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Thats a b ushel of bush whackin! Looks good, hindsight being what it is I should've gone with ya!
Thanks for the great narrative, pics and data. I was thinking of doing the Van Trump this weekend. How bad is the spot with bridge gone? Is there so much water that a crossing really isn't possible? That must be the bridge a couple hundred yards before comet falls? Thanks Wolfs!
Great skiing with you guys! I look forward to more.
Lordhedgie, I'm glad to hear the surgery went well.
Lordhedgie, I'm glad to hear the surgery went well.
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With luck Snowbell can throw in some photos.
...luck and time. Here are the pictures from the day. I'm sorry not to have edited or captioned them. It is past my bed time.
This tour is still in good shape. Constant snow above Glacier Basin. Minor crevasse...
Robie- apparently everyone really wants to ski with you!
We are all hoping for a quick and speedy recovery for Lordhedgie and look forward to more turns with him in the near future.
Chris
We are all hoping for a quick and speedy recovery for Lordhedgie and look forward to more turns with him in the near future.
Chris
Hey Lisa, nice tour. I'm interested in repeating this one . Can you give some more details on trail-head , length etc. Is it a two day tour or can it be done in a day?
Thanks
Scotty
Thanks
Scotty
Robie, I'm heartbroken. I thought it was me. :-[
You're just a tour slut!
You're just a tour slut!
Also, I think Robie wants to ski with everyone.
Rusty, that's true but i mainly meant it towards Lordhedgie to cheer him on in recovery mode!
Sorry I missed your call. I wasn't getting a phone signal at silver fir. Glad you had a good day!
Hey Chris! I am so jealous. That snow looks fabulous! Glad you guys had such a good time. Good video, and great pictures, except you had too many with that big white thing in the background, surrounded by all that blue stuff. 8) I'm glad to see you get out with another tele buck - Zack I presume.
Also, I think Robie wants to ski with everyone.
Lordhedgie - I look forward to skiing with you when you get back to full strength. G...
Also, I think Robie wants to ski with everyone.
Lordhedgie - I look forward to skiing with you when you get back to full strength. G...
I dunno about being a champ for skiing before the surgery -- I'd rather think that if you're going to have heart surgery, you ought to maximize your fun right before it.
The wound is healing nicely. I'm already feeling a lot better in situations that previously really strained my heart, so I guess that's a good sign.
(I thought Robie wanted to ski with me!)
The wound is healing nicely. I'm already feeling a lot better in situations that previously really strained my heart, so I guess that's a good sign.
(I thought Robie wanted to ski with me!)
Lordhedgie- glad to hear it all went well. Was going to include that all in the tr but decided I would allow you to disclose your surgery on your own- you sure are a champ, going out the day before heart surgery.
Mack- hope we can get as good weather again this weekend
JCR- nice to meet you too (had no idea it was you)
All- thanks for a good time
Robie- you looking forward to skiing with me? I doubt that, I am not as much of a good time as Scottsman i...
Mack- hope we can get as good weather again this weekend
JCR- nice to meet you too (had no idea it was you)
All- thanks for a good time
Robie- you looking forward to skiing with me? I doubt that, I am not as much of a good time as Scottsman i...
Nice work fellas. I have wanted to do that combination for a couple of years. Sounds like you found it in pretty good shape.
Good to meet Trumpetsailer and Will. Glad you guys found some lines over in Mist Park.
I have to second Robie's comment regarding the abundance of snow at lower elevations compared with the relatively dry conditions up higher.
I have to second Robie's comment regarding the abundance of snow at lower elevations compared with the relatively dry conditions up higher.
I ran into you guys at the top of the trail as you were trying to figure out which way Scottsman had headed down with the dog. Glad you had a great trip. I skied up to about 7200ft on Heliotrope that night for a nice sunset view over Bellingham.
I started Monday morning at 0800 and made it to the saddle in about 2 1/2 hours. Good skinning but icy in places.. (thank goodness for ski crampons!). I stopped at the saddle for about hour to let the Roman Wall start to melt and began climbing at...
I started Monday morning at 0800 and made it to the saddle in about 2 1/2 hours. Good skinning but icy in places.. (thank goodness for ski crampons!). I stopped at the saddle for about hour to let the Roman Wall start to melt and began climbing at...
Nice Job, we where on Helitrope ridge on Sunday and admiring the route from the summit.
We talked to a couple of skiers who has come form the summit. Maybe you where one of them.
Ice-climb up and a ski down, best of both worlds. ;D
We talked to a couple of skiers who has come form the summit. Maybe you where one of them.
Ice-climb up and a ski down, best of both worlds. ;D
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We bivied in the campground as I awoke a few times to Scottsman's dog digging a crater above his sleeping head, maybe this is the true cause of his baldness (he did not flinch even once)...
Don't know what he was up to. As you say I woke up with a huge hole dug right next to my head and Chugach sitting beside it staring at me!
Prehaps...
Nice pix and tour, wolfs---esp. the old guy with half a binding. ;)
( I met you at Alpental on the evening of June 20.)
( I met you at Alpental on the evening of June 20.)
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... presume in an effort to go ultra light - decided to leave her boot liners at home
no, just forgot them somehow in my haste to pack. they were different shells to go with my summer ski set up. Didn't even realize it until part way up Chiwawa ???
At least I still got to ski after the work getting in :)
And m...
That same day, we rode the lifts a bit, then I skinned up to Hogsback while my brother Ben and my friend Jeff skinned up to Illumination Saddle. I skied over to join them, then we skied down Zigzag to where the terrain gets more complex, then skinned back up to a point where we could easily traverse back over to the Palmer.
I think the skiers you referred to might have been us, although I saw at least two other skiers up there also.
Pics:
http://picasaweb.google.com/jshefftz...
I think the skiers you referred to might have been us, although I saw at least two other skiers up there also.
Pics:
http://picasaweb.google.com/jshefftz...
As of a few days ago it was still passable through the crevasses right to the far end of Palmer snowfield by winding around a few and using a couple of snowbridges.
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so I'll tell you right now it went okay and I'm still alive.
Excellent! Heal well! :).
Nice job, gang: 3 young bucks, an adolescent dog, and an old goat!
Skierlyles: check your PMs. :)
Skierlyles: check your PMs. :)
This was my pre-heart surgery fun day out, and it was an amazing day. I know a lot of you whom I've skied with have asked me to let you know how my heart surgery went, so I'll tell you right now it went okay and I'm still alive. If I'm lucky I hope to be skiing again in mid-August or so, but I don't think Heliotrope will be so good then.
I tried to take fewer photos since I'd been up there just two days before, but I didn't succeed. I've post...
I tried to take fewer photos since I'd been up there just two days before, but I didn't succeed. I've post...
That upper white river part sure looks nice. It looked like one would have to boot it back up to Palmer, but maybe there is some way to ski out of it before getting to the crevasses?
At least you got it, better late than never. And yes, it was quite good several weeks ago.
Chris
Chris
Thanks for the great report and pictures ! What's incredible about the pictures is the amount of snow in the road pic vs the lack of snow and scree scramble under OB rock to link onto the eastern Flett . Ive never seen it happen in that sequence before. At least in the 15 years ive been glassing it from house in Sumner.
Looks like you guys had some great views!
This is one of those lines I would ski every year.
The line, courtesy of Sergio Verdina
Ryan
The line, courtesy of Sergio Verdina
Ryan
Excellent shots and really nice work! Nice tr and looked like some really epic turns!
Awesome! -- I remmember the scary feeling of looking over the roll on the top of that thing...
damn; those are some phatty green beasts!
damn; those are some phatty green beasts!
Skier 11,053 would be Dave Mc Coy -- just tryin' to figure that one out. Thanks a lot, Robert (from Reno). Hope you got some good turns. Did you see Dana at the end of May, that was some weather that repeated itself from May, '57 ! NWS, Reno Office
Ha. Ha. I may have the time off. I don't have a watch so I was just guessing as I woke up and saw it. How slow time goes when mice are running all over you (they were tugging on the tassle of my hat laying in the rocks of my bivi). I'm sure it was the moon and it turned red as it approached the horizon.
You could ski down a few switchbacks. I'm guessing here, but about 4700-ft to 5k or so.
You could ski down a few switchbacks. I'm guessing here, but about 4700-ft to 5k or so.
Great pics, looks like a really nice trip! Love that panoramic! And in the words of Joedabaker, sounded like some "spicy" trail navigation!
Travertine - If I'm not mistaken, the other "bright red moon" Jason might be referring to could be Jupiter? It's supposed to be out and the next brightest thing to the moon in the night sky near this time of year...
Travertine - If I'm not mistaken, the other "bright red moon" Jason might be referring to could be Jupiter? It's supposed to be out and the next brightest thing to the moon in the night sky near this time of year...
You've got a hat and tent pole and glove in my car. We'll try gettin' you that beer this weekend when you see the other side of "gettin' turns"...;)
We'll nab your 71st and Dan's 5th ??? ??? this next month!
Someone on TGR said those are Glacier Lilies...
We'll nab your 71st and Dan's 5th ??? ??? this next month!
Someone on TGR said those are Glacier Lilies...
In prep for a trip to the very same place this coming weekend, can either of you say how many vf you had to hike to get to skinnable snow?
Too bad about the lost opportunity to photograph the rarely seen other moon at 3 AM, since the mundane regular moon set around midnight on the 13th. ;)
Too bad about the lost opportunity to photograph the rarely seen other moon at 3 AM, since the mundane regular moon set around midnight on the 13th. ;)
Nice photos. I was up there last weekend as well and had a great time. I believe one of those tracks going from halfway down the hogsback is mine. Was having some boot pain so I turned around there but had a really fun ski down the WR. There was already one track down so I just followed it down to the top of Palmer on some really great snow. Just great corn, even at 3:30 pm.
Andy it seems I have hats in Multiple cars but it would be cool to meet up and get some turns. Scott I am at month 70 but only for a few more weeks though ;)and as Im concerned any beer is fine but I do enjoy Steinlager it reminds me of my season in NZ. Joe that log was very spicy as I almost lost my balence at the last second (damn those 60 lbs packs ). As for the first snowboarder to complete them in one season it has been brought up multiple times but I feared being ripped apart by the...
JD,
It was good to meet you all up there. Funny we ran into eachother a year ago, almost on the same date.
Great minds think alike I guess.
It was a great day to be in the hills and the weather and night were wonderful. What caught me was the blazing red moon at around 3am. Too bad I was too lazy to photo.
It was good to meet you all up there. Funny we ran into eachother a year ago, almost on the same date.
Great minds think alike I guess.
It was a great day to be in the hills and the weather and night were wonderful. What caught me was the blazing red moon at around 3am. Too bad I was too lazy to photo.
Nice one! I was up there this morning and it must have been your tracks that I saw on the upper White R Glacier (couldn't see the blood stain, though)
Zigzag Glacier seems like it will be good skiing for at least a while longer - almost full coverage below crater rock, and even though the snow didn't appear to freeze overnight, it was in great condition to ski down. Lots of rockfall up around the crater area in the late morning today. All of the climbing parties...
Zigzag Glacier seems like it will be good skiing for at least a while longer - almost full coverage below crater rock, and even though the snow didn't appear to freeze overnight, it was in great condition to ski down. Lots of rockfall up around the crater area in the late morning today. All of the climbing parties...
Congrats, man. That approach looks burley. I think I've got your hat in my car still, if you want it back we can probably arrange something.
-Andrew
-Andrew
Way to get after it. I am heading to the Dakobed Range with a few friends soon and your trip report (along with Monika's) have got me stoked. I had to call the family in to see the avi lillies ski shot. It seems to be the essence of summer skiing. Kudos!
Did you take any photos of Tenpeak?
Did you take any photos of Tenpeak?
I forgot - Monika - I presume in an effort to go ultra light - decided to leave her boot liners at home and with the help of several pairs of socks, balaclavas, mittens, etc around her feet skied the routes without liners - very impressive and without complaining about something that must have been quite a pain...........
Congratulations!
the snow looks near perfect!
the snow looks near perfect!
Walker,
Too bad we couldn't coordinate this weekend. This time of year in my book its all about the ski/hike ratio and you have to choose the areas with easy access and max coverage.
I hit Arapahoe Lakes just south of Radiobeacon from Rollins Pass west side. 20 min hike to the top of up to 1000' lines. I hit 4 runs for a total vert skied in the ballpark of 2500-3000'.
Too bad we couldn't coordinate this weekend. This time of year in my book its all about the ski/hike ratio and you have to choose the areas with easy access and max coverage.
I hit Arapahoe Lakes just south of Radiobeacon from Rollins Pass west side. 20 min hike to the top of up to 1000' lines. I hit 4 runs for a total vert skied in the ballpark of 2500-3000'.
No, bugs except at the trailhead, which you could drive to easily, (the USFS at least up here in the baker lake area is usually about a week behind on assessing snow conditions on the roads, even if the date on the website is listed as current).
I think Monika deserves some style points for skiing the slam sans boot liners :)