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It's always enjoyable to read about adventures that don't go as planned. The reality of spending time in the mountains. The terrain looked interesting. The bears photo is wonderful.
So, how's the sprained MCL after the "roof descent" ?
Jill's having surgery on her miniscus on June 4th. She'll be recovered and ready to "break trail" for our upcoming trip to Argentina and Chile.
So, how's the sprained MCL after the "roof descent" ?
Jill's having surgery on her miniscus on June 4th. She'll be recovered and ready to "break trail" for our upcoming trip to Argentina and Chile.
Excellent! So it really did clear up somewhere up there on Sunday. Way to go with the plan for this long strenous trip.
awsome!, nice work,, i made it to the summit on the dc last spt. too pitenentety to ski from the sumit, the wind nearly knocked me into the the sharp ice formations on liberty cap. I cant belive those crevases on emmons can be filled in and skiied over!
"Women Hear Us Roar".....Congratulations you guys....what a terrific trip report....great weather, tasty food, good climbing companions....what more could you ask for? Wish us similar luck in July....although....no one can top BBQ'd porkchops at 9,400' !!
Awesome! Great work -- sound like we were all thinking of you, wondering if you'd made it above the crap weather that everyone else had. Nice job!
It's from viosport... ~$300 for the kit. They've much improved the attachment system (between camcorder and helmet cam) from the their old models, but the microphone totally sucks. Image quality is pretty good - almost on par with standard definition DV. (youtube really degrades the quality, so you can't tell much from the posted footage).
Nice goin you all, It must've been so nice sleeping in and making the summit and not having to walk down and having cold beer waiting. very very smart! Congrats!
Sweet footage! What sort of helmet cam do you use? expensive?
Congrats Ladies!! I just got all the juicy details from Andrea -- wow ... sounds like you had a great time!! What a huge accomplishment -- not only did you summit but you got to ski all the way down! Very cool.
-- Q :)
-- Q :)
Cool Don_B. I skied it on 5/26. Apart from the first hour, we spent the entire journey in the clouds. Always a good time though. --Scott
Sweet! Congrats on a great outing and thanks for the conditions report. I've posted a link to your TR on my website. --Scott
YAY!!! Nice work ladies!! I'm SO happy for you!!! :) :) :) Pete and I looked south several times this weekend, unable to see Rainier through all the clouds and hoping you were well above it. Glad to hear it worked out.
Congrats!
Congrats!
Fantabulous! What a great outing. Congrats on skiing it -- that's really cool. I've posted a link to your TR on my website. --Scott
Awesome Ema. Rainier is a big beast of a mountain and you should be happy to have gotten to ski it. I was so jealous of those who were up on rainier on monday! I went up on friday and the wind was the least I'd had since my first climb of it, but it snowed on us during our late summit. The snow could have been better up high, but the nice corn down low made up for it. What a great mountain!
We did Easy Pass Sat and Birthday Tour Sunday. Both somewhat mushy but still fine experiences. With all the clear nights this week, looks like the mush will finally consolidate. I think N Cascades had more snow and cloudier nights in last 2 weeks than South, particularly after my experience last Thursday between Chinook and Crystal.
Looks like a great time as well on Rainier Saturday. Unpredicted fine weather gift was well utilized! Scouting the Finger, eh. Are you ready?
Looks like a great time as well on Rainier Saturday. Unpredicted fine weather gift was well utilized! Scouting the Finger, eh. Are you ready?
Thanks for sharing such an amazing trip Ema and for your excellent navigation skills around the crevasses. Driving across 520 this morning was extra special with the mountain in full view thinking about having stood on it and skiied it less than 24 hours ago. http://www.mountrainierclimbing.blogspot.com/
I'm not entirely convinced it was pollen either... I was a mile from any tree, and was skiing a lot of slopes that were brown most likely from dirt & rock... although the sticky substance on my skis looked just like the pictures posted on this board, and I've never had that from skiing through fine dirt/rock.
Sounds like you two had a nice trip. What else did you do up there?
Do we know for sure if this is a pollen problem? I've never encountered anything this bad in the past. Did I just miss the event or could it be that this is some type of air pollution that cold distilled on the snow pack?
woohoo! congrats Ema! I was wondering about you gals this weekend... glad to hear that y'all were above the weather that ruined the plans that some of us (like me) had for the weekend.
Nick - some of the ski-intended citrus cleaner rips that stuff right off, but then you need to follow up with a new wax job. Still, it takes far less than 2 hours to get the skis back in shape this way.
We found some enjoyable skiing up on Silver Peak yesterday, so perhaps we're nearing the end of the event? Though we did manage to get a slight pollen coating on the lower slopes of the tour when we made the strategic error of heading into some deep forest when we coulda stayed in...
We found some enjoyable skiing up on Silver Peak yesterday, so perhaps we're nearing the end of the event? Though we did manage to get a slight pollen coating on the lower slopes of the tour when we made the strategic error of heading into some deep forest when we coulda stayed in...
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We saw Silas and his buddy arriving at the ridge as we returned there - they had decided to have this tour as a little dessert after skiing one of the sub-peaks of Ingalls earlier in the day!!
The return through the basin was a little mushier but still fun on the right aspects.
Thanks for the steps back up, very helpful.
Snow in the basin was mus...
how rough is the road back in to silver peak? do ya need a high clearance vehicle?
Haha... awesome... it should be illegal to be on snowshoes on beautiful ski terrain like that!
Thanks for the fresh perspective with the GREAT video! The look on your face at the end sums it up. I felt like I was there. Bueno!
The corn was amazing there today... we skied Mt Ruth. The snowpack has consolidated nicely. No pollen either. A little sticky dirt down low.
I uploaded a little helmet cam footage to youtube:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7L1dgwPgBIw
The damage to the trail was crazy... no more can you turn your brain off on the way out.
I uploaded a little helmet cam footage to youtube:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7L1dgwPgBIw
The damage to the trail was crazy... no more can you turn your brain off on the way out.
Nice trip, Art. It appears your hip is doing just great.
I was also at Glacier Basin last saturday. Yes it is still alive and well, once you get past the wonderful new route of 1 trail-less mile. It was quite tedious at times negotiating the wreckage. The trail was totally gone! I was amazed at the extent of the damage. I would say it tacked on an extra 45 min for me each way. I talked to a group of rangers on my way back who were scouting out areas to route a new trail, they said it will likely be 2 more summers before it would be in place. Bu...
Despite the skin malfunctions, the skiing and company made it a great day out :)
I'm finding this pollen event incredibly frustrating >:(. Here we have this bountiful snowpack for the time of year, but every ski trip ends on a slow downhill note and then at least two hours after you get home is spent cleaning all the gunk off your skis. By the way I didn't find the rubbing alcohol working so well. I ended up doing a preliminary scrape with a waxing scraper to get the worst of it off, then hot wax and immediate scrape, followed by rubbing...
Good Work E! Glad to see you guys got it...I am hoping to get there later in June...
Cheers,
C
Cheers,
C
Cool video, and a good advertisement for ski mountaineering.
Don, I didn't measure this trip but I did the same approach but to 3rd Burroughs a few years ago (http://www.turns-all-year.com/goldhome/hp34/index.html) and it measured at about 18 miles RT. The snow was really fast that day and no pollen problems.
Ron, I've come to count on your faulty memory! And yes, if the Sunrise road does actually open in mid-June and the coming heat wave doesn't last until then, there should be some good skiing in Burroughs chutes. I did take so...
Ron, I've come to count on your faulty memory! And yes, if the Sunrise road does actually open in mid-June and the coming heat wave doesn't last until then, there should be some good skiing in Burroughs chutes. I did take so...
double e ,Thanks much appreciative for the road and ski info. Jeff's a good guy ,I'm glad to see him getting his share. Did pollen give you any trouble that far south?
Charles - Nice report. It's good to hear about the coverage on Burroughs. I think I was suppose to bust you about something related to this trip but I forgot what it was...
Don - Charles does these type of trips in much shorter times than mere mortals ;)
Don - Charles does these type of trips in much shorter times than mere mortals ;)
Marco - Thanks for doing the TR; Good description of the snow conditions, and thanks again for rescuing me from a solo trip. It was great to ski with you. Fun stuff.
Not much in the way of pics tho, in that we were "on instruments" the whole time.
I found this phenomenon interesting and got a shot of it:
Icicles forming from meltwater dripping off the pines...
The...
Not much in the way of pics tho, in that we were "on instruments" the whole time.
I found this phenomenon interesting and got a shot of it:
Icicles forming from meltwater dripping off the pines...
The...
Charles,
Good decision. That's a long out-and-back trip. How long a day was that?
Good decision. That's a long out-and-back trip. How long a day was that?
I seem to recall a similar TR last year. This could become an annual event for testing GPS unit accuracy. I think Joedabaker became a "believer" after your trip last year.
Ron's water treatment system is reliable if taken in small doses.
Thanks for the report. I think I'll dust the furniture today and wait for the corn. ;)
Ron's water treatment system is reliable if taken in small doses.
Thanks for the report. I think I'll dust the furniture today and wait for the corn. ;)
Having climbed that route you are officially classified as certifiable. Congratulations on pulling that off. I would never have even thought about trying to get down that. Impressive pictures.
John
John
Ours got pretty much as bad 2 weeks ago up at the Baker ski area, but they were more or less fine until we skied the last very short bit of woods below the base of chair 5 (we parked by the gate at the white salmon lodge road, walked to lodge to skin up, but skied through woods below chair 6 directly to car). Same deal as you describe in random tracks - I was basically walking downhill on skis as we approached the road.
Relying on the accuracy of the time honored old saw that a picture is worth 1000 words, I'm posting some shots which may shed further light on the exact nature of our many-faceted tour to Big Snow. (You know, Jim; it's theorized that homo sapiens started out in the forest as a tree=dweller and may in fact have evolutionary roots as an aquatic organism. ) No, really.......it was a great day in the hills.
skiied the "glacier"(snowfield) towrds the right of the picture,, off the cd, its not a very good representational shot, pics in rmnp are especially deciving of scale,, the mt to the s. does not yeild very good skiing, not much snow...
Saw you guys out there-- wished I was on skis. That'll be remedied tomorrow. Glad you had fun!
What did you ski in the borrowed picture? Something on the face on the left?
Two broken alarm clocks in a week... hmm.
Two broken alarm clocks in a week... hmm.
To find more photos with better resolution, go to my ski photo site at http://www.telemarktips.com/Photopost/showgallery.php?ppuser=61&cat=500
Enjoy,
Bob
Enjoy,
Bob
Ron, we followed your tracks west from the summit to check out the gully, a feature I'd seen on the topo's. I somehow didn't even notice the chutes. We were debating skiing the gully, but couldn't remember if the bottom was melted out. Good thing we kept to our original plan, it was as we later saw. I've also seen a line down the southwest side, dropping into the bowl east of Hester Lake. Fodder for dreams of next season.