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pugh awaits.....

James Wells

Corrected a few things in original post. Obviously I mixed up 4096 (easy to remember as 2^12) with 4070 (similarly memorable as 10 * 11 * the twelfth prime number).

From Pugh there is a striking west-facing ridge (including the pretty extreme looking west face of Pugh) that curls around to south-facing gullies on Spring Mountain (I did not know it had a separate name until a minute ago). The common properties of all of these places are that they are steep, were loaded with...

3/27/09 1:56pm

Kyle Miller

watched you guys rip down the apron from the skin track
Nice work she was a beauty

3/27/09 1:55pm

skierlyles

Dawn Patrollers (Ari, Haggis, and others)- thanks for setting a nice uptrack, and leaving us more of the slot to ski for ourselves

Lisa- thanks for the beta on partners

Kam and Bob- good times!

Chris

3/27/09 11:50am

Zap

It's great to have you back. Your trip reports have been missed. Please go back out and torture yourself some more and post another report. ;)

3/27/09 10:00am

Jason_H.

Glacier Peak (insert drool).

3/27/09 9:46am

cascade.skier

I thought you gave up skiing. You returned just in time for winter.

3/27/09 9:26am

davidG

author=ron j link=topic=12833.msg53471#msg53471 date=1238179941]

For those of you that don't yet know or recall what a live wire, a virtual bundle of jangled nerves, that Mark can be, just take a gander at him during a typical day of his recent travels:

...sorry to interrupt, but those saddlebags, from this angle, I really can't tell, please, but are they fine Italian leather or heavy duty Glad...

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3/27/09 9:23am

Lisa

Glad you guys had a good time and finally hit the slot, its a magical area indeed. I figured you all would hit it off, glad to hear it.

3/27/09 8:38am

Rusty Knees

March 26, 2009, Herman Saddle, Baker backcountry

Hey Chris - great photos! Your photography is getting pretty dang good!
Beautiful area. Man am I jealous!

3/27/09 8:35am

cmosetick

Glad you got out!! Looks like you had a beautiful day out there!

3/27/09 8:22am

telemack

March 26, 2009, Herman Saddle, Baker backcountry

Good job uncaging the bluebird. :)

3/27/09 8:20am

cmosetick

What a interesting, challenging, and fun trip! I had several gear issues, the main one being that my skins need to be re-glued, and the other being that one of my ski poles was sucked into a worm hole when I fell on the way up, never to be seen again. Fortunately, my ski straps worked well on my skins despite needing to be adjusted constantly. Also, it is possible to do a backwards somersault down this mountain with yours skis in free heel mode and end up with a tree branch in the back of you...

3/27/09 8:01am

curmudgeon

What a relief to know you are still with us!!

It would be a pleasure to ski, for once, with someone who does not require me to pant with my tongue dragging in the snow at the back of the pack!! Maybe we can skin up to Cheap Date some mid-day, do a lap, and call it a day, retiring to the tap room to recount our adventure.

Welcome back, wordsmith.

3/27/09 7:54am

Telemon

It was nice meeting you in the parking lot yesterday, Mark. Sorry about the identity mixup, but after all, it has been 4 or 5 years since we last skied together and we are both getting elderly. Is it possible to be a supernatural geriatric?

I've missed your very readable trip reports over the last couple of years. Those of us who do not write so well, often try to make up for our literary handicaps with our photos. I hope that you don't mind if I post a couple shots taken y...

3/27/09 7:34am

haggis

Ari, we should have got those 1st tracks - screw the time factor!

Good looking turns there in your photos.

Dang!

3/27/09 7:14am

bobS

Ari- It was good to see you and Rob up there too.
I met you skinning up there last April (I think) when we had that super light pow. If I remember correctly you and Rob got first tracks down the Slot while we headed to the Crooked.

3/27/09 7:11am

Kevin Steffa

Thanks for the invite, and a great day out!

A few corrections, the road number is 4096 - easy to remember, it is 2^12

Definitely will be an easier approach next month with a little more melted out on the road and more visible ground on the 'purgatory' section of trail to 3000'. I was surprised to be able to skin as much of the lower route as we did. However, it is remarkable that there was no evidence of storm damage to either road or trail, no additional blo...

3/27/09 7:02am

Ari

Looks like we missed out! Nice meeting you guys.

3/27/09 6:48am

Marcus

The voice in the wilderness returns -- look forward to reading your TRs again.

3/27/09 6:39am

Andrew Carey

Welcome back! How far south did you go on the motorcylce? funky bags. BTW I got a F650GS

3/27/09 4:37am

mcohen

Mark,
Wow, I was touring yesterday wondering where you were. I was headed home from Baker backcountry @ 3:50. Sorry to have missed you.

Since you've been gone we've had a baby, toured less, but smiled even more. Drop me a note so we can catch up.

Mike (and Pamela and Piper).

3/27/09 4:19am

ron j

Nice to have you back, Mark.
We missed your pithy graphiology ;)

Guess that lottery win wasn't as big as I'd imagined, eh? I expected you to be gone for at least another year or two ::)

For those of you that don't yet know or recall what a live wire, a virtual bundle of jangled nerves, that Mark can be, just take a gander at him during a typical day of his recent travels:

3/27/09 3:52am

Thanks for the report, I'm looking forward to some pictures, gotta add this one to my Mt. Loop list.

3/27/09 3:49am

russ

Mark - welcome back to the PNW and skiing. Funny timing - while touring yesterday, we ran into a couple of Baker skiers and someone commented that they hadn't seen posts from you in a long time. Again, welcome back!

3/27/09 3:43am

davidG

March 26, 2009, Dawn Patrol at Hyak

Perhaps the most finely nuanced TR of the season ;D

3/27/09 3:40am

Snoqualmonix

author=CoachingEndurance.com link=topic=12823.msg53451#msg53451 date=1238164946]
i'm a dork, i've got an altimeter. we got 2,000 in 3 laps - 2x of a bout 500 ft and one all the way down.

;D Nah', just motivated!

3/27/09 2:07am

Andrew Carey

Ski touring w/ 3 month old up Hyak. March 21

Grandma and 6-wk old grandson in chest pack telemarking on Mazama Ridge:

He learned to like snow:

3/27/09 12:29am

Andrew Carey

Mar 26, 2009, Mt. Rainier, Paradise

author=Robie link=topic=12826.msg53436#msg53436 date=1238120010]
Crunch time Andy, Bigger skis ,better technique or more din ? ;) We better be quiet about this after all our recent posts . Actually I'm quite jealous and wish my skis were coming off. I'm nursing a sore back. looking forward to doing a light weight spring tour with you.

Yeah, not the best conditions for geezers with bad back (I almost didn't go...

3/27/09 12:20am

CoachingEndurance.com

26 Mar 2008, Phantom dawn patrol

awesome photo!

3/26/09 11:57pm

CoachingEndurance.com

March 26, 2009, Dawn Patrol at Hyak

i'm a dork, i've got an altimeter. we got 2,000 in 3 laps - 2x of a bout 500 ft and one all the way down.

3/26/09 11:42pm

Kyle Miller

26 Mar 2008, Phantom dawn patrol

Nice to meet you if only for a split second ;)

3/26/09 5:13pm

Snoqualmonix

March 26, 2009, Dawn Patrol at Hyak

Right on! I was out for the brunch patrol up Hyak to head over to Catherine and Radio for a few hours, must have been your signatures I saw.

Did you all do two laps? If not, sorry to burst your bubble, but Hyak frontside is only about 1100' give or take a few lines.

That not so fun crust down low turned in to not as fun mashed by 1430.

3/26/09 4:10pm

Telemon

Barometer Mt (Baker Area) February 20, 2009

I had a nice view of Barometer Mountains and environs today from Herman Saddle. I'll post a TR tomorrow.

3/26/09 3:07pm

Dave S.

12/31 - 1/4 Ymir Yurt, BC

Wow, I had no idea that video was on youtube. My wife is famous. We did a fair bit of skiing out there. The terrain is outstanding. On the way back to the car it was snowing like crazy. Our snowmobile driver pulled over at a couple of places and let us make powder turns between switchbacks... Very nice... Then he picked us up again at the bottom.
I'll go back...Eventually.

3/26/09 1:40pm

Koda

Mar 26, 2009, Mt. Rainier, Paradise

I could not resist letting Ron have all the midweek fun, so I skipped work today to get tracks here with the freshies that fell this week. Lots of fun, the first few runs were nice, but by noon it thickend up quickly, was able to make 1 more run in good snow before calling it quits.

3/26/09 1:17pm

Gary Vogt

Dorothea & I did the little loop to Glacier Vista & down Edith Basin today. Multiple and variable crusts as Andy described. There was a recent crown fracture on the SE side of Pan Pt about 8" deep and a couple hundred feet long.

3/26/09 12:41pm

Robie

Mar 26, 2009, Mt. Rainier, Paradise

Crunch time Andy, Bigger skis ,better technique or more din ? ;) We better be quiet about this after all our recent posts . Actually I'm quite jealous and wish my skis were coming off. I'm nursing a sore back. looking forward to doing a light weight spring tour with you.

3/26/09 11:13am

skierguitarist

Happy Valley, Terrace March 11, 2009

NICE!

3/26/09 10:20am

ema

Barometer Mt (Baker Area) February 20, 2009

Just happened across this post. The tour with Darin was spectacular and one which I hope to repeat with him. Also, I have dropped the West Face of Barometer Mtn. (can be seen from White Rock, BC.) amongst the old burn (3000' of open slopes/avy paths) to Wells Creek Rd. and a 4-5 mile glide back to Nooksack Falls and HWY 542. It was pretty cool crossing the Nooksack at 1800' elevation on skis. The picture is of MattC skiing Barometer with Wells Cr. below.

3/26/09 9:59am

pdxsteve

Ski touring w/ 3 month old up Hyak. March 21

Nice tree skiing. where were you? PM me (?) or just give me a general area to search.

Unless it's top secret.... :P

I registered just to to find out. Beautiful pictures!

3/26/09 1:05am

melchap

Nice work! It's good to get them started young. ;) Hopefully Emma will share your passion when she grows up.

3/25/09 1:12pm

shanevg

March 8, 2009, - Bear Glacier Stewart

LeeL, love your trip reports of the Stewart area. It is a place I've been looking at to explore both in the summer and winter. I hear there are a lot of mountain goats in the area that you can see in the winter. Did you guys happen to see any mountain goats while you were there?

3/25/09 10:38am

rong

March 25, 2009, Skitntind (Tromso)

Steve....... I was working. Remember, I'm an athlete!

David, Yes.

3/25/09 9:39am

trees4me

Shames March 10, 2009

great shots and looks like nice terrain! I've always wanted to go to terrace and smithers. Way to get after it!

3/25/09 8:18am

savegondor

looks lovely!

3/25/09 7:33am

steve_f