an old (very old, actually) hand regarding parking at Paradise: Try the picnic area just below the old VC site. All day parking is legal there as long as it's in a marked space, which can make the road hiking quite a bit shorter than from the Valley Rd.
If you study the webcam picture ( http://mms.nps.gov/mora/cam/east.jpg ), you'll notice that less than half th...
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?
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?
Nice first post and schlepping downhill gear up there shows you have commitment, fortitude and very little sense. ;D You should fit in here just fine.
Welcome to the asylum! ;)
Welcome to the asylum! ;)
I hadn’t listened to them in a while but now they are stuck in my head.
I’ll definitely try to summon up the Fugazi energy & determination next time I’m dragging it up a volcano.
Props to ya for keeping-on and summiting in the whiteout!
I’ll definitely try to summon up the Fugazi energy & determination next time I’m dragging it up a volcano.
Props to ya for keeping-on and summiting in the whiteout!
Glad you liked the tune.One of my all time favorite bands.
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!
More pics posted here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/chriscass1/RaggedRidgeSnowPatchViaEasyPassNorthCascadesAugust152009?authkey=Gv1sRgCN2F1MjU8PzjuQE#
p.s. Mosetick- great meeting you at Slush Cup!
Glad to see you had some fun down on Shasta. Thanks for the report. Any pics of the patches?
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.
- shoot, that patch looks as if it needs a curvy road sign ! I was just on Shasta and you would dig the patch on Brewer Crk., but it goes straight.
"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...
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...
Glad to hear you like fugazi!
I told my brother Andy it would be unique playing fugazi!
I think I started listening to fugazi as part of the skateboard culture!
This canadian loves the cascades!
Wish I could make it to the slush cup,looks like a blast!
I told my brother Andy it would be unique playing fugazi!
I think I started listening to fugazi as part of the skateboard culture!
This canadian loves the cascades!
Wish I could make it to the slush cup,looks like a blast!
Absolutely hilarious photo!!! But on a serious note, it counts in my book!!! :) Way to pull off August!
Nice report and (derail!) CONGRATULATIONS KAM AND ALLYSON!!
I love the Fugazi soundtrack with the wind noise on top-Very cool video!
It was nice to run into you guys at Cougar Rock camp last week! What a surprise to see Silas pop out of the van!! Allyson and I finished our relaxing honeymoon walk around the Wonderland Trail in about 8 days in near-perfect weather.
Beautiful flowers out there!
Beautiful flowers out there!
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.)
(Every year when it arrives I read this thing cover to cover find myself getting depressed and scared.)
Wow,
I am not sure that I have ever seen so little snow below Coleman Pinnacle. Certainly not this early. I have never seen so much of the small glacier exposed below the pinnacle as can be seen in the distant shot posted.
Alan
I am not sure that I have ever seen so little snow below Coleman Pinnacle. Certainly not this early. I have never seen so much of the small glacier exposed below the pinnacle as can be seen in the distant shot posted.
Alan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9C6exj6Fn8
Hmmm... couldn't find the vid, Timmy. Got a direct link?
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
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
Hey, that's Tim! Hi Tim! Thanks for the report -- nice pictures.
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!"
I think of Chris Farley telling me I could be "living in a van, down by the river!"
I have posted a more complete photographic trip report here: http://www.telemarktalk.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=59417&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
Enjoy,
Bob
Enjoy,
Bob
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'm hoping to "do the Flett" on the weekend of the 14th. I wonder if there will be decent snow left?
MT
MT
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 should mention the main motivation for the trip was to join my friends Kelly and Aaron Miller. They hiked up, along with Kelly's brother and two sons. They beat us up the mountain, and beat us down. Probably because we were too busy being cows, chewing our cud and following each other back and forth across the snow field.
] mooo-ing in jest ..... a new popular BC trend?
If cows...
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!
We headed over to Ptarmigan Ridge and the Sholes Glacier on Monday (BC day)... Great hike, and some decent skiing (about four laps totalling 500vm) from the summit of the First Portal down to a small tarn on the summit's NE side. The runs on the Sholes Glacier from the col between the first and second Portal, as well as snowfields dropping South (towards Rainbow Creek) from the same col also looked pretty good, but we ran out of time to ski them... Lots of glacial ice already exposed... it...
Nice job. It does show how the once-a-month thing is a bit arbitrary (Wow! 2 months of skiing in only 2 days! ::) ) but that is the game we play.
Why not stay at Mowich until September 1? I'll come up for turns and help with the beer. ;)
Why not stay at Mowich until September 1? I'll come up for turns and help with the beer. ;)
Nice work! That snow looks pretty smooth - even smoother than it was a few weeks ago.
By September, it won't matter which side of the mountain we start, we will all end up skiing the same patch of snow somewhere around the summit plateau, so we will see each other.
Nice stuff, Lyles. Much longer runs than I got at Sunrise yesterday!
If Mosetick and Dan Engel post replies, then this TR will be a virtual reunion of our ascent
last July. 8)
If Mosetick and Dan Engel post replies, then this TR will be a virtual reunion of our ascent
last July. 8)
Hey Chris, I love your pictures. Seems that scenery is worth the walk even at this time of year. Sorry we didn't catch up this time being on the other side of the mountain,
Looks like you guys had a blast out there!! After what I was forced to endure on Saturday morning and afternoon, I would have given anything to be out there with you guys!! I hope there will be something good left on Sunday. I am thinking about a pilgrimage out there then.
Wow, that's some narrow snow finger skiing! Probably has a creek under it, too.
I also wondered what was left after our shock/horror heatwave last week. After bailing on the Sholes idea after turning the corner above Camp Kiser we explored the unnamed lake south of camp on Sunday. Skied several chutes and snowpatches north of Point 5726 and west of Point 5847 adding up to about 1,700 feet. A very pleasant day out, but you have to wonder about September! Looks like I missed you guys by one day.
author=Rusty Knees link=topic=13914.msg58180#msg58180 date=1249277003] No other skiers? No summit? Ah well. Good on yah!
Nope, I was the only one crazy enough to lug skis that far. Not enough time after surveying to grab the summit, looked well within reach though.
Hope you all ended up getting out and having fun. Flett?
A man of few words. I like it. You absolutely killed it. That's a ton of work.
Just an added note... bug spray. Definite requirement for the area!
http://picasaweb.google.com/teleskichica/MowichToFlettGlacier?feat=directlink
http://picasaweb.google.com/teleskichica/MowichToFlettGlacier?feat=directlink
Travertine has covered the Saturday portion of the trip very well. My son,Gabe, and my buddy, Tom K.(who is known by several members of the TAY community) arrived at the Artist Point parking lot late Friday afternoon (last day of July). Tom has decided to make his first "turns all year" year in celebration of entering his 7th decade, so we hiked up to the east end of Table Mountain and played on the snow until Tom hit 1,000 vf.
Through out the next day I couldn't help t...
Through out the next day I couldn't help t...
Cool, Chris. Brad said you were up there helping out! Way to get July & August turns. Thanks for the pictures! Beautiful. No other skiers? No summit? Ah well. Good on yah!