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author=Joedabaker link=topic=10513.msg42630#msg42630 date=1214880183">
...We tried to wear Scotty down the day before so he would be at what Mad Dog calls, "Geezer Pace" for your tour.

Nice try, Joe. You did manage to get him whining about blisters on his feet, but that didn't seem to slow him and Stewie down much.

I can't recall when I've enjoyed a tour so much with such a large number (9) of partic...

7/1/08 3:25am

DaveSesski

Metal Dome then the bikepark June 28, 2008

Rob and I also skied the chutes on Saturday around 12:15. It looks as if almost everyone we saw up there posted. We started out at 3:30 am from the camper and took about an hour hike to get up to Cold Springs. It was really hot on the climb up Pikers Peak. After skiing the chutes (what a great line) and having lunch, we ran into two other skiers looking for the path out. We skied down the Morrison Creek drainage and found that a very direct route back home. It was a pleasure not havin...

7/1/08 2:54am

Scotsman

Hi LeeL , nice TR. Read your more detailed report and I have a question, why is the hut such a garbage area? Don't the commercial operations using it clean up?
Nice hat BTW!

7/1/08 2:37am

Nate R

June 28, Summerland to Fryingpan and Whitman Crest

Hey Stugie, looks like y'all had pretty excellent conditions, too. It is more broken up, but boy, the coverage is still pretty amazing for the end of June. It's telling that we were more concerned about sloughing on the Roman Wall than ice.

Thanks, Doug & Marcus! I (heart) Mt Baker, especially when it treats us this well.

7/1/08 1:33am

Jim Oker

The guided party of 11 we spoke with at the end of the day must have done a different route - they described a fair scramble up a bit of a bowling alley with lots of party-induced rockfall (which was easy to visualize from our choss-perch on the Whitman Crest). I'll have to head up there with you sometime!

7/1/08 12:52am

Marcus

Nice job guys!

7/1/08 12:38am

BeckyB

Sadly, I couldn't join in on the Baker-y goodness on Sunday but I was glad to see Pete was still thinking of me on the summit. Thanks honey! :)

6/30/08 11:02pm

fresh

Sounds like a great trip, Nate! The Pete and Becky summit photo is classic:

Hope you're doing well!
-Doug

6/30/08 4:29pm

uncleben

We skied the SW Chutes on Sat. as well. Not sure who on here I might have seen up there, but maybe we crossed paths. We left the car at 5:30 am, hiked along the road to Cold Springs, more or less followed the flagged route up to the ridge and the lunch counter. The long slog up to Piker's Peak just about killed me so we called it good there at about 12:30. Hung out with several other skiers and climbers for an hour or so before heading down, even though there was no...

6/30/08 4:05pm

russ

Avalanche Glacier, Mt Adams, June 29, 2008

Way to go Kyle! Looking at the Emmons from the Frying Pan Glacier on Saturday it looks like it was starting to break up - Way to sneak one in.

6/30/08 3:16pm

cascadesfreak

Heya Tony- great to meet you at the false summit! Glad you had great descent. Good trip write-ups and pics! The SW chutes were nice as well.

6/30/08 3:11pm

cascadesfreak

Heya Silas - missed you by a day on the chutes; we (Carter, Drew, and I) camped near treeline Saturday night at skied the chutes at about noon on Sunday. Great corn on a firm base in the lower portion of the chutes, but somewhat of a mushy base in the upper portion (didn't seem to have refroze much on Sat. night, and the base seemed more consolidated down lower). Pics posted here.

The sky had been clear...

6/30/08 2:05pm

Buck

I agree. The way was virtually a straight line on the map, making for an easy compass bearing, and saved us a bunch of time. It is more challenging than the road in route finding, but if you plan on taking the drainage back to the car (fun bonus skiing) if is wise to climb the drainage first.

6/30/08 1:09pm

Stugie

Wow, way more broken than when we hit the Easton earlier this month!

6/30/08 1:02pm

Nate R

No problem, and thanks. Here are Kirsten's and my photos:
http://www.evilfungus.com/trogs/easton08.html#photos

Looking up the Easton:

Kirsten passing around seracs on the Easton:

Pete skiing past seracs:

6/30/08 12:53pm

Kyle Miller

Avalanche Glacier, Mt Adams, June 29, 2008

author=Joedabaker link=topic=10512.msg42629#msg42629 date=1214879268]

That lightning storm was nasty, I thought it was going to blow a window in my house.
That must have been nerve racking walking out!
What did you use for boots for the climb?
Joe

Thanks Joe
Yeah the Lightning storm was crazy and it had us surrounded. The average strike was less then a mile away and there was more then a hundred strikes. While...

6/30/08 12:53pm

TonyM

Was fairly beat when I posted this last night and probably didn't do the ski tour justice. The entrance is about 150 yards north of the SW Chutes entrance. Many start the ski down the SW chutes from nearly the same point a the entrance as this ski. But rather than tend SW, you tend more north down a gentle slope. It's committing in that you would not want to change your mind only to skin back up several hundred VF to the entrance of the SW Chutes should you decide this one wasn�...

6/30/08 12:02pm

jeff_s

June 28, 2008, Sticking to the Tatoosh

Robie & Andy,

Thanks for another great Stickman tour of the Tatoosh.

Looking forward to the 4th.

6/30/08 11:53am

The_Snow_Troll

June 28 Interglacier...again

We too skied the SW Chutes on Saturday. Left Morrison Creek @ 2:30a and went up the Morrison Creek trail / drainage. I found this way pretty straight forward and it didn't seem like a bushwhack at all, in fact, I think I only got hit in the face by a couple branches. Can it really be a bushwhack if the Devils Club and Slide Alder is still covered up? We were able to navigate it by headlamp having chatted with some guys in the parking lot and guessed on the route from...

6/30/08 11:51am

scottb505

Thanks for the beta, Andyski - went up on Sunday and had similar conditions. Snout was the best I've skied - perrrfect corn on hardpack.

6/30/08 11:51am

jeff_s

June 29, Chair Peak Basin

Greg & Jim,

Thanks for a great trip. The crash course in debris skiing was very enlightening. I hope you both found the waterfall crevasse rescue as educational and entertaining as I did. The picture is definitely among my favorite ski action photos.

6/30/08 11:43am

Joedabaker

Very nice read Zap,
Must have been fun!
Those trees that spring out can be freaky, glad there was minimal harm done.
We tried to wear Scotty down the day before so he would be at what Mad Dog calls, "Geezer Pace" for your tour.
Thanks for the Tatoosh update.
Joe

6/30/08 11:27am

Joedabaker

Good job Kyle,
One more to go...
That lightning storm was nasty, I thought it was going to blow a window in my house.
That must have been nerve racking walking out!
What did you use for boots for the climb?
Joe

6/30/08 11:18am

Joedabaker

Thanks Silas,
Good timing, we were just discussing your approach, not having done this before. Your input is very handy. Did you carry hiking boots and switch to ski boots?
Thanks,
Joe

6/30/08 10:52am

silaswild

June 28, Summerland to Fryingpan and Whitman Crest

author=Nate R link=topic=10517.msg42612#msg42612 date=1214863032]
drove to about 1/4 mile from the trailhead

Thanks for this information, sounds like you had nice weather and good snow.

6/30/08 10:50am

silaswild

author=Jim Oker link=topic=10495.msg42514#msg42514 date=1214727473]
Multiple parties out for a climb of little Tahoma. I have no desire after seeing the rock on the Whitman crest and talking to folks from one climbing party.

The easiest route up Little Tahoma actually is quite solid, and especially nice in early season like now when the snow goes nearly to the summit!

6/30/08 10:44am

silaswild

6/23-28 Bend Area (Broken Top and North Sister)

author=Buck link=topic=10490.msg42613#msg42613 date=1214864082]
You can get to Morrison Creek Campground -- I believe that is 3.5 miles from Cold Springs. With a GPS, map and compass, and not minding a bushwhack, I recommend the direct line up the drainage, leaving from the campground. In fact, a trail I was not previously aware of takes you for at least 1/4 of a mile before being lost in the snow.

IMHO it is easier to walk the road f...

6/30/08 10:02am

Stugie

FANTASTIC photos! Wow. I really like the bear claw marking on the tree.

6/30/08 9:40am

skimtner

Lassen, Sat.

Thanks bro - I guess they do go North, because I don't see them down where I live Reno/Tahoe. Thanks alot, enjoy the turns! Rob

6/30/08 9:07am

Robie

6/23-28 Bend Area (Broken Top and North Sister)

nice report ZAPPO!
That is a nice run down Sunbeam with lots of variation.
good thing that Hillary is ok. this is the first year that ive really paid a lo tof attention to those saplings that get buried perhaps because of MAd Dog's pruning.
Anyone else reading this , beware the creek drainage and the culvert at the bottom which has troll looking for victims!

6/30/08 9:04am

jtack

Thanks for the wonderful pictures. jt

6/30/08 7:14am

Buck

You can get to Morrison Creek Campground -- I believe that is 3.5 miles from Cold Springs. With a GPS, map and compass, and not minding a bushwhack, I recommend the direct line up the drainage, leaving from the campground. In fact, a trail I was not previously aware of takes you for at least 1/4 of a mile before being lost in the snow.

Nice work posting photos Zeno, I'm way too much of a slacker.

6/30/08 6:04am

JMor

Was very nice seeing everyone at breakfast, glad you had a good tour and that Hillary escaped the wrath of those hidden "dragon's". Will look forward to seeing photos.

6/30/08 5:45am

Scotsman

June 28-29, Mt Rainier, Fuhrer Finger

Thanks Zap. The "other group" was following Stewie whose route finding has yet to develop beyond the " straight up" approach! ;D

As you say, execellent snow conditions given the temperatures. A very nice tour with a distinct rocky summit to tick off.

Great company, whose got the pictures?

6/30/08 5:10am

Stugie

Nice job. I like your pic with the Wilson below.

6/30/08 5:07am

Stugie

Congrats dude and glad you guys made it out safely. I hate work. I'm hella jealous, but I guess that comes with the terrain we want to cover. :( I have an old "Summit" magazine dated May 1963 that gives some great illustrations for how to avoid lightning strikes should one find themselves caught in inclement weather on a mountain. ;) Call me about this weekend bro. peace.

6/30/08 3:21am

Marcus

Nice job Kyle -- that's a fun ski.

6/30/08 3:04am

skierguitarist

June 28, 2008, South Sister

Way to go and yes great pics.... thanks!!!

6/30/08 3:03am

stoudema

Nice work - wish I were there, but I had other obligations. Interesting stuff about the avy near all the ski tracks. Sounds like the south route is done now until next year. I'm already looking forward to heading back. Let's get some July turns next week.......

6/30/08 3:02am

Scotsman