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Yakima Peak, May 28, 2009

author=jcocci link=topic=13453.msg56124#msg56124 date=1243544479]
Very nice! I was up on Cot Throat Ridge for the weekend with the wife and some friends and we were admiring the snowfield on Golden Horn and how sweet it looked. Was wondering what the hike in there would be like. Want to get out to Tower sometime as well, cool looking peak.

jcocci, I think with a high approach on Hardy and return the same way it can definitely be d...

5/28/09 9:49am

Zap

Keith, Thanks for the timely report and photos. I had all my gear packed this morning for a trip to Chinook. When the alarm went off at 6am, I had a "vision" of slush and went back to sleep. ;) I noticed that the telemetry today was about 10 degrees warmer at similar times compared to yesterday. I really appreciate your accurate description of the snow conditions. You tell it like it is.

The snow pack looks "fat" and I was surprised to see snow on the sout...

5/28/09 9:44am

Zap

May 24, 2009, Stevens Pass Father and Son Tour

author=Kyle Miller link=topic=13471.msg56128#msg56128 date=1243547874]
When people think of Mount Rainier National Park the first place that pops into there mind is Paradise but for me the best area and place where I would call home is the NE/E side of the park. The East side boasts more then a few massive peaks with crowds that are 1/10 the size of the crowds at Paradise.

You're right about the NE/E side of the park, especially r...

5/28/09 9:26am

Richard Conner

Looks great! That tele turn somehow looks familiar!

5/28/09 9:04am

telemack

May 24-26, 2009;Royal/Deception Basins(Olympic NP)

....earlyish compared to how easy it would have been to languish in the sun absorbing the views from our campsite until ten or eleven (like we did on day three).

Thanks for the snaps Snowby.
As I used the word, "earlyish" meant "not as early as we had hoped".

5/28/09 8:34am

kath

cool ... way to go .... i see where we camped last summer at the base of hal foss .. just as i imagined in the snow ... beautiful!!

5/28/09 8:16am

Marcus

No worries...

5/28/09 8:14am

Teleskichica

Not that I am of this caliber, but I have been daydreaming of a tour like this for the last two years since I first visited the east side contemplating all the options. Way to go! Thanks for the "map" as well. Someday, someday, it'll be my turn, too. :)

5/28/09 8:12am

kath

geez ... awesome stuff ... great pix

5/28/09 8:11am

kath

SWEEEET kyle .... great effort ... you're an animal!! love the pix of rarely seen stuff in that area this time of year ... thx for the ride :)

5/28/09 8:05am

Stugie

Dude, Joe, those pics are AWESOME! I love the one of Mack on Primus with Austera setting the backdrop. I like lounging too. ;)

5/28/09 7:48am

Stugie

Nice day Kyle, that's some serious work you've been throwing down! You got any volcano tr's coming up? Nice work. I've still got your harness too.

5/28/09 7:42am

Marcus

Dude... robust. That's a big day.

We skied the Chimneys last June sometime, coming in via Frying Pan. What a great tour. It's such a beautiful area and when I realized that you could see it from Crystal I was a little surprised.

EDIT -- think you could make your pics just a smidge smaller? I can't get the full effect all on my tiny screen here at work.

I mean at home. Yes, I'm not looking at TAY while I'm at work. N...

5/28/09 7:06am

Snow Bell

So here are a few photos from our trip. Sorry not to put them up sooner but it seems that the longer the trip the bigger domestic deficit I encounter once at home.

A peak at Primus from the E ridge of Austera

Mack skinning Primus with...

5/28/09 6:50am

jcocci

May 23-24, Anvil, Par.Gl, Nisq.Chutes,GoldenGate

Very nice! I was up on Cot Throat Ridge for the weekend with the wife and some friends and we were admiring the snowfield on Golden Horn and how sweet it looked. Was wondering what the hike in there would be like. Want to get out to Tower sometime as well, cool looking peak.

5/28/09 6:01am

Glacierbrains

Nice. I wish I could have gone up there too. Snow looks good and so does the oil can. I'll try to get up there for late July/ Aug for a climbing trip after I buy my sorry ass some new boots.

-P

5/28/09 3:48am

kmcb

Nice work you guys; love those sidestepping pics.

Hey E, Did the views of Mox bring back pleasant memories?

5/28/09 3:39am

Big Steve

May 24-26, 2009;Royal/Deception Basins(Olympic NP)

Yeah baby, way to slay the glop!

5/28/09 3:31am

telemack

That's the "dry" side of the Olympics for you! We had a similar hump last May, but managed to lose the trail both ways. It's quite a place and you bagged some fine runs.
How 'bout that no-bridge drive? ::)

5/28/09 3:27am

hedonaut

isolation traverse may 22-25

That'd be puckering to get hit in that spot! The road wasn't blocked at all, and if we had a high clearance vehicle, we could've driven up depot quite a bit more.

The trail was melting out pretty fast, but we had the pleasure of a good bit of postholio on our trip up. The deadfall is minimal, the trail (w/ snow caveat) is in great shape.

Nicely written report, Pete. And you guys got some good shots. I put some up here: http://picasaweb.google.com/ewehrly/...

5/28/09 2:53am

JimD

Here is a shot I managed to grab as you skied by us Sunday evening below Klawatti, wish I'd had time to set-up better and I'd have a sequence, but it is one of my fav. shots of our trip (wish I'd had the energy to make a run - that snow was sweet.

5/27/09 10:53pm

stoked

author=Pete_H link=topic=13456.msg56021#msg56021 date=1243401806]
After topping out above the first steep headwall and rounding the corner into unstable eastfacing isothermic mush with ball dropping exposure

Great trip but I know what you mean about that exposure. We got hit by rockfall in that spot. I was knocked off my feet but fortunately I had one hand on my ice axe and it held. My partner got hit bad on her arm.

H...

5/27/09 10:01pm

ron j

author=powdrx link=topic=13449.msg56073#msg56073 date=1243458943]
Any other beta will help but thanks for the tips on Morrison!!

powdrx: were I in your shoes and had it to do, I'd exit the notch hard left a little above 7,000 (as you suggested) then skate or skin up a bit staying high left so as to cross the pack trail ridge (just west of the Crescent Gl) no lower than about 7200 (solid yellow track on map).

5/27/09 4:41pm

ron j

May 24, 2009, Steamboat Prow

author=markharf link=topic=13456.msg56060#msg56060 date=1243453381]
Wearing my plasticene clown mask, my polka-dotted tie and my big, clumsy, weird shoes, I'm asking that posters edit their language in this thread. This will save moderators the trouble.
Thanks much!
Mark
(a.k.a. markharf)

Ditto on the "thank you".
We DO appreciate your helping us maintain a more civil and family friendly atmos...

5/27/09 3:18pm

bcskibdy

Mt Ruth side bar. Piggy backing on your post.

We also got a late start out of the White River lot and then got off route about where the river starts to run down the trail. Our goal was Mt Ruth. The tracks you saw were probably three skiers ahead us that we didn't over take. We saw them at the summit and then nothing. We ascended via a gully further back on the ridge and when we got to the summit we saw they had skied down the broad ledge between roc...

5/27/09 3:02pm

Jim Oker

May 23-25, 2009, Forbidden Tour

As typically great as Jim's shots are, I really love your "Jim's thing" shot, shred.

5/27/09 2:51pm

Teleskichica

May 23-25, Mt Stuart

Great pictures so far... :)

5/27/09 2:35pm

telemack

May 23-25, 2009, Forbidden Tour

author=shred link=topic=13446.msg56098#msg56098 date=1243486309]
Did one of your crew lose a powder basket? If so, I would be happy to return it.

Casey Ruff lost one; I gave him my spare. He can keep mine, so I bequeath you his.

5/27/09 1:58pm

Shred

May 23-25, 2009, Forbidden Tour

Great shots Jim!
Man, what an amazing place! It is hard to process all the scenery as it goes by...

Thanks Oyvind and crew! Your route finding skills down to the lake were superb!
Did one of your crew loose a powder basket? If so, I would be happy to return it.

Jim doing his thing

5/27/09 1:51pm

lordhedgie

May 23-25, Mt Stuart

I posted six pics to give an idea of what our trip looked like. If there's interest I might put a gallery up, but even after sorting out the bad shots I've still got a few zillion, and it would take a bit of work. Not to mention the thirty panoramic shots I haven't tried to stitch together yet....

5/27/09 1:50pm

Robie

MAY 25 ,2009, MUIR SNOWFIELD EXIT MCLURE ROCK

Just barely kept up is more like it cept on the downhill ;)

5/27/09 1:11pm

Shred

MAY 25 ,2009, MUIR SNOWFIELD EXIT MCLURE ROCK

author=telemack link=topic=13454.msg56085#msg56085 date=1243464527]
thanks for tilting your camera in the cool direction!

Hey Mack I can assure you that I did not tilt the camera. You just ripped the Pi%* out of it! Not bad for a school teacher ;)

5/27/09 1:05pm

jeff_s

Way to keep up with those youngsters! Next time I try to get these old legs and lungs up to Muir I'll definitely be using my toe-pivot bindings... and my oxygen tank.

5/27/09 1:00pm

blitz

sweet trip report, good job! ;D

5/27/09 10:06am

Monika

author=jhamaker link=topic=13455.msg56082#msg56082 date=1243463907]
Hi from the party you skiied past on Sat., high on the Tahoma Gl.

... on our carry-over (up Tahoma, down Ingram).

Hey, nice to hear from you and see your pics ~

It certainly looked like the slope angle was just ready to back off--Nice work up there!
Sure became windy down at our camp that early evening--How was your carry...

5/27/09 8:46am

daveb

Cool trip guys! I was wondering if it would be a better idea to traverse from Paradise than take the West Side Road to access the Tahoma Glacier. Thanks for providing the answer.

5/27/09 8:19am

telemack

author=JimD link=topic=13454.msg56041#msg56041 date=1243439993">
Here's a shot Jeff got of you ripping Eldo Mac. Thanks for the funny poem on my TR (OMG that trail down did a number on my quads!). Nice meeting you guys.

5/27/09 7:48am

jhamaker

Pic upload attempt 3:

5/27/09 7:46am

TexinNM

:D

I am always in awe and sometimes I am grateful that you don't show me all the pictures. Otherwise I would probably have nightmares. Incredible! You inspire me Sjue!

5/27/09 7:46am

jhamaker

Hi from the party you skiied past on Sat., high on the Tahoma Gl.

>>. . . cramponed with a fair amount of postholing a route up to about 13K. Acute mountain sickness AMS was having it's mean way with Ryan so we decided we had to turn around.<<

Ha, and here I thought you were a couple of mountain spirits with a sixth sense about snow conditons. The slope backed off considerably just 200 ft above your turn-around point. The summit pla...

5/27/09 7:38am

Stugie

May 24/25, 2009, - South Sister (via Green Lakes)

Nice weather and great looking turns! Hope Utah was a blast!

5/27/09 7:32am

Stugie

West Face of Broken Top in Feb...

I bet Buell got some killer good lines!

5/27/09 7:29am

powski3

isolation traverse may 22-25

The traverse isn't very hard to get back to the ridge/ main trail. At about 6500 ft I just threw on my skins and started heading east until I hit it. It's pretty basic as long as the weather is clear. You just keep going until you get to the distinctive Suksdorf ridge and the million tracks of the ascent route. If you camp and don't want to haul all your gear to the summit you will probably have to do this. I didn't have a GPS and it was obvious. However it helps if you...

5/27/09 7:28am

Stugie

Sick trip. Real nice pics.

5/27/09 7:23am

Stugie

Nice work guys. That's some sweet looking terrain.

Day 2: Up earlyish...is that Snow Bell talk for "didn't sleep"? ;)

Nice to see some climbing mixed in with the skiing. I second Scotty, very nice boys.

5/27/09 7:20am

Stugie

I like that "descent from the north side would be mellow..." pic.'

Not so mellow looking. Hella nice work. :)

5/27/09 7:11am

powdrx

Yeah, getting down to Morrison Creek sounds like the best option, and i suspect there is plenty of snow all the way down right now. But I don't have a GPS... just another reason to get one!! We traversed last year to pickup our stashed gear as well, so I don't have the experience descending to Morrison... but this wasn't required since we parked at Cold Springs.
Weather looks great this weekend so I imagine there will be others up there and hopefully some tracks l...

5/27/09 6:15am

Telemon

author=Stugie link=topic=13449.msg56069#msg56069 date=1243455872]
I know quite a few people that do it that way. It really saves time for sure.

We would have done that at the end of June last year, except we had made the mistake of leaving beer and gear at 6,000' on the summer route. We met a solo skier above the Morrison Creek drainage who offered to led us down with the use of his GPS.

5/27/09 5:59am

Stugie