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Where is the slot/crooked?

Hi Steve,  I was wondering when you guys were going to Japan.  Looks like good winter for skiing.  That little shrine on a peak is so classic Japanese, those things are everywhere!

Keep posting,  I may be skiing there someday.

Wow nice pictures. I'm glad you all found good conditions up there.

I don't know Amar, that rendezvous sounds fateful to me.

Great report  and photos as always!

Thanks for the photos.  I have been wondering about the Mountians down there:)

You forgot to mention the push up to Squammish and the lovely night's rest behind the Save-on-Foods.  Dump trucks and bums made pretty good alarm clocks.

Or what about the hitch hiking between parking lots and forgotten gear? All and all, a gear cluster f---.  Bring chains, and wires, and pins to this place, I'm beginning to think that these glaciers eats shoes and boards... not to mention sick couloirs and U shaped canyons. 

Added a few of the pho...

Very good Amar! Julie is kinda all over the place including Everest.
Question? You mention decending skiers right of terminus.Is the left or east side of terminus still doable as well?

Nice Work Amar and Julie....sounds great!

It was a fantastic day, just like being in Paradise:-D.  The "Geezers" started out with the energetic younger crowd, after getting farther, and farther in the rear, we opted to not pass up the good snow to find better.  Ron and I had our very own all day "first tracks" on the front side while the JW and Jen group toured the back side.  We also had great snow and lots of fresh turns on every slo...

Thanks for sharing, John. If I were the party member you mention, I would appreciate the report. All loss is indeed hard. I was in some ways relieved recently to see a psychologist talking about how the loss of a pet is quite often just as tough as losing human family members. Relieved simply because of how tough losing my own dog was a few years back (within a week of losing my dad, so I had far too good a comparison). Life is indeed rich, but highs cannot exist without lows.

Nice trip report. We need more snow!!!  Giddy Giddy Gulch is the ticket right now. Hey I was wondering do you have a dog? I think I saw you at the parking lot. I was up there Sat, Sun and Monday. Let's get together and carve some turns. Happy Skiing.  :)

You win! :).

It has been my pleasure scouting around out there. My folks moved to Poulsbo which equals free babysitting for me. I hope to do many more trips in those woods. It will be fun to see a TR of Constance. I will probably make that trip one of these days myself.

Bryan - great to meet up with you guys up there. Great day! It'd cost far more than a million dollars to get a driveway up to a home up there. I hope that nobody ever will. Once I get my photos linked to the web, I'll send a PM.

Pablosan - Straight down the center. My full-sidecut trimmings, ~13mm at the widest, put the grippiest patch right under my foot. In order to provide the tiniest amount of tip retention, I flopped ~3" or so of the skinniest bit directly over th...

Love the microskins idea!  I've been thinking of trying this too, using some old skins.  Where on the ski did you stick the slivers?

thanks

Trumpetsailor it was nice to meet you and to enjoy the summit with you and my buddy. Indeed a spectacular summit with million dollar views. Thanks for the props on our avoiding your previous tracks, not many snowshoers I've heard leave ski tracks alone.
Here's a pic of the fearless Trumpetsailor high atop Fawn Peak

I was wondering about you guys.Lauire and I drove by Tall timbers and saw a flock of your cars there. Pics look like it was a gooder. Probaly you were shocked to see the difference of this years snow pack Eh?
Sorry we didn't stop to say hello but we were on a misson.

Nice work on the summit ski.  I may have saw you guys (could have been another group though) on the West Crater route from down below as I was up there riding the lifts.  I thought about heading up towards Crater Rock in the morning but a similar day last year didn't yield great "turns."  It was definitely firm and icy up higher on the mile.  About 1:30 I tired of lift riding and took the splitboard out up towards the Palmer for a quick mini-workout.  Interesting to hear about it...

Here's Phil skiing the West Face with Whitehorse & Three Fingers in the background.

Yup... thanks for being the Olympic road conditions scout!

Thanks for the info Ron.... you said the shelter is at 3k, the map shows the Tunnel Ck shelter at around 3700ft.  Is this the same shelter you're talking about?

Hey man good to hear from you. I enjoyed your trip reports from Jackson.

Ha ha, that's great! Mike and I talked about that one over the years but never got around to it. Then just last weekend I was talking to Matt about it as we tried his 4x4 out on the mid fork rd.

Good stamina indeed! Looks like a great tour; what's the rough round-trip distance?  It's good to see all the tour reports lately as well as those of the turnaholics.

Pretty good snow (a few inches of dense powder on top of old snow) from 5400 to maybe 4000. Crusty or mushy below depending on the elevation. On the return, the south facing stuff was very crusty below 5000 feet.