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Excellent tour, thanks for the pics and report!
That south line on Dome looks worthy. I've only skied the N Face of Sinister, and it left quite an impression--a fantastic line with great position looking out over the Ptarmigan traverse peaks. Glad you found it in good conditions, which appears similar to my experience (but much later in a v robust season).
Nice, Eddie!
To this day I’ve always just assumed some hardcore Snoq Pass local skied that thing with no rope long before I started faffing around in the valley and posting about it on the internet 😂 🤷♂️.
Sounds spicy! I have looked up at those gullies under the coxcomb and wondered. I don't think many people, if any, have traveled through there. Way to come out of it all good.
Nice work, those are some fun lines! I’ve got fond memories of that day with Tabke. Every time I’m on the Coleman since then I look up at the elephant trunk, it’s been interesting see it change over the years, sometimes I think the ice recession is making it less challenging, but other times it seems much more difficult. Depends on that years snowpack I imagine.
super rad. nice work!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/4o4jGG6VZSa3CoWX6
^ photos of Tim's crew riding the Coleman headwall
SO GREAT! I can't really imagine skiing from that summit but I'm glad somebody can. That's certainly one of the proudest descents in the range. Well done!
Quite the linkup of a bunch of steep faces in powder no less!
Sick!
It seems like the elephant trunk is widening as the glacier recedes, especially comparing Drew and your photos.
Funnily enough, I watched Jere Burrell snowboard this line last spring on the same day your crew was riding the Coleman headwall (I still owe you photos, will deliver).
Thunder's upper headwall is much thinner than in years past. I was up there on April 5, the headwall was sick pow, but the upper section connector looked too rocky and thin for my margin...
That face really is a sweet line. Quite a treat to get alpine pow and then corn in the same run.
I'm psyched you guys got the Royal with Corn instead of the Royal with Shaved Ice or Cheese. Good choice avoiding the rap
Maybe one of the more unlikely summits you can ski from in the lower 48 if not world. Nice one Wherly!
Nice work! Using that free time wisely.
Tried to include a photo here of the route from January but can't get the forum to let me 🙈
Kamtron has been alerting me to your exploits or I might have missed this. Love to see it. I think we had a 60m for rapping the divide and needed 40m of it, but that’s just a guess and probably depends on the snowpack 🤷♂️
Awesome! Havent checked out TAY in forever and was stoked to see this TR first thing. Always wondered if someone would ever score this line in pow, it would be a wild ride. Nice one Hedonaut! pretty special lil summit to be on solo with your skis
One correction I wanted to make: Ben Price, Seth Holton, Nick Ley, and Kevin skied this route in 2014: https://www.flickr.com/photos/vermontbmx/albums/72157643385615283/with/13615280723.
I failed to mention their trip report in my blurb at the start of the report. Didn't intend to misrepresent anything, just a dumb omission on my par...
Went and got this done yesterday with Brendan. We were able to enter from the Sisters glacier side and skied the line top-down. Unfortunately, about the same kind of runnely conditions as last time, but fun position for some steep turns.
hey I haven't check TAY in a while, cool to click in and catch this
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Awesome!! I saw your NWAC observation and I was interested to hear the whole story. Looks like a fun and beautiful trip!
Great trip report, thanks for taking the time to post it. Well written with stunning photos.
Our crew was a fair bit east of you in the Selkirks in, shall we say, more pedestrian terrain. However, we did share your suffering up similar "hilarious...double back diamond...triple-riser...steep skinners." The locals are a tougher lot than us. Straight up, no problem. But the sun made the 2° feel warm and the skiing was good. When you stand on top of those BC mountains and do a 360, you se...
Nice write up, pics, and trip! Way to snag a classic linkup, thanks for posting
Ah, nice. I knew Drew got it with one rap, I hadn't heard of the no rap descent. Not surprising though! If you can dream it up at the pass, it's probably been done ;)
14.5k' in a day is incredible. Thank you for the post! very inspirational.
Nicely done, that side of Spider looks relatively friendly!
Impressive! How did you figure out access?
https://turns-all-year.com/trip-reports/april-26-2014-chair-peak-e-ne
this website still kind of works
OMG what an amazing trip! And your packs look TINY!
Chair Peak has had a few ski descents, starting in 2006 with Sky and Wehrly... I believe only Tabke has skied the entirety without rappels.
Whether it's the Snot or Chair Peak clean descents (if possible), definitely elevate the purity of a line.
Usually best done in March/April-ish, with peak snow coverage, for lines like this.
I *think* it was skied with no rappels, but can't recall the details.
Awesome trip! Very cool to get all the way out to Logan in the winter. That’s deep
It really does look like the sill glacier ice is nearly gone. Kind of nice to think that if I ever decide to try the CJ that those ice blocks might not be above me.
Cool to see a report from this area, thanks
And no disrespect indented to you, either. Way to go and get it. It's not easy finding some of the older TRs, but we stand on their shoulders.
Fair enough! I was not aware that there are well established name for those lines, and there's little trace of them on the internet other than the report Sam just published. No disrespect intended to the first parties.
Nice work, sounds like a successful weekend.
Can't say I agree with advocating for renaming, altering, or adding to the names of lines tho.
Both those Cascade pass lines already have names. One a common name, as far as I can tell, NE Couloir on Mixup, and another, a given name by the first party. There's no AKA.
Nicely done finding the goods, Sam
Thank you for posting this TR....so great! Love the psyche.
@jasongriffith being retired certainly helps!
I'm continually impressed by the volume of high quality skiing you pull off, season after season. Sheesh!