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Stugie wrote:
Hey Stugie its all about the STASH WORTHINESS PROTOCOL...
Was truely a Nancy Drew mystery, encountering just about every type of snow on every type of aspect.
Damn ice. I thought I was lighter. Good thing I have the ability to levitate. ;D
Stugie wrote:
Besides saying we were in the Crystal backcountry, snoslut wanted to keep this a bit hush hush.
Hey Stugie its all about the STASH WORTHINESS PROTOCOL...
Was truely a Nancy Drew mystery, encountering just about every type of snow on every type of aspect.
Damn ice. I thought I was lighter. Good thing I have the ability to levitate. ;D
Stugie wrote:
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Great job on the pics and video, Jayme!
What an awesome trip. Beautiful scenery. Saturday was a bit gray, but warm. It was really fun to have "company" out to our little camp and meet some more TAY folk.
Friday I skinned out to meet Jayme and completely underestimated the distance and effort it'd take to get there. I had a harder time trying to find my way out of bounds (easily) than anything else. Had to start skinning from the gondo...
What an awesome trip. Beautiful scenery. Saturday was a bit gray, but warm. It was really fun to have "company" out to our little camp and meet some more TAY folk.
Friday I skinned out to meet Jayme and completely underestimated the distance and effort it'd take to get there. I had a harder time trying to find my way out of bounds (easily) than anything else. Had to start skinning from the gondo...
Oh my gosh, you had to hike out? Rough! We were wondering how you all fared. It sure was fun to meet everybody, what an excellent trip. A highlight of my skiing career thus far... I'd love to ski with any of you again, anytime.
Bluebird 3 of 4 days. see new post and video.
way to get the turns in CO! Nice TR!
I really wanted to join your group on this trip. I have never ventured out to Sing Pass. After following the weather forecasts all week, I made the decision that the potentially poor views would not justify the expense of driving for 3 hours each way and the gondola ticket. I guess that I did not make a wise decision. A friend ,who skied the Singing Pass and Cowboy Ridge on Saturday, had a great day in largely untouched snow and reasonable vis. The only thing missing was the bluebird conditions...
Wow Dan, looks like fun. The crux looks kind of knar. I think it usually fills in later in the year and is skiable, depending on conditions/timing and can be quite fun. I was up on Saturday, and the weather started out nice, but turned poorer around noon with no vis up high. We had planned on possibly heading up towards the Hogsback, but ended up riding the Palmer, whcih was nice. Should be good up there in a few weeks after this week's dump :)
Mount Baker rocked!! There was a ton of blow downs on the trail but the snow and weather conditions were great all day. The ski down was a blast!! I will post my TR soon.
-Mosetick
-Mosetick
hey Greg, thanks! It's all about the touring here. The resort itself only has 1600 vert, a double chair and a T bar. No on-hill accom, sparse I'll tell you - but oh the snow...
The leftovers are rotten . . .
Windblown, breakable crust and a lot of frozen crud. At least from Pan Point. The wind was so strong we stopped and turned around because the snow just wasn't worth the effort. What a disappointment after yesterday's champagne brunch at Chinook.
Windblown, breakable crust and a lot of frozen crud. At least from Pan Point. The wind was so strong we stopped and turned around because the snow just wasn't worth the effort. What a disappointment after yesterday's champagne brunch at Chinook.
Nice pix and report. I used to live in Ketchikan, AK, and knew people who flew to the nearest airport to ski your local pistes. (Shames Mtn.?)However, your nice touring terrain looks very enjoyable! Keep up the good work...
Thompsons had four or five good turns up high (wind protected by trees?) then wind compressed trap crust, ugh! We bailed for the car and got nice stone grinds on the trail, walked the final 600' vertical. Thursday and Friday provided no such bad snow in PowderBowl and north slopes of Naches Peak. Great light powder all three days, good exercise, good friends, no complaints.
Sunday update: good snow this day too, just a bit less of it. Pics attached from Thur...
Sunday update: good snow this day too, just a bit less of it. Pics attached from Thur...
A couple of those turns on Cowboy Mtn were mine. It was pretty fun snow for how much coverage was there.
Silas, Are you using your new Iphone now for real time TR ? Send photos :)
hehe... yeah, guess we live right up here ;) I'll send some your way since it's snowing again here (have to ski trees tomorrow), shucks. On the 21st it was -7 to -3 (C) est (varying with change in altitude) on the 18th there was a slight inversion going on so temps were a little warmer higher. Likely getting down to -10 at night in the alpine when it's clear. A little warmer in town now (about -2 and snowing today).
In Jan you can expect a 4m - 5m HS in the alpine abov...
In Jan you can expect a 4m - 5m HS in the alpine abov...
NWBC'er,
You've got enough snow , send some down to us! ;)
Great pictures, the terrain looks absolutely amazing. How cold is it up there right now and what can I expect in Mid-Jan when I am up there?
You've got enough snow , send some down to us! ;)
Great pictures, the terrain looks absolutely amazing. How cold is it up there right now and what can I expect in Mid-Jan when I am up there?
My brother and I there on lift serve side Crystal 23rd also. Went up via Deer Fly / Iceberg. Also went over to see the new Northway lift top. A lot of different aspects were crusty in one way or another. The chutes right of Northway Pk in particular which you'd think would be immune to both sun and wind had some unpleasant windslab. Better skiing was found in Green Valley particularly north facing edge. But a lot of the elevation gained to ski here was pretty much wasted on way down. Based...
Edit: I added words on conditions and changed the pics.
Overthhills ,
Nice to see you. Congratulations to Tangerine for her 1st year of TAY.May her streak continue. ;D
Nice to see you. Congratulations to Tangerine for her 1st year of TAY.May her streak continue. ;D
1) the dome is middle R top, North Bowl are lines beneath
12) bottom of cherry bowl heading up
40) view the other way
45) view another way (Mt. Kenney - yup, skiable)
55) nearing the top of geronimo bowl
58) deliverance trees (R), N. Bowl (centre), fish & chips (far L)
12) bottom of cherry bowl heading up
40) view the other way
45) view another way (Mt. Kenney - yup, skiable)
55) nearing the top of geronimo bowl
58) deliverance trees (R), N. Bowl (centre), fish & chips (far L)
Thank you thank you guys for great company on an awesome day. Chris, how unfortunate that we missed out on that breakable crust you were so expectant of . . . hey though, all was not lost, I think there were about five turns of such. Of course, we could use some more coverage, but you know you must have graduated as a backcountry Tayer on rock skis when you think to yourself: "Hey, those willows look skiable!" ;D ;D Great day!!!
The few photos I took are <...
The few photos I took are <...
Such a bummer we didn't get the expected trap-crust skiing all day ;) Glad to be able to milk a sunny powder day out of Chinook Pass before the winter closure with a fun group.
Full pics are posted here.
Full pics are posted here.
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Telemon, I'm discovering that the employment thing was vastly overated and got in the way of the " pursuit of happiness", promised to me by the Constitution. You will find the adaptation to mid week ski bum surprisingly easy.
;D
"The pursuit of happiness" is only mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, alas. Sounds like a...
Good turns were had! 7-8" of old fresh with significant surface hoar. Best part was that a stable base is forming on the N and NW aspects. Nice folks on a good slackcountry day.
This is the autumn of milking the extended days in the passes that are usually closed by now....
This is the autumn of milking the extended days in the passes that are usually closed by now....
The point is I still don't know how to ski breakable crust. Hopefully I never will or have to !.
Thanks for the call Chris,
Great tour and good to see Michael and Sidney!
Looks as though others are not seeing the wind pack, maybe it was an illusion? NOT
I like when were removing the skins and every motion seemed to cut another layer of wind pack that made it difficult to keep position on the hill.
Chris mentioned the trail up and it is pretty rocky on the lower approach, really hard to descend slowly to avoid the rocks on the lower portion of the trail.
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Great tour and good to see Michael and Sidney!
Looks as though others are not seeing the wind pack, maybe it was an illusion? NOT
I like when were removing the skins and every motion seemed to cut another layer of wind pack that made it difficult to keep position on the hill.
Chris mentioned the trail up and it is pretty rocky on the lower approach, really hard to descend slowly to avoid the rocks on the lower portion of the trail.
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Glad to hear it was still good! We were guilty of thrashing a bunch of the area last Tuesday. It sounds like it was still good.
So - you think you can ski breakable crust? I want a lesson. After I watch you for awhile...
See you up there!
Don
So - you think you can ski breakable crust? I want a lesson. After I watch you for awhile...
See you up there!
Don
Chris and Joe
Nice seeing you guys yesterday. The wind slab sounds pretty scary. We saw nothing like it up in the Bear Gap area but we were below the ridge in areas more sheltered from wind. Just unconsolidated powder with a nice layer of hoar on the surface. But there were all kinds of people up on the King, some even solo and skiing into avalanche basin . I would think that if there is a slab in Bullion Basin there could be one in Avalanche basin as well. ??? The hoar frost was...
Nice seeing you guys yesterday. The wind slab sounds pretty scary. We saw nothing like it up in the Bear Gap area but we were below the ridge in areas more sheltered from wind. Just unconsolidated powder with a nice layer of hoar on the surface. But there were all kinds of people up on the King, some even solo and skiing into avalanche basin . I would think that if there is a slab in Bullion Basin there could be one in Avalanche basin as well. ??? The hoar frost was...
That kind of talk is starting to sound inspiring! If you're self employed, can you lay yourself off, I wonder? And still stay married?
Telemon, I'm discovering that the employment thing was vastly overated and got in the way of the " pursuit of happiness", promised to me by the Constitution. You will find the adaptation to mid week ski bum surprisingly easy.
;D
;D
Nice pics, and that terrain looks amazing. Wish we had terrain like that here in Oregon.
Thanks for the report. My in laws have a house at Lake Cushman and we almost headed up there after chowing down on Turkey dinner to ski Ellinor.
How is it that you still to be able to ski on any given day of the week, Chris? Hopefully it will be like that for me as I start the new year unemployed.
Fantastic photo of the trees casting their backlight shadows.Similar to the recent photo in Powder magazine of the Aquille de Midi.
You got some good stuff there Eric.
Props for getting out there and getting the goods man. ;D
You got some good stuff there Eric.
Props for getting out there and getting the goods man. ;D
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Is there more to this TR?
Sorry about that.
Ron we didn't start from the C lot but should have as the road leading to that lot looked to be better covered. The road leading down to Gold Hills had been plowed by a cat and was so rocky that we hiked it!
Great Report, Scotty.
How much snow was at the upper C lot?
How much snow was at the upper C lot?
P.S forgot to add that for a lot of the skintrack both up the West side and up from the East side of the saddle, we where following elk tracks. The Elk had basically followed the summer trail and where they deviated , they set a pretty good skin track. Sure hleped Joe on the trailbreaking.
Anyway , I thought the elk skintrack was really neat. :)
Anyway , I thought the elk skintrack was really neat. :)
Conditions were pretty stable, the cornice was really hard and seemed solid - took me a good 15 minutes of whacking with my whippet to get through.
Vis was just fine except when the flakes piled up on our goggs.
Wow! Wish the weather was that nice while we were there last weekend. It puked the whole time and vis. was not the greatest. Seems you all had amazing views of the whole range and nice windblown powder from the storm we skied in. How was the stability up there? Windslabby? Looked like you both hiked up to the Blue Peak Col, correct? Cornice stable? How were the rocks further down, anything still scraping at your bases?
chris
chris
Wed, Nov 21 up at Paradise & Muir snowfield. Bluebird day, temps upper 20s to mid 30s. Skin’d right from parking lot, snow cover adequate, good skin tracks in place along Deadhorse Creek. Diverted at 6500’ on the approach west of Pan Point, very wind loaded area on the Skyline trail up along the ridge there, looks like small slab broke away (suspect triggered by someone trying to get up that route). Opted to traversed across over to the bottom of Pan Pt and ascend up that way; lot...
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Sorry I missed the excitement guys!
I didn't think that you would be too disappointed as it was just "Muir Snowfield again." Anyway, we probablly wouldn't have seen you again once we started the climb. BTW, be careful about this work thing. It sounds like a trap to me.
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