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Thanks David!  Humbling reminder for all of us who "bridge" the route regularly "in season".

Sounds awesome! Thanks for the write up. Wish I'd been there!

Fantastic! Thanks for sharing.

Awesome awesome awesome! Bring on new snow!
How far did you have to ride your bike? Did you pedal in your boots?
Thanks for the photos!

You guys will stop at nothing.  Almost ten years ago, I gave up on my personal TAY streak after almost 11 years when sunset on Sept 30 found my partner and I descending the massive frozen cups on the rollover on the top back corner of Table 15 days after one of my knee operations.  Glad it's still all about the fun for you two.  We awakened to 16" at the stake at the ski area today.  Thanks Ullr.  Here we go.

Funny story...
After skiing the postage stamp on Sunday, we stopped for a beer at Chair 9 in Glacier and asked the bartender if she knew of any low hanging fruit besides the postage stamp. She advised us to refer to Turns All Year, that's where people talk about what's going on.
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That spot is one of the easiest go-to's in the region! Always a laugh to think that I drive nearly 3 hours each way for 10 minutes of walking and 3 minutes of skiing. Good on ya! The "sickness" is a healthy one, especially when the Streak has a life of it's own...

Over the decade plus years of reading your trip reports, your writing is enjoyable plus the tables, maps and photos. ;)

Thanks, Amar! Thank you for taking the time to write this up, too -- it's apt to help future parties avoid the same experience.

I haven't been up there since August, but there were a couple of crevasses that appeared as sags at roughly Amar's marked location. It was the earliest in any year (since ~2005) that I've seen sign of cracks in the Snowfield.

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Several factors contributed to the good outcome of this incident, some of them purely lucky and others not so at all. Chief among the latter set was the remarkable ability of this inexperienced party to self-rescue themselves from the crevasse, which had to have just been determination and adrenaline. And obviously they had made an effort to properly prepare themselves for the alpine environment of Rainier, by buying and carrying appropriate g...

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Awesome...keep em coming..keep getting after the good life!!

Thank you. I wonder what I will think of regular winter resort skiing after these past few months. I am guessing, I will be wishing it was like I was back on the glacier not having to worry about dodging other skiers/riders. Unless I am on a closed course or racing, I will now have to limit myself to early...

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Heels still free
Thanks for the beautiful pics, Mike, and as always, the STOKE
Bring it ON!

Pete we need to make another ski trip together!

That was a great day to be out!  Way better than expected  ;D
You must have been the two headed up as we were headed down.

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author=Don Heath link=topic=40924.msg162448#msg162448 date=1537463074]
He lost his head with a little fresh snow
His uptracks soft, down turns sublime
Soon found his head but lost his mind.

Nice verse for someone with such Rusty Knees....
BTW Don, what happened with your accident last spring?  Fractures?  Surgery?  Blown TAY streak?  I have heard nada, except you said once you are back in action.

What happened to my head???

Not bad for September. Well worth the crossing.

Thanks for the post Mike!  Great pictures, as always.  Especially as I'm sitting here chained to my desk.

I've been fighting a cold, but if I get over it I'll try to make it up this weekend.

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75 km on firm suncups! Lolz you gotta admire that chutzpah  :D

I have had more satisfying ski moments skiing this hillside this year alone than ALL the times I have skied at any resort the past 35 years! Conditions were so good, I had to make a revisit again yesterday. As long as we do not have a major heat wave, Heliotrope should be sufficient to provide f...

Thanks for sharing your adventure!

Impressive! I didn't think there would be snow this late.

Thanks for the stoke!

Great report, and appreciated the insight into your thoughts and decision making process.  That NE couloir of Castle looks nice, the Whitetail a little too sketchy for me in those conditions.

It was actually quite crowded, but most people seemed to ignore us. A few stared for a few moments, and I talked to them about what we were doing, but nobody approached us. That's pretty strange for Artist Point, where I'm frequently stopped by incredulous tourists.

I remember unpacking the car one early July, when the snow still towered twenty feet over the parking lot, and having a woman ask me if one could still ski. I had to look at her dumbly and say "It depends o...

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