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Thanks for the excellent tour of the area guys! We were pretty impressed with the quality of the lines and the amount of coverage. I'm definitely hoping to get back up there soon -- looks like lots of cool terrain to explore.
Unfortunately, no brats were consumed afterwards. An unfortunate omission, but the skiing was good enough that we weren't too sad :)
Here are a few pics:
1. Skinning up above Sunrise towards Antler Peak. It was pretty clear i...
Unfortunately, no brats were consumed afterwards. An unfortunate omission, but the skiing was good enough that we weren't too sad :)
Here are a few pics:
1. Skinning up above Sunrise towards Antler Peak. It was pretty clear i...
Fun times at the chuting gallery! Great to have such excellent coverage in the chutes on the opening weekend of the Sunrise Road this year (and nice to ski a couple lines that are usually too melted-out by the time the road opens). A few photos from Sunday are posted here.
author=danhelmstadter link=topic=7399.msg29503#msg29503 date=1181938255]
...i decided to make some more turns feel htings out,, i readyied my axe to my backpack, checked my harness, and started truning,, as i crested a funky horizontal rib the snow steepend to about 50dg, and the nieve became incredibly hard, i didnt think it could get much harder that the nieve above,, but this was damn hard nieve,, i new that this was no place to be on this day,, and anchore...
Nice job, I was up there on Monday as well. What a beautiful day!!!
I think I woke up around 4:30 as the first group set off and then followed, hitting the trail by 5:00 or so. Made the summit by 11:45 and then skied the southwest chutes. Might have been a good choice to avoid the chutes as the upper 500 ft were rime ice. No fun. Things soon transition to hardpack and then some very lovely corn for the last 2000ft of the run.
Were you guys the...
I think I woke up around 4:30 as the first group set off and then followed, hitting the trail by 5:00 or so. Made the summit by 11:45 and then skied the southwest chutes. Might have been a good choice to avoid the chutes as the upper 500 ft were rime ice. No fun. Things soon transition to hardpack and then some very lovely corn for the last 2000ft of the run.
Were you guys the...
author=ron j link=topic=7405.msg29606#msg29606 date=1182222113]
Here's a shot of Darryl dropping in at the top of "fear factor".
Ron - thanks for leading a great tour and for not posting the pictures you have of me "dropping".
Stella C , by all means go further west to second Burroughs and chute out the multiple ski lines there to the north. Between 2nd and 3rd burroughs lies a pocket glacier .And beyond that 3rd burroughs with the easiet skiing but best scenry for a tour. We often combine lunch at 3rd and then take a steep line off 2nd down into berkeley park ,smell the wildflowers then skin or hike up to 1st burroughs ski the NE shoulder down into valley and finally walk back up the Maintenence rd. I kinda repeated...
The earlier opening gave us access to to better snow coverage than we've had in years. Dege was in fine shape with a line off the north side that we never had coverage on before. "Fear factor" had the most snow in it that I've ever seen.
Also haven't had enough snow to ski down the front side to the car for years, albeit the coverage was thin and, as Michael pointed out, a well mannered ranger on duty pointed out that the vegetation on the meadow has such...
Also haven't had enough snow to ski down the front side to the car for years, albeit the coverage was thin and, as Michael pointed out, a well mannered ranger on duty pointed out that the vegetation on the meadow has such...
I'm heading down to Sunrise on Wednesday- I haven't skied their before. We will be hanging around for 2 days-any recommendations other than those mentioned in this thread?
We came in from east side off Hwy 97. Here's a trip report from Amar in 2003 where I got the idea............we basically replicated his route.......
http://www.turns-all-year.com/skiing_snowboarding/trip_reports/index.php?topic=791.0
http://www.turns-all-year.com/skiing_snowboarding/trip_reports/index.php?topic=791.0
did you drive to Mt Scott? Isn't the road on that side of the lake usually still closed?
Brenda and I had an excellent weekend at the chutes. Great to see and ski with familiar and new faces. Saturday we had a great time skiing with Marcus' group in low visibility and a brief blizzard. They nearly killed us as we tried to keep up with them booting up a long steep run that Ron J calls "fear factor". Fun ski down. We took a chance on the weather and returned on Sunday. We were rewarded with a much better day weatherwise. We didn't arrive until 11:00 thinking...
author=Joedabaker link=topic=7405.msg29572#msg29572 date=1182183107]
Yeah...my date stood me up for the prom(s) without even a call. Went to the dance solo and met up with a great crew that filled the dance card. :D
Nice job on the BBQ you guys know how to do it right!
Joe
There was dancing? A BBQ?? why oh why did i have to leave so soon???
I was also there with my teenage son for a Fathers' Day outing. Weather was much better than I expected (given the rain between Enumclaw and Greenwater). Another example of "You never know unless you go". The cool weather kept the surface conditions just right (soft enough, but minimal sloughing). Coverage was a bit better than the opening weekend last year. We did 5 laps of the chutes just up from the lodge. Best of the day was the 3rd chute ov...
Chris,
Yes,I always go first on these new lines. Welcome to my secret stash. The Bailey's looked really good.
Yes,I always go first on these new lines. Welcome to my secret stash. The Bailey's looked really good.
We had a trip planned the previous weekend which was weathered out too. Boo Hoo. The sun will return!
He, he...glad that you guys had fun. We had 12 people show up this year which was a good showing for this annual trip of white pass regulars.
I would never push you Micheal, only coax you into position and then tell you to ski first. ;)
Way to go, that's how you take advantage of a weather window. Ha. I went east 8) but I nearly regret doing so after reading your report. That's a fun line!
Yea, if I have a insane Scotsman to push me over the edge.
Michael
Michael
author=Scotsman link=topic=7405.msg29568#msg29568 date=1182180569]
I guess a lot of people where put off by the weather.
Yeah...my date stood me up for the prom(s) without even a call. Went to the dance solo and met up with a great crew that filled the dance card. :D
Nice job on the BBQ you guys know how to do it right!
Joe
I got scared just reading your trip report! Fine effort and thanks for the update on the SW Chutes. I guess a lot of pople are waiting for that weather window but alas this coming weekend looks just as bad.
Welcome to the PNW, as the previous poster said, " youse got big balls".
Welcome to the PNW, as the previous poster said, " youse got big balls".
Good work,. you'll get that north slope when we have some better weather.
I saw you guys on Saturday but left early as the weather was really coming in. Went back up on Sunday with my son Stewart and skied two chutes but again left early as we had brought no food and my teenager needed feeding. On Sunday I nearly turned around at Enumclaw due to the weather but on reaching Sunrise it was dry and a mix of sun breaks and clouds.
chutes skied really well. I guess a lot of peple where put off by the weather.
chutes skied really well. I guess a lot of peple where put off by the weather.
Ha! Agreed, that looks more like a weather wall to me, rather than a window... Nice work!
Here are a few of my pics from Saturday.
Booting up a steep chute.
Anastasia skiing with faint figures of our party visible through the clouds. It wasn't a blizzard -- I had the shutter speed a bit too high for the conditions -- everything came out pretty noisy.
Booting up a steep chute.
Anastasia skiing with faint figures of our party visible through the clouds. It wasn't a blizzard -- I had the shutter speed a bit too high for the conditions -- everything came out pretty noisy.
Today june 16th Holly and I joined forces with Park Ranger Casey and skied 2nd Bouroughs down into Berkely park. Lov vis but managed to open the jets once we traversed out above some rocks. Many good lines on Burroughs 2 ,pocket glacier to the west and entincing run between those two spires. Hisser management still nessecary on North facing,East facing xcellent back down into maintenece road. No pollen ! No Pollen! East facing Dege looks doable to me with ski tracks on it already. all sour...
We skied down between Antler and 6,951, then a nice gully to the same basin from near the top of 6,951. After that we hopped around and skied a thin finger into the bowls on far skiers right of Huckleberry, so we didn't get near Dege. Plenty of snow left to piece a skin track up there though. Have fun tomorrow!
Thanks for the report, Marcus.
Did you get a look at or get a chance to ski Dege?
At any rate it sound like there's still a decent supply of white stuff in the chutes. I'll try and smooth it out a bit for the rest, tomorrow.
Radio on 12-34 for anyone that wants to crank a few with the geezer.
Did you get a look at or get a chance to ski Dege?
At any rate it sound like there's still a decent supply of white stuff in the chutes. I'll try and smooth it out a bit for the rest, tomorrow.
Radio on 12-34 for anyone that wants to crank a few with the geezer.
Headed up....thinking a Fathers Day celebration on the SW Chutes...
fingers crossed for a little pow! Changing my tranceiver batteries as we speek.
...see you there. And thank you Dan for the Great Report!
Pin'
..Free admission to the Spring CornPow Rodeo, to the first 46 contestents.
PS. Always had "rodeo" in mind for Ginormous melted out Treewells...Never thought to apply the term to .....what you call Gino...
fingers crossed for a little pow! Changing my tranceiver batteries as we speek.
...see you there. And thank you Dan for the Great Report!
Pin'
..Free admission to the Spring CornPow Rodeo, to the first 46 contestents.
PS. Always had "rodeo" in mind for Ginormous melted out Treewells...Never thought to apply the term to .....what you call Gino...
Bike? What bike? Do you see any studded snow tires in that photo? Back when I used to ski (circa 2003), we skied lines way more gnar. ::)
Oh yeah, I'm biking tomorrow...he-he 8)
Oh yeah, I'm biking tomorrow...he-he 8)
author=Sam Avaiusini link=topic=7399.msg29517#msg29517 date=1181958506]
90+ degrees in the lowlands is key. Walking up the north ridge in trail shoes gives you plenty of time to scope out
What the hell do *you* know, mountain biker!! ;)
Ditto.
90+ degrees in the lowlands is key. Walking up the north ridge in trail shoes gives you plenty of time to scope out NFNWR and if it looks bad, you can always navigate the Adams Glacier or one of the lobes of the Lyman. It sounds like you have your head straight. NFNWR gets pretty tame on the upper 3rd, so it's easy to get comfortable and then find yourself on different (more firm) surfaces as the pitch rolls away beneath.
90+ degrees in the lowlands is key. Walking up the north ridge in trail shoes gives you plenty of time to scope out NFNWR and if it looks bad, you can always navigate the Adams Glacier or one of the lobes of the Lyman. It sounds like you have your head straight. NFNWR gets pretty tame on the upper 3rd, so it's easy to get comfortable and then find yourself on different (more firm) surfaces as the pitch rolls away beneath.
Conditions really are everything. Way to keep it together, Dan. The traditional approach is to hit Adams with a solid heat wave.
holy *&$%@! glad you're okay....
thanks for posting the conditions update....I'll keep my fingers crossed for a 90 degree heat wave in the next couple of weeks.
thanks for posting the conditions update....I'll keep my fingers crossed for a 90 degree heat wave in the next couple of weeks.
Dan - how do you ski with those huge balls swinging around? BTW - I'm very impressed with your ski of Longs a while back - that east face stuff is sick.
Marcus - I'll check it out - thanks!
dan - Yup, here for ever and ever, amen - I thought of you when I arrived and wondered if we'd hook up. Looks like we're trading places. So far been in CO a month and have skied Crooked Couloir on Audubon, Sundance bowl (down to the river!), Tombstone bowl (ahem on location), and Bancroft. Torrey's North Face this week...
dan - Yup, here for ever and ever, amen - I thought of you when I arrived and wondered if we'd hook up. Looks like we're trading places. So far been in CO a month and have skied Crooked Couloir on Audubon, Sundance bowl (down to the river!), Tombstone bowl (ahem on location), and Bancroft. Torrey's North Face this week...
looks like i missed you by about a week,, sundance off of trail ridge was in awsome shape last week, and is about 2k with supper easy access, are you down in colorado foor good?
Wow, way to give it a go and glad that you are safe. I've learned over 4 or 5 skis of that route that it needs to be done when its 90 degrees in the lowlands and late in the day (like 4 o'clock). Over the next few weeks we should get a break like that.
Great shot -- really conveys the unique dusk ski experience up there!
Oh allright, I'll cut you some slack this time. Smarter people than us two have been discussing that issue up in random tracks lately. It's good to have a Colorado Correspondant on the scene.
Oh yes. But, my new camera takes very large photos, and the software to manipulate them won't allow me to shrink below the TAY limit of 100k w/out making them illegible. Until 1) I somehow find my other photoshop CD in storage or 2) Charles loosens the 100k limit on photos, then no photos will accomany TRs into the future. Such is life.
Don't they let you carry cameras down there in the South?
Gotta take my skis in today to get the bases grinded, the ski down with the pollen and then through the trees provided a good amount of glop and tar on the bottom. Not even skins would stick to them!
Wow, looks like I opened a can of "Random Tracks". Great info. Thanks
Michael
Michael
author=Randy link=topic=7362.msg29448#msg29448 date=1181771865]
But who knows what the new owners of the Karhu / K2 brand will do ? -- it might be that last season will be the only time it will be made.
NOOOOOOO!!! :'( Randy, is this really true?
We've been skiing our Guides all spring and we've been very impressed. Though not a fan of waxless in colder more powdery conditions, as far as I'm concern...
The hotlum- wintun as a ski descent is normally a great route with its only drawback being that you have to fight the fall line and trend skiers left as you ski it to get back to the hot-tun snowfield and the Brewer TH. The upper Hot-tun can ski well which tops out on the north side of the upper hotlum-wintun ridge proper, the hot tun can get some weird horizontal wind strata on it though. Slightly farther north is the climbers left hand variation of the Hotlum glacier route which is one of the...
This is the NW -- since when was powder performance an important consideration ;)
In fluffy snow the pattern doesn't climb very steeply -- but OTH it also doesn't drag very much.
The XCD Guide is a light ski for it's width and it is a very sweet turning ski. It would also be desirable if offered in a smooth based version.
But who knows what the new owners of the Karhu / K2 brand will do ? -- it might be that last season will be the only time...
In fluffy snow the pattern doesn't climb very steeply -- but OTH it also doesn't drag very much.
The XCD Guide is a light ski for it's width and it is a very sweet turning ski. It would also be desirable if offered in a smooth based version.
But who knows what the new owners of the Karhu / K2 brand will do ? -- it might be that last season will be the only time...