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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?
Question? You mention decending skiers right of terminus.Is the left or east side of terminus still doable as well?
Nice one, you guys. I was wondering if that would be in the kind of shape you found.
Nice Work Amar and Julie....sounds great!
Jerry, Thanks for the great trip and the fantastic scenery. Broz.
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...
Cool. I did the crooked/slot combo before and what a great combination it is! And your trip just attests to it further. There is nothing better than a corn/pow/sun weekend.
Love the blue in the pics. We sure haven't seen that for awhile.
Love the blue in the pics. We sure haven't seen that for awhile.
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. :)
more pics, can't figure out thumbnail option
more pics, i cant get the tumbnail thing figured out
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.
I appreciate the comments chrism and mw888888, thank you. A couple of folks have shared comments with me in personal correspondence and I thought that I should add, to ease any possible concerns a bit, that the family member involved was a beloved pet. All loss is hard.
Thanks,
John
Thanks,
John
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...
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...
Thanks for the great trip and great pics JW and Jen and Congrats! Even the cornices held and only a tad of sluffing on your epic shot out of the top chute! See you next time.
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
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
Here's a pic of the fearless Trumpetsailor high atop Fawn Peak
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Probaly you were shocked to see the difference of this years snow pack Eh?
No kidding Robie, I skied the same lines in November and hardly recognised them...wow, gonna be a good spring! See you soon I hope
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.
Sorry we didn't stop to say hello but we were on a misson.
John - thank you for the beautiful post. Your words are not lost on me.
Sometimes the most profound truths are the simplest ones; I know myself that I try and reflect upon the joys of the air we breath, the simple lives we lead. There is grace, honor, and happiness in a life lived consciously.
As-Salaam Alaikom
Sometimes the most profound truths are the simplest ones; I know myself that I try and reflect upon the joys of the air we breath, the simple lives we lead. There is grace, honor, and happiness in a life lived consciously.
As-Salaam Alaikom
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...
Nice report!
The snow plastered up the old-growth is really interesting.
What is "Swede Heaven"? It must have something to do with festering fish...? Does valhalla translate to "big, rotten barrel of stewed and rotting cod chunks"? Just curious.
The snow plastered up the old-growth is really interesting.
What is "Swede Heaven"? It must have something to do with festering fish...? Does valhalla translate to "big, rotten barrel of stewed and rotting cod chunks"? Just curious.
Here's Phil skiing the West Face with Whitehorse & Three Fingers in the background.
Wise words, John. Thanks for sharing.
Yup... thanks for being the Olympic road conditions scout!
It is probably the same. I am not aware of others around there and I wasn't paying that close of attention. Are you thinking of access to Constance?
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?
Well we were a long way from the hotsprings (also they gated the road at Dingford Crk since you left) . I think we were getting pretty close to the parking area for the middlefork traihead before we turned around due to clearance issues.
Hey man good to hear from you. I enjoyed your trip reports from Jackson.
OK, Ron, you opened that can of worms - how far did you get?!?
And I think we would have made it this year (it's your ball game now, buddy!)
And I think we would have made it this year (it's your ball game now, buddy!)
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.
Here's some photos from the trip. Had a great time! Thanks for waiting at the top....hehe
-Jon
-Jon
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.
Good to hear you're getting out as normal, Ron. I think there was a time when you would have thought twice about the waterfall and now you do it almost blindfolded - good show!
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.
Look fun. Any hint on snow conditions?
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A spring ski-crampon-assisted tour in via a route approximating the PCT from Snoqualmie Pass could also get you into that area via a spectacular route.
Yes, that's part of the Snoqualmie Haute Route. A possibly quicker way in (but not as spectacular) would be to ski up Gold Creek, climb to Joe Lake, and then carry on over Chikamin Peak.
Larry, thanks for the weekly update, interesting cornices. I found several unusual huge wind formations today near Snoqualmie Pass, the result of big wind and big snows the past couple weeks I suppose. Nice sunrise, thanks for sharing.
Fantastic report. Thanks for taking the time to get such great photos.
Keep posting!
Keep posting!
FWIW, A hasty check of alpenglow.org did not turn up a reference to Lemah on the Alpine Lakes page.
A spring ski-crampon-assisted tour in via a route approximating the PCT from Snoqualmie Pass could also get you into that area via a spectacular route.
A spring ski-crampon-assisted tour in via a route approximating the PCT from Snoqualmie Pass could also get you into that area via a spectacular route.
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What a great pic! (the third one)
You have certainly increased my desire to get to Chikamin and Lehah one of these days, from the side pictured, and while snow still on the ground. Might make a nice April-ish trip, a 2-1/2 dayer with a campout at Spectacle Lake.
Wolfs, I'm just looking at the full res picture again, plus the even sharper original, and it loo...
Lee, A wonderful week at FM. A few years ago I had a similar memory at FM. A special place.
What a great pic! (the third one)
You have certainly increased my desire to get to Chikamin and Lehah one of these days, from the side pictured, and while snow still on the ground. Might make a nice April-ish trip, a 2-1/2 dayer with a campout at Spectacle Lake.
You have certainly increased my desire to get to Chikamin and Lehah one of these days, from the side pictured, and while snow still on the ground. Might make a nice April-ish trip, a 2-1/2 dayer with a campout at Spectacle Lake.
Days 5, 6 and 7 - http://www.leelau.net/2008/fairymeadows2008_02/day567/
Day 4 - http://www.leelau.net/2008/fairymeadows2008_02/day4/
Day 3 - click here for more http://www.leelau.net/2008/fairymeadows2008_02/day3/
Day 2 - click here for more http://www.leelau.net/2008/fairymeadows2008_02/day2/
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Thanks SG and Marcus!
Those pics were taken with my new 12 mp Cannon Elph with image stabilization. It's quite an amazing little camera.
Here's a full resolution crop from that last pic that gives an idea of the detail in can capture, even in low light, hand held with just the auto settings, flash off. For reference, Chikamin is about 13 miles away. Notice the sn...