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Good to hear from your camp again. Always inspirational.

"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset."
Crowfoot (of the Blackfoot tribe), 1890.

3/29/09 12:38pm

John Morrow

March 28, 2009, Kendall Trees

Hi Larry,
Sounds like a classic Sasse Ridge Medical Clinic visit! There is so much peace and fulfillment in those solo outings. Glad you got back to it. You sound like your old self.
Thanks for the TR.
Of note: by Saturday the crust was persistent high up on the west/NW slopes of Sasse Mountain. We gave up trying to find some holdover powder at 4400 feet and skied the Howson road back down. Quote of the day, "this sucks, why are we not on our way...

3/29/09 11:34am

cmosetick

I dig the video too!! Great effort filming and post production!

3/29/09 4:24am

ron j

Mar 26, 2009, Mt. Rainier, Paradise

3/28 Skied between Paradise and Narada.
Upper crust was supportable in open areas where the sun had prior access which made skiing in open areas a delight and shaded areas a challenge.
Dumping all day.

3/29/09 3:04am

Erick Heyl

Cannon Mtn. Summit/Couloir via Rat Creek, 3/22/09

when we did it, crossing mtneer cr. was pretty much the crux of the day.
a butt-shimmy across a fallen log in the rain 10 feet above the raging creek and boulders while holding my snowboard. fun stuff.

really nice photo documentation. thanx

3/29/09 12:16am

trees4me

March 28, 2009, Kendall Trees

amazing

someday I'll be in the moving pictures....

Seriously, looks nice, heading up that way tomorrow.

3/28/09 4:40pm

savegondor

March 28, 2009, Kendall Trees

nice vid. what Os and program are you using?

-Jayme

3/28/09 1:17pm

Marcus

Great TR Larry. So sorry about your wife, but I'm glad you're getting your therapies, such as they are.

3/28/09 6:20am

T. Eastman

March 26, 2009, Herman Saddle, Baker backcountry

There's magic in the mountains!

3/28/09 2:25am

Telemon

For those who would enjoy a more complete photographic representation of the trip, check out my post here - http://telemarktalk.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=55925

3/28/09 12:48am

JMor

Welcome back Mark. Will look forward to hearing about your adventures :).

3/27/09 9:58pm

savegondor

pugh awaits.....

3/27/09 3:58pm

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...

...

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