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Gang: nice photos and video! it looked like a beautiful day.
Cass: glad you're stil in one piece. ;D
Cass: glad you're stil in one piece. ;D
Is plummer's chute the real tight one visible from the road on the way to paradise?
The tight chute you speak of may possibly be Zippers off of Lane Peak. There's also Lovers Lane too, which at the moment looks suicidal.
I'm trying to learn more about the paradise/tatoosh area at mrnp. Is plummer's chute the real tight one visible from the road on the way to paradise? The one I'm thinking of looks STEEP and appears to go up looker's right when viewed from the road. If so, how steep/tight is it?
Nice TR- Glad you were able to make it out after the knee-twist.
Good to hear that conditions were good on the Anniversary Glacier....The peaks in that area (Joffre and Matier) are awesome (sorta reminds me a bit of the Stuart Range). I was up at Keith's hut a couple years ago on President's Day weekend (in a good snow year), skiing mostly shallow-angle slopes just below treeline (owing to poor visibility and somewhat sketchy avy conditions); but the Anniversary Glacier looked like it w...
Good to hear that conditions were good on the Anniversary Glacier....The peaks in that area (Joffre and Matier) are awesome (sorta reminds me a bit of the Stuart Range). I was up at Keith's hut a couple years ago on President's Day weekend (in a good snow year), skiing mostly shallow-angle slopes just below treeline (owing to poor visibility and somewhat sketchy avy conditions); but the Anniversary Glacier looked like it w...
Scott, your trip reports would be more useful if they included information on conditions: stability, aspect, pitch, surface, ski penetration, road reports, snow levels, depth, temperatures, routes, elevation....or whatever else seems relevant.
Conditions: Sunny Fu**ing bluebird
Stability: Some people think I'm crazy
Aspect Pitch:
1st Run: 35
2nd run: 25
3rd Run: 40
4th run: (table/herman saddle) 30-35
Surface: Wind bl...
Thanks for sharing the pics Ron and Jeanette! and nice viddy Jerry! ;) Great seeing all of you out there! It looks like your crew found some nice snow in/near the trees! 8)
We found some nice powdery snow in the trees on our descent, though our exit gully was a bit tight and rocky in places....with some ...
We found some nice powdery snow in the trees on our descent, though our exit gully was a bit tight and rocky in places....with some ...
Nice photo. I like the way the compressed perspective leads down the ridge to the Park Glacier.
Scott, your trip reports would be more useful if they included information on conditions: stability, aspect, pitch, surface, ski penetration, road reports, snow levels, depth, temperatures, routes, elevation....or whatever else seems relevant.
Scott, your trip reports would be more useful if they included information on conditions: stability, aspect, pitch, surface, ski penetration, road reports, snow levels, depth, temperatures, routes, elevation....or whatever else seems relevant.
Yeah, Great Viddy, Jerman.
Many thanks to you and Dan for that.
It has joined the others in my personal archives.
Many thanks to you and Dan for that.
It has joined the others in my personal archives.
Nice pictures everyone! I will try to get mine posted as well.
Cass's crack cleanup was clearly the highlight of the day...but really this was only a partial wipe ;)
It was a real fun day and great to see the sky clearing up more and more throughout the day.
Great to see the RonJ crew again as well for the second week in a row :)
Cass's crack cleanup was clearly the highlight of the day...but really this was only a partial wipe ;)
It was a real fun day and great to see the sky clearing up more and more throughout the day.
Great to see the RonJ crew again as well for the second week in a row :)
You guy's are always nice to me, so here you go: another cheesy video for you all.
Challenging conditions at times, but all in all another splendid day in the mountains! Great to run into the Cass/Skip patrol, wish I could have filmed Cass wiping the Plummer's Crack 8) Kelvin your boards are awesome! Keep it up! See you all soon! --- Jerry
Challenging conditions at times, but all in all another splendid day in the mountains! Great to run into the Cass/Skip patrol, wish I could have filmed Cass wiping the Plummer's Crack 8) Kelvin your boards are awesome! Keep it up! See you all soon! --- Jerry
You're right about how Skip's picture makes the slope angle look deceptively shallow, Chris.
If memory serves, the last time I skied that chute the slope angle in the hourglass section of the chute (which is where you appear to be) is something like 40 degrees plus. I think part of the deception is that the ski stuck in the snow lines up with the vertical edge of the picture and it leads us to believe that it is stuck in the snow vertical when in reality it is probably leanin...
If memory serves, the last time I skied that chute the slope angle in the hourglass section of the chute (which is where you appear to be) is something like 40 degrees plus. I think part of the deception is that the ski stuck in the snow lines up with the vertical edge of the picture and it leads us to believe that it is stuck in the snow vertical when in reality it is probably leanin...
Nice job you guys, thanks for sharing your photo's, the "crack" is one of my favorites, but NOT yesterday ;D. It has to be corn on the crack for me 8)
Well done photography Skip! ;)
Funny how the Plummer's Crack chute is actually much steeper than it appears in the picture, but nice job capturing by photo the peculiar landing spot of my ski.
Funny how the Plummer's Crack chute is actually much steeper than it appears in the picture, but nice job capturing by photo the peculiar landing spot of my ski.
Those were our tire and skin tracks you followed...
We were there on Saturday, and the weather was bluebird -- so much for a "chance of snow". We only got a few short runs in up on the ridge, off the false summit on pk 5988, before my gf started tossing her lunch for reasons unknown and we had to beat a hasty retreat. Had to be back in Seattle by 6 anyway, but abandoning untracked powder is always tough. We skied all the way back to the car, cutting off the grassy switchbacks via a...
We were there on Saturday, and the weather was bluebird -- so much for a "chance of snow". We only got a few short runs in up on the ridge, off the false summit on pk 5988, before my gf started tossing her lunch for reasons unknown and we had to beat a hasty retreat. Had to be back in Seattle by 6 anyway, but abandoning untracked powder is always tough. We skied all the way back to the car, cutting off the grassy switchbacks via a...
I've never seen so many tracks out by the pinnacle in 10 years of touring up that way. It looked like a heli-ski operation had been running out there.
Yanna (and Sasha, the almost 12 year old dog, who loved following the firm uptracks running everywhere almost as much as she loved diving down the steep pow on a firm-ish base) and I got out for some north facing powder yesterday, in a quiet little area closer to the ski area that had a few tracks from prior days but no one with us and fres...
Yanna (and Sasha, the almost 12 year old dog, who loved following the firm uptracks running everywhere almost as much as she loved diving down the steep pow on a firm-ish base) and I got out for some north facing powder yesterday, in a quiet little area closer to the ski area that had a few tracks from prior days but no one with us and fres...
We skied as much as we could on all north slopes just east of the coleman pinnacle down to the basin and drainage. A good 1000 foot drops it seemed like.
I am still giddy from the effortless turns we had in the baking sun :)
I am still giddy from the effortless turns we had in the baking sun :)
So, Scott, did you pretty much stick to north facing aspects?
The Ptarmigan Ridge/Coleman Pinnacles area has given me my best day of skiing in two years about 10 times already this winter. Tomorrow, I hope, will make eleven!
Yeah, I noticed the crust developing on sun affected slopes like Edelwiess but North Facing is still super nice, or at least it was on Tuesday. I'm sure that crust will be corn soon enough with the forecast we have.
Skiing was bad today.
Who care about the skiing, skinning with Dynafits beats any good day of skiing!
I even got a blister, thanks to the TLT4s.
Your Dynafits will prefer if you call them "love marks".
PS: Excellent photo Greg!
Skiing was bad today. Skinned to the summit in 1hr 10 minutes, courtesy of Dynafit. Circumstances prevented me from skiing upper nash, so I 'skied' Edelweiss bowl instead. 2" sun crust. Wild jumps to buttchecks were the order of the day.
The snow beneath the Armstrong Express is getting better but still quite bad.
I made five powder turns though, so it was definitely worth it.
I made a momentous discovery today: the lighter the gear, the better it goes uphill, and the...
The snow beneath the Armstrong Express is getting better but still quite bad.
I made five powder turns though, so it was definitely worth it.
I made a momentous discovery today: the lighter the gear, the better it goes uphill, and the...
Nice photo.
Yeah didn't end up skiing Wednesday, I've been having back problems and strained it a bit on Tuesday. But the awesome conditions Sun-Tues have me pretty stoked. I'll hopefully be back on the hill on Sunday, and I'm on vacation next week if any of y'all might be up at the Alp.
Yeah didn't end up skiing Wednesday, I've been having back problems and strained it a bit on Tuesday. But the awesome conditions Sun-Tues have me pretty stoked. I'll hopefully be back on the hill on Sunday, and I'm on vacation next week if any of y'all might be up at the Alp.
Cem,
You should put skijouring in your title, I have a friend who is really into that who posts on this site. I am sure he would be interested in swapping dog stories with you.
You should put skijouring in your title, I have a friend who is really into that who posts on this site. I am sure he would be interested in swapping dog stories with you.
Here is more picture
south sister
Labs like deep powder too.
Lava Flow
South Sister and Lewis Glacier
south sister
Labs like deep powder too.
Lava Flow
South Sister and Lewis Glacier
Sounds like you had a good day, will look forward to meeting you and your girlfriend sometime on the mt. 8)
woa! I'm just now catching-up on this thread (been outta-town for a few days); Great pics as always! ;) Nice report Ron! Looks like the "geezers" had yet another nice stash all to themselves ;) Fortunately there was lots of room for fresh tracks at Mazama Bowl; nice seeing/meeting everyone out there last Sunday!
Michael (aka nordic ned): excellent photos... ;)
i love you man.
- Mr. K. A. Sutra.
Thanks Dr. Asutra. Love you too Tele Ted.
It's good we are so close to Valentine's day :-)
Paul: Kam, Kelvin and i are actually thinking/working on that. the idear is to build a standard base plate that mounts to a ski, and the top plate (with whatever binding) "slips and locks" in place. it'll make sharing our skis more convenient. any idears you can offer will help. like what color? ;)
-kam
-kam
Kam, can you guys come out with an insert pattern that fits Dynafits, Fritschis, Silverettas, and tele bindings? I'll buy some if/when you do. ;)
Nice report, Markey.
Thanks for the info.
Oh, and Welcome :)
Thanks for the info.
Oh, and Welcome :)
Uhhh . . . sure! Do I have to tele?
..unless you want to pay EXTRA to cover the "AT" tax. ;D
I'm presuming that you're giving the championship for 'icy death ramp' to Baker's Chair One. When I snowboarded there (and in most ways I'd consider myself intermediate at it) I would have at best 70% success rate at ramps on 1,4/5 and 6 but fortunately the latter 2 have been fixed up since. Then there's the old Thunderbird ramp at Summit - remember that? Whee!
More on topic, went up Alpental this morning 2/17. Sessel was pretty cut up and not that much fun. Lower I had some good spots bu...
More on topic, went up Alpental this morning 2/17. Sessel was pretty cut up and not that much fun. Lower I had some good spots bu...
It's called Edelweiss chair, or chair 2, both of which are made perfectly clear by the sign on the lift reading "Chair 17."
At the top, incidentally, is the state's runner up for the "icy death ramp" ski lift run-out award. Intermediate snowboarders pile up 3 deep at times.
At the top, incidentally, is the state's runner up for the "icy death ramp" ski lift run-out award. Intermediate snowboarders pile up 3 deep at times.
Greg: lookin' good. that's a nice photo!! but it looks like you need fatter skis ;). btw, Kelvin and i are thinking about laying up a pair of 140mm (at the waist) with zero camber. wanna test ride 'em for us ?? ;D
Hey, I'd like to see the KamSki works . . . what are the dimensions on the "skinny" one?
skinny? i don't know what you're talking about.
the black pair shown above, called the Klown Whackers (or to some, Klown Kickers), have dimensions: 130-95-125mm, length 177.2334 cm.
And the fat one, is that the "ahma", as in "yo real mama" for Chinese kids?
you got i...
Glad to hear that the snow is still soft up there. Nice photo!
Hey, I'd like to see the KamSki works . . . what are the dimensions on the "skinny" one? And the fat one, is that the "ahma", as in "yo real mama" for Chinese kids?
Yeah I remember speaking with a few skiers up there. Were you the one I offered the share our shelter with? Though brief, it was nice to met you.
I was one of those skiers who gave up on the summer route ;) I think I met you guys while you were digging your shelter.
That giant pack of snowshoers was a boy scout troop apparently. They looked pretty cold and whiney ;D
That giant pack of snowshoers was a boy scout troop apparently. They looked pretty cold and whiney ;D
hey nice pics michael and kamo...you guys sure do know how to make folks look cool :D...and as for the geezers, well, you sure do know how to make folks jealous, what with all your "secret stashes" and all! :) nice report, and, clever names for the runs too.
TP wrote: 'Silas (who continues to call Jeff "Jerry").'
Hey, I'm lucky I remember anything from that trip. I guess we really did take lots of breaks, but none for food or drink, just to take skins off or put them back on.
Some of us were in such a hurry we kept one skin on during the descents, so we didn't have to waste time putting it back on for the uphill; sounds like one of the Southern group at Paradise uses that strategy, too.
Apolog...
Hey, I'm lucky I remember anything from that trip. I guess we really did take lots of breaks, but none for food or drink, just to take skins off or put them back on.
Some of us were in such a hurry we kept one skin on during the descents, so we didn't have to waste time putting it back on for the uphill; sounds like one of the Southern group at Paradise uses that strategy, too.
Apolog...
Define geezer.........
Well, hmmmm, let's see this year I'm going to be the speed limit ;) 8)