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wow.

Double WOW!
Great job- that is a whopper of a day! You got the whole package!
Joe

Way to rack up the vert, Paul & Monika - you're animals!

Paul,

As you left Horse Camp and traversed onto Casaval Ridge, you were probably above Giddy which would have been on your left(climbers left).  West Face terminates in Hidden Valley which is further climbers left.

I was pleased to read about your excellent trip with Monika.  10,000 vf - :).   I'm not allowed to climb that much vertical unless assisted by a high speed quad.

Zap

Excellent. I'm going to be there in a few days so thanks for the photos, and congrats on hitting the elusive quintuple digits on vft.

We left around 6:30am and took at least a 30 minute lunch break and several shorter stops along the way.  The traffic was light and it seemed like an easy drive with the straight shot down I-5.  No problem doing it as a 3-day trip.  Nice scenery too from Eugene on.  If I had extra time, I would divert to the coast and drive back that way.  Longer, but would make for a fun trip.

...a full day of great spring skiing (10,000 vft) in the glow of that California sunshine.

lucky!!

great photos, by the way!!  thanks for sharing.

That's American.  Only on day like that one...

You're welcome.

Gusk, I could not play the video on my ancient 5 yo computer. My dog was on KOMO in 1993 when she was first trained. She is 12 yrs old and she still lives to run snowy mountains!

Great report, I hope this weather will throw us a bone this weekend.


That isn't the powder dog with a brief cameo in this video is it? ;^)

The loss of Matt's car is a bummer, and just plain old disappointing.

Some pics from this trip can be seen here:

Yes that was an excellent rope line John, nice job! Sorry about the poaching, I'll definitely go around next time  :)

Thanks Joe, that is "Give back my Heart" off Pontiac
I'm questionable for Saturday , but probable for Sunday 8)

5" of fresh ? Good it will last a while then till your next trip up there. Probaly got some more on top of that.
thanks for the report

Stefan - Great report for not having a lot to work with...
Jeanette and Jibber - Great pics, thanks.
Jerman - with what you had to work with in terms of light and scant footie, I don't know how you do it... Fun Viddy!!

Hi Greg,

It's true that "inefficiency" is essentially synonymous with "getting a good workout," (Why else walk uphill when you could take a ski lift? Why exercise at all when you could be lazing around watching reality TV instead?), but in this case I was trying to gently suggest that Tim probably met you at the southeast, not southwest, corner of Table Mountain.  I see evidence of a recent edit on his post.

I'm always, errrr, often up for a death slog prov...

That was fun indeed, despite the less than optimal summer conditions 8) Our primary goal was achieved,thanks to a great bunch of.....Slush Hunters  8)  That's right a new groovy movie!

Nice touring with you all last Sunday.

It was an interesting day with highly variable weather and snow conditions.  It seemed wierd to me to be able to drive right up to the trailhead.  I think I kind of prefer the Winter method where you pay your dues by climbing that boulder field at Narada Falls to reach the road.  Keeps out the riff-raff, you know ;)

Here's a link to some pics:

It was really nice having Stefan back in action again after a brief absence, and he's right, somehow we did seem to make this more of a "Geezer's" pace, but we still had way to much fun  ;D

.......so when My turn came I decided to make it look as hard as possible.....

Don't kid yourself for one minute, Stefan was back skiing, like a duck taking to water.  We all had our own set of challenges in dealing with the flat light and...

Thanks for the TR. I got a lot of good photos. One of these days I need to go digital because messing with slides is a lot of work. Here a pic of Josh and Phil climbing near the bottom of the couloir http://cascadecrusades.org/picoftheweek/picoftheweeknov20.htm I should have thrown a ski pic in there...call me lazy...

I like Pie too.

Steve:
We were the two that were skiing down as you were approaching the Crest......If I was looking at the same mountain goats, they were huge! Looked like a heard of white cattle...anyways, great day. June 4th and one of the best ski days of the year!

http://wxpro.ipilot.com/
Here's a good way to find the ceiling at your slider destination. This site also has other cool weather info not found on many weather links.
-Aaron

Sometimes the best part of backcountry skiing is the social aspects of the process, especially when plans go wrong and creativity needs to be at it's peak.  That's when the folks you cavort with can be the most fun.
Good call, matey's, says I  ;).

Yikes about the car.  I leave mine there all the time, and I figured it's a pretty safe place, because there seems to be strong police presence there. (In fact, there was a cop driving around there at 4:30am on Saturday).

Maybe the all the police is a sign that it's not a good spot...

... pictures of squirrels infiltrating "squirrel-proof" birdfeeders...

photos
1. 7am. Allyson at camp.  no Snowy this time.
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