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Hey Oyvind and Joe, This is Eric from the everett moutaineers. I remember you guys talking about this at the meeting last tuesday, sure kept to your word. I look forward to taking more trips with you this season!

-Eric Schmitz

The freshies on 2" were just enough to hide the blue ice from stuff you could actaully turn on here are a few pics.



Great vis on the way down



O making turns



Fresh snow

I'd guess it's probably worse than last year?

Pics from September 18th climb.

Ugh!

look at all those freshiez dude!

I'd guess it's probably worse than last year?

Pics from September 18th climb.

Ugh!

Sky - just coming out of summer after a BAD snow year, I'm sure it looks worse than our Sept./Oct. turns up there in '02 and in '03.

So...lapaz you skied with my old man. Ha. I'll let you guess which one :)

Now I regret not going...

Lapaz do you think it will last until tomorow?
Upon reading your report I think I might have to take  a mental health day away from work. :)

Thanks for posting O.  Got any pictures of fresh snow/fresh tracks?

So have you been up there this time of year in the last few years?  I'm just curious, thinking of a baseline from which to compare, "Never seen it so broken up..."  I might like to crawl up the CD route some time soon, maybe.  I hear there's some good skiing off the top.

Thanks for the Hood report.  Nice work getting in turns despite the weather.  

Ahhh, It is always great to see the Wasatch contingent posting here.

We haven't had much of a chance back in Utah to ski this late so that is awesome!!!!!

Should you ever find yourself up here in Seattle, definitely look me up as I am a former Wasatch tele freak.

I think I am the only Utahn that is a regular on this board and I have had the pleasure to ski with a bunch of the gang here. These people are great!!

Keep the streak going.

Bry

 http://www.telemarktips.com/Photopost/showphoto.php?photo=313&size=big&limit=recent

       This is the scene of my September turns. I am still having problems with my photo gallery domain, though.

Enjoy,

Bob]

Congrats, FF! The more Utahns the better, as far as I'm concerned . . . come to think of it, I was one for a while.

Nice website, too!

Thanks for the post, G3, it looks pretty damn good from here, water ice or no. If it wasn't such a long drive, I'd be there.

  The stuff that the climber is "handling" doesn't look much like powder to me. The picture certainly was not taken on Saturday, as Baker was free of clouds. And there is the small matter of the subject being 4,000' higher than my destination.

  I have some great shots of Saturday's spectacular scenery but unfortunately my photo gallery is having some issues at the moment. Hopefully, they will be available before we actually get some powder to ski.

High Five, Adrianne,
Way to keep up the streak.
Pray for October snow  ;)

TAY this year is tough; way to go.

But last year, we had good early season, and no real season. Hopefully, this inverse relationship will hold true this year as well, and having no early season will translate into having a sick winter. :)

Here's to fresh October snow.

Lowell had a good (?) story about Dave catching his ski in one of those meltwater slots during a turn last September and I definitely did not want that to happen to me.

Here's a picture:

http://www.alpenglow.org/misc/1113-005-muir-minefield.jpg

It was taken last October. Dave_R and I went up after all the good skiing everybody else had last fall. Kinda like what happened to everybody else last weekend. (Not that our d...

Nice photos, Charles.  Considering all the moaning and groaning and caterwauling about conditions, the Muir looks pretty good (especially for Lowell, who seemed to find quite a number of "good stretches" to ski).  

Hey Mark, Looks like you had fun. The convention here is to generally post only one photo per thread, though you can create links to your other photos. You can edit your post by hitting the 'Modify' link.

...the funkiest conditions you can imagine: a patch of week-old snow here, glacial ice there, slush, runnels, man-eating crevasses, mud, gravel, scree, candy ice shell with flowing water beneath, stream beds cut into ice, mini flash floods, sun cups, micro mud flows forming tiny deltas before your eyes...It's all there, you really couldn't ask for more...

i agree, jibberd.  that is a perfect description!

now kam, do you have to make...

I've been on the fryingpan in late August.

Here is an old trip report for those interested. When enough snow falls, it's not bad:

http://cascadeclassics.org/MountRainier/LittleTahoma/Summer00/LittleTahoma,Summer2000.htm

I've never tried it myself, but there are two points of data that made me think that a very-late-summer trip to Fryingpan might be a bit of a bust:
1) Getting up to where the Meany Crest rounds off is already enough of a PITA in spring/early summer because the boulders and cliffs on the E facing toward the Summerland shelter melt out fairly quickly, and climbing choss at that angle and that looseness is tiring and dangerous. Is there a viable climbers track to Meany Crest (either from shelter...

Correction,as usual I got the date wrong, it was the 17th.
Participants where.

Scotsman
JibberD
MikeC
Alisa Siebert( First time, brought alpine skis, has been sucessfully converted and will be taking up backcountry skiing  and is now in the process of pouring over gear reviews and selecting equipment) ;)
Richard Siebert- Non-skiiing participant. Made it to 9,000 ft.
See it wasn't that bad if we managed to convince a newbee to spend  $1200 plus on a set-up. 8)

I was with JibberD and group on the 18th that went to Muir.
      It was the most hideous skiing you can imagine.

It was  also one of the most fun and hilarious days I've ever had on skis.
The measure of a days's skiing IMO is not the quality of the snow , but the amount of fun you have. ;D
In that respect Muir on 9/18 was excellent. 8)

Wow  ???
Good info, Scott, the kind that could save (or prompt - depending on one's appetite) a trip in there.
Thanks.