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Awesome photos! I've spent a lot of time up in that area climbing in the summers, it's cool to see how it looks the rest of the year.

Thanks, MW88888888. We'll have to go back up there together sometime. I never though about the parking as we always had a pass, but I guess you are right about the access. BTW, if you look carefully at my 3rd picture, you can see 3 boarders launching the cornices on Granite! Nice!

Or slow down; I remember you railing in the crud last Dec. in Bullion. 
G3 gave me great service, too, w/a jammed up cartridge. 

It was a first Gen Targa Ascent. They have since beefed them up, my replacements are already in the mail. It was a tear in the toe plate, directly underfoot. I got these bindings as soon as they came out last spring, sometimes being an early adopter is not such a good thing.....
Working with G3 has been great though, as I had the other foot blow apart in the same way in Feb in the Tetons and they got right on em and kept me skiing.
Guess I need to learn to butter my turns a bit better...

Glad you had fun! I think I saw you on/near the summit while embroiled in the midst of my own misadventure on the SE flank of Low Mountain. Did you happen to take any photos from the summit looking toward Kaleetan that might've included Low? (If you happened to catch me, I'm probably only a little red or blue spot on the skyline of the SE ridge).

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That poodle Lucy sure smelt good.

Chugach, your typing and spelling skills are almost as good as your ascent/descent skills.

It looked like you thought Ron smelt better than Lucy.  Maybe not!

Great tour!

That Secret stash near the NE corner of MRNP sure has the goods. Sunny there again whilst rain was pouring forth at snoqualmie pass. Nice pics. It must be nice to have your own poodle dog to "poodle dog" the slopes.  :)

Good to see that you boys are still after it.
10 hour drive, plus Kam's fight time for 840 vf. JOM???
Great report.

At least we found Sawtooth National Forest this time - that slippery bugger wasn't getting past me twice.  Yessir, it was another fine, fine roadtrip.  Let me also note that it's a special kind of friend who flies across the country just in time for a 10-hour drive to...southern Idaho.  Bravo to you, Sir, and well done.

Is that the Granite offa I-90?  Gotta get at that before meltdown.

OK ,so  I missed an r in "Darryl".  Ron, I can't open your red-x shots either, from right-click or double-click.  Any ideas?

Very nice report, Mack.
And a fun day for sure.  It was interesting watching the different personalities of the dogs.  There was only one time when Chuggie was not all over the place:


Great Action:


Great Turns:

Specifics of the snow:  west facing slopes 5700'-4500' had half an inch of corn on a firm base, east facing had a couple inches of powder under the corn and light crust, but a firm base too.  Below 3500' on lower angle slopes the corn was deeper and softer.  The rain should make the next sunny period even better spring skiing!

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When you say the SW face of crown are you talking about going into the Morris Creek area or the Pickhandle basin ???

Pickhandle -Morse is S-SE

When you say the SW face of crown are you talking about going into the Morris Creek area or the Pickhandle basin ???

Way to make the good call, Joe & friends.

Next week is looking promising  ;D ;D Im game for some of those other peaks we had to bag because of weather

No, I haven't, but maybe you can find out more here:

http://www.nichols.edu/departments/glacier/iceworm.htm

Yes stoudema.  I use a 66 prior for pow/corn and 65 voile for corn/steeps/pow.

For whatever the reason or rhyme, powder should never be neglected.  Such a good thing is never meant to last.

I couldn't agree more!  By the way snowslut, what type of board do you ride?  Are you splittin' it?

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I eventually wound up in the backcountry of Crystal.  The exact location is of no particular importance. 

In the end keeping as much surface area on the snow proved more efficient allowing for a somewhat straight shot up East Peak.  Once on top Kyle, Preston and Alex took a quick lap into Cement Basin while I took pictures and marinated.

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Damn ,I knew I should have left the couch....nice work 8)

Yeah, I'm always coveting that line every time I pass it, too.
Nice to see that Martin isn't the only one that skis it.

Hey Zap:

I think Paula and I got the goods in that Feb storm.  By the sounds of it I think you need a fire extinguisher down there instead of avy gear.

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Howdy Zap & Jill,
We're almost as disappointed as you - since we were looking forward to the stream of wonderful 'spring in the Sierra' reports we've come to expect from you! But you're in luck if you return early.  Ron J stumbled on the proverbial eye in the middle of the storm - blue sky and corn in the south cascades!  As of today, the water is literally pouring out of the mountains - the Snoqualmie's are running brown and high, and every crack...