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Sorry you've gone ill!  How much longer are you travelling?

Your friend has some odd personal records, but excellent taste in ski terrain :)

Has anyone got an update on this route since we got all this new snow (march 25th)? What about the bottom levels as you descend to 542? Sufficient snow coverage to ski?

The person at #10 is Geoff Cram.

In 1999, Valenties Day I finally convinced my old man to come to Mount Baker for the weekend. The conditions were stellar. My brother, Old man, and Ben Manfredi went out to the BC every single fun for 2 days straight. In fact, I broke the low trail out there through about a foot or so of new snow the previous day.

When the avi calved off, we had all just skied out to the bottom just escaping with mere seconds. I went back up and we all joined the probe line. Along with another guy on...

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How about an future commemoration of an anniversary of the 10th Mountain Division's (actually the precursor 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment) training stint at Paradise back in 1942?

"Oh give me skis and some poles and klister
And let me ski way up on Alta Vista.
You can take your showshoes and burn them, sister
And everywhere I go you'...

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...long live Zoom!

It still lives - curiosity piqued by one of Lowell's presentations, I decided to see if one could still buy it. It tastes ok, if bland, and expands significantly more than oatmeal in one's stomach. Oh for the days when cereal manufacturers would sponsor amateur backcountry skiers...

Matt - thanks for the video.  That was a good time.  We will get it next time. 

Hey Matt,
Great touring with you on Sunday.  Hope we can get out there again.  I really enjoyed your pics and video. 

We may try to go out again tomorrow or Friday if conditions look good.  Let me know if you're interested.



Mark

Marcus, I don't know how you did it, but you painted me green via a tr.  Nice trip!  I'm jealous - and that's just from the lodge info!  Glad you guys got some whooping snow! ;)

Thanks for the report and leading the way. I toured up there with friends Joe & Kristy on Sunday. We encountered some heavy snowfall and whiteout conditions on the way up, but that at least gave us slightly more dust-on-crust to work with before hitting the avy debris and glop further down. The luge run down the Commonwealth drainage was quick and surprisingly fun.

For those interested, our pit at the lower part of the slope showed said dust on top of a crust that sat bonded atop...

Lowell your memory is not that bad, it is Alison Kilroy at 1, far left (third from left in the re-enactment shot).  It was great fun, thanks for giving me a reason to dig out the old stuff!  Beautiful day.
I'm posting a couple of casual photos (of Lowell and I think its Jorie and Gary).  If anyone wants a higher quality version (around 1mg), pm me.
I'd be happy to ski with any of you any time!

alison

What fun !
Lowell we don't care about your short term memory just keep giving us more of the long term !
Thanks

My first post for a very nice "ski de randonnee-alpinisme" tour.  Missing the skyline and a summit shot.  Here they are.  Great company!

Thanks so much for hosting this Lowell. I enjoyed the history lessons, meeting new friends and old... the video was great fun (Zoom!) and the mild nature of the ski itself made for a perfect "recovery tour", not to mention a whole lot of fun to ski in a skirt. Jorie, I'll join you for the spring fashion show... :D

Here are some more photos from the trip.  Lisa also wanted me to add that the trip was a FULL body workout and I completely agree.  I actually snapped a BD expedition pole in half on "one leg run" due to an accident involving me+pole+ski+very aggressive snow snake  >:(

http://gallery.me.com/climberdave#100153
I'll add commentary to the photos later.

enjoy,
cd

There was another huge slide that came out of the Herman Saddle area. We were checking out the carnage for sight seeing purposes and ran into a guy who said he'd been skiing the area for 25 years and had never seen anything like it.

Thanks for the TR.  Over the weekend, I saw a portion of a TV program on Skiing in the Northwest and there was a segment on Caribou Mtn. Lodge.  Looks like a beautiful backcountry lodge.

Great stuff, thanks for the report Lowell.  Wish I had made it.

Hey Matt, nice seeing you and your buddies up there.  Our ski down the Slot Couloir was a pleasent suprise after the conditions were had observed on the skin up.  The snow on the north facing slope was not sun affected and there were some good turns.  Hope you guys get it next time.

Dave

Great trip and pictures!  I skied the cannon couloir last year about this time, but came up from the stewart lake trailhead.  Did you ski out that way, or did you cross the river lower down?  I like the route you took much better...

You got it Tim. You may like a couple of others I took. Check out the picasa link if you still have it. I put some pics up today. e-mail me if you don't have it still. VML will be on there as well.

Hey folks!  I'm trying to figure out how to post a few more higher-rez pics, but may have to get Dave to do it cuz he started the thread.  Good times and turns had by all! 

Lisa, great skiing Red with you guys on Saturday, and sorry we skipped out on the after party.  I guess that slogging through the mashed potatos and getting drenched by the gravy just really took it out of us.  We must have been spoiled by the high and dry Wallowa experience!