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Thanks for the tour, Larry. Any idea what the whole rig weighs?

Ron, I think that picture is the second beer coaster. And thanks for identifying the pump, I was wondering what that was.

David

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See the thermometer? Check out that stove!! I particularly like the hardwood shims for levelling the base.

Thanks for noticing the stove TDave. Also got a PM also mentioning the stove stuff, so I thought that maybe a shop photo of more of it might be of interest….well to at least two TAYers.

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See the thermometer? Check out that stove!! I particularly like the hardwood shims for levelling the base.

cass and all--those photos of all that snow are making me drool...looks sweet! 

yodelin was the first place i ever went in the bc.  it holds a special place.  ;D

we skinned around from summit east, and came back over and down under the lift. 

http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/wenatchee/district/cleelum/winterrec.html

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Nice to meet you guys!  Fantastic day indeed -- I had a snow beard and clogged nostrils on every run...

The way that he described is rather steep and quite dangerous the only way I know out to that shoot is steep and in rather a long trek to get out there but good luck and so you know alot of us call it the smoka chute

Yes, good times on the 23rd. No doubt about it.
Great skiing and super fun snow geeking.
Results posted here: http://cascadesnowgeek.blogspot.com/
Looking forward to looking at all of the pictures. Face shots all day.

Headed out from the quicksilver lift into three-way basin. We lapped a moderately angled face all day. My friend triggered a slide on the first run (faintly visible in the middle of the pic below). It was isolated, slow moving, and didn't propagate, but was still enough to keep us from getting too adventurous. The resort was blasting South Back all day, which unleashed some pretty substantial slides, but they did open it up in the afternoon.

Correct it was sliding on friday's snow, not the prior crust. We were out of there by 10am, turned around around 5k.

So, Tony B, were you with the "Usual Suspects" or did you come by later and snap that photo?

Thanks Ron.  Now that we are hitched I may have some wet nurse work in the future also. 

Headed back to the "Middle Kingdom" (MI) today for the holidays, so take some turns for me and write tr's!

Thanks for the info.
My Partner has toured Jim Hill and said it was awesome. They all sound fun. I tend to like longer tours rather than lapping things, so these could be up my ally. Not that Yodelin was bad or anything, just really short.

Thanks again

Last spring, while lunching at or quite close to where this picture was taken, a couple guys skinned up to us and said the tracks we were admiring in this coulour were theirs.  I think they were snow pack surveyors for WSDOT.  Either they have a great job or were getting a few turns on their day off.  I think they said they went up just on the back side of the lefthand skyline ridge in the photo.  I have been half way up that ridge to ski a nearby bowl.  Though I'm...

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BUMMER!  Hope you heal well and quickly. 

Snow was really nice off the summit, too!

You tracked my landing, hoser.  Ha ha.  Just kidding, I found an acceptable alternate flight plan.

What happened to your leg, Greg?

Christmas came early this year. My sister Jane and I were slogging along in deep and none too light snow with our 'everything for comfort' packs, thinking that maybe we should bail to the lower of the two campsites we like because with new snow coming we were not sure if we could get very far up the next morning anyway. (See the pic below, going down the next day.) Then out of the woods pops John, who had taken Route B. John not only set a nice track right to our campsite, but on up th...

Headed out north of the north back boundary today (12/21). Pretty good stuff with 3" new on top of a soft base as long as you avoid the avy debris that came down during last weeks warming period. It was sunny but stayed cold so the snow should be good for the weekend warriors out there. South back wasn't open but they were blasting all day. Not really sure what the hold up was because a slide seemed pretty improbable.

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Nov 25th (Saturday) a partner & I had an up close and personal encounter with an avalanche at the break-over on East Peak.

Are you referring to the NE flank of East Peak? There's more than one break-over on that peak.

Nov 25th (Saturday) a partner & I had an up close and personal encounter with an avalanche at the break-over on East Peak. Burghdorfers book shows this as a potential avalanche slope & I'm very aware of it. (???) We were on a tight timeline with one run in mind, then head home to get some chores done. Being in a hurry causes "shortcuts" (mistake #1).  Arrived at E. Pk. summit about 10:15 a.m. We looked at 2 pits going up & checked stability at several switchbacks...

What a difference a day can make indeed. After a great day of making turns in a suprisingly untracked Moonlight bowl Monday, yesterday three of us set the destination of Type Peak. Skinning up we quickly realized the snow went to complete mush. Took a run down the north slopes of Skyline, turned around and called it a day.

Conditions Monday were quite good, with about 6-7 inches of fairly light snow on top of a consolidated snowpack. Although visible in the pit, the rain crust about...

Glad to hear the outcome was good, that's a rather nasty chute when it goes. My recent experience in Bullion Basin was a HUGE wake-up call. As I've now done some serious reading / re-educating, I find a few things that seem too common. Complacency, basing decisions on similar slope trust factors, and not keeping well informed of current snow/ weather / avy danger come right to the top. It's all different after a close call & I'm sure you & your buds are "reflecti...

I TOTALLY AGREE ITS ALWAYS SMART TO UPDATE ON TRAINING..... i ADMIT THAT I JUMPED THE GUN ON THAT ONE AND IT IS STUPID TO SAY IT WONT HAPPEN AGAIN BUT NEXT TIME I WILL TAKE MORE TIME TO TEST A SLOPE

Do not take this the wrong way but you might want to consider taking an Avalanche Awareness Course.

Many people have died skiing/snowboarding in the backcountry at Crystal when the upper mountain is closed.  The main reason they close the upper mountain is when there are high winds...high winds = wind loading, wind loading = high avalanche danger.

Don't get me wrong, a person can get out in the backcountry and ski/snowboard on high hazard days but not on steep chutes l...