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That sounds like a great trip! I've looked off Whitman Crest at the Whitman proper when coming up from Fryingpan, and Whitman looks like a relatively sane glacier to be skiing upon - there were definitely cracks but the really big ones were few, far between, and concentrated in places you might expect like breakovers and compressions. Would you agree that skiing on the Whitman (possibly solo) would probably fall within many of our comfort ranges? (It's all relative of course...)
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Thats a pretty damn good achievement.
Do you know what your overall vertical gain/loss was over the 4 day span?

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Thanks Ron,  Were you able to ski all the way down or did you have to walk out the valley?

We skied the length of the lower Paradise Gl morraine down to about 6400 where we skirted up the west wall of the morraine with a short portage.  We basically swithced footgear and saddled up for the hike back at Golden Gate although Scotty stuck it out with more short carrie...

Thanks Ron,

Were you able to ski all the way down or did you have to walk out the valley?

author=The_Snow_Troll link=topic=5135.msg21600#msg21600 date=1153320747]... How are the cracks on the glacier?  Are things opened, closed or just sagging?...

I'd probably describe the glacier's condition as "sagging and opening up more every day".  Our descent was more above the cleaver that extends up from the saddle at Cowlitz rocks.  We crossed a wide bridge with cracks on either side of us at about 8300 and we had to...

Gouda as it gets ? Wisha wouda been there.

Awesome! Thanks to your pix now I know exactly where I ended up, and how I got there, on Saturday. What I'm still not clear on is how to get over the Cushman Crest (eg how do you connect  this to this? Looks like mandatory rockband...

You probably made the right call.  My brother and I skied the chutes on July 8, and things were getting pretty thin.  We had to carry over some rocks to enter the chutes.  We also had to dodge a couple crevasses lower down.  We had a fun time, but it was definitely getting late in the season.

We were the tele skiers who started down with you (maybe it was almost 2 pm).  When we got to the bottom of the steep part,  we looked up and saw your party stopped midway down and wondered if there was a problem.  We waited for awhile, and asked another skier who had passed you.  He told us what was up, so we headed out.  Sorry to hear about the camera, but glad that it wasn't anything more serious.

The visibility from the summit was indeed unusually fi...

Nice work still skiing this route this late in the year!

Cool pictures - the sunrise on that cloud layer is really beautiful...

It seems like there were several sections with some relatively new 3/4-minus gravel, but my poor car hates me right now because of the rest of it.  I'm trying to talk it into one more trip up there this weekend, but I don't know.  I'll probably do it with a case of fix-a-flat.

I'm still jonesin' for more of the Langille bowls.  That was the best overall ski trip of my life.

Yeah, Buck, it was really cool meeting you guys.  Hope w...

A good July tour.  I've turned back at that very crevasse at least twice in years past, but we crossed it a couple of weeks ago and continued on.  It forms predictably but is also surrounded by smaller slots which may or may not be visible. Makes me nervous when I'm alone.

Sounds like you skied to the same meadow/swamp in the main drainage, where we also de-skied....but in the intervening weeks the trail must've melted out, saving you the trouble of bushwackin...

  As always, I enjoyed your report, Mark. I have never skied Ruth Mountain, but I do remember admiring it while on a backpacking trip through to the Chilliwack River valley and the border a decade ago.

Bob

Nice to see good coverage out on the Sholes Glacier, Old Reliable for September turns.

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Glad there are others still skiiing the easy stuff at the end of the road.  I was up there last weekend and skied the little thread remaining between the Inner Glacier and Bagley Basin: one ski wide with flowing water underneath.  This weekend I opte...

You can hire painters - you CAN"T hire someone to ski for you!
Au contraire, mon ami.
I cannot be hired to paint but will offer a very competitive per vert ski rate. Small surcharge for hiking to snow.
Will even post a report under your name.
Nominal charge for attached pictures. No one would ever know it wasn't you

I was visiting Sunrise with my family and was scanning the mountain for climbers to show my dad - your turns looked awesome through my binoculars :). Looked like fun.

Michael

Buck,

It was nice meeting you and Evan at the Trailhead.  That road ranks right up there with some of the rougher roads I've been on.  The way out did seem a little rougher............hopefully we'll cross paths again out on the slopes ;)

Matt

Nice report and nice meeting you at the trail head.  What a good day to be on Snowdome with almost no one else 'cept us Eugene folk.  Is it just me, or did that road seem even more jarring on the way out?   

I was up on Snowdome Friday (14th) and had a great day.  We followed Eliot Creek up to where it was coming out of the glacier and crossed there.  We saw the the seasonal bridge on shore waiting to be put in place.  We booted up the edge of the
Eliot - many open crevasses but easy navigation.  We elected to ski along the side of the Eliot as time was short.  The snow was the worst at the top of Snowdome, but became nice corn after about 500 vf.  Lower on the El...

Silas:
Nice report! Good to see your daughter starting on the T-A-Y way!! Let's ski soon...

Wow Freshie - I had no idea that was you again! What a small world. Thanks for the update re the lower bridge. That's super good info. I too love the Snowdome tour!

Jeff

I'm not sure about current conditons, but on the 1st there was just one big obvious one up around 9000'. In years past I've seen and skied right over smaller ones lower down. All in all I don't think theres much danger to worry about, just go and have a great ski.

Jeff, twice in a row now I've come down to Oregon for a tour and picked the same trip as you.  You all blew by the two us at the base of the dome and then we had lunch just below you at the top.

I really like the Snowdome, 3700' of uphill nets 3700' of turns, even in July! We followed the original route of the Timberline trail out from Langille and h...

Was up there Saturday as well.  We only topped out at 8400' on the Russell, cause of time constraints, but it was cool skiing that one bit of the Russell plus the Flett.  First time I'd even been to that corner of MRNP.    Actually as we were crossing the eastern "piece" of the Flett, we saw one snowboarder cruisin down towards that little pond.  Was probably you, Snoslut.  8) 

Good times and great weather, but wow ....  way too much hiking to get in there.  ::) ;...

I just looked and saw this report was from Sunday (not Monday like I orginally thought).  I assume the snow bridges were still there as they were in the July 8th report.