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Thanks for the report!

I thought at first that this TR was for Snowfield Peak...

Way to get out still given the marginal forecast! Weird looking squirrel

Thanks Tim. I mis-recalled where they cached their skis. Haven't heard of any other attempts, fwiw. Hope I didn't come across as that cranky guy, "it's all been skied before on three pins and leather boots"...

Do you think the last upper bit could ever get enough snow to begin sliding off the summit? Cool spot with that giant cairn.

Neat tour, would like to repeat someday.

During the big snow year of 1999, Garth Ferber and I skied the SW Face of Buckner as a loop. At that time you could still drive to the Cascade Pass trailhead. We bivied at the Boston Basin trailhead and climbed over Sharkfin Col to the Boston Glacier. We climbed the N Face of Buckner and skied the SW flank, returning to the car via Cascade Pass. We were able to ski most of the way down the North Fork Cascade River basin to the road, rather than walking the trail. The trip was done on July 20,...

@hedonaut, I found this report from Oyvind but it sounds like they left skis at the bottom of the W Face: 

https://turns-all-year.com/trip-reports/may-1-2009-golden-horn-and-tower-mountain 

Thanks Kam for the great day and planning and executing that route! 

My favorite part of the day was skating around the corner on the Sisters glacier and coming up on the top of that line at the end of Mythic ridge with the whole Green Creek glacier below.   

Nice looking ski, Tim.

Do you think you could have just dropped into the N face from your position atop Buckner? In that case, approaching as you did makes sense, although it prevents you from scoping conditions on the gnarly line.

Awesome! Was it easy to get into horseshoe basin? I always assumed there was some kinda shenanigans getting over there. I have a funny relationship with Buckner! Ive prolly been into the area to ski Buckner over 5 times and have yet to step foot on that mountain!! Maybe its time to give up on the north face and give the sw face a go, looks like a longer ski run anyways!

Looks like good clean no-stress fun. Nice timing.

I'll send some info your way. The short version: we took a higher-than-standard --climber's right -- col/notch near Sharkfin to ski down to the Boston Gl. No rap required. It would have been possible to climb back out that way, but we carried on the Forbidden circuit after skiing N face Buckner. I'll try to find my June? tr...

Nice route, Kam! Way to connect our previously visited zones.  Glad you got to ski that shot you remarked on down to Green Creek. Gotta get back there with you again, fun touring range.

Very cool guys, lovely TR and photos

Thanks Kamtron! This area has gone to the top of my short list. What is the gate/road status coming in from the NW?

Awesome looking trip! Beautiful steep lines….

Wow, super inspired! Any chance you could post a map with your route?

Some more pictures

Thanks for the report. Great to hear about the big lines. Tough spring in the Teanaway for south faces.

I called it the NE Couloir because it descends to the NE.

Thanks.  Always amazed at how fast that melts out.  Planning on going up Beverly and down Bean shortly.

What an aesthetic line, guys.  Inspiring

Tim, you gotta be a little more gentle with your partners. If they all end up in crevasses or with blown knees, you are going to be doing a lot of solo skiing. :-)

Bonus points if anyone can explain why this is called the NE, not the NW, couloir.

filbo, thanks for the report, particularly liked the quote from Spike, I hope to have that grit. As I slogged up the hill yesterday , white rain falling on my head, every step taking me up another foot of what would surly be sticky skiing slop, I had a few good turns, and a beer in the parking lot. Making it all totally worth the time. It’s a crazy addiction we have.

@kamtron sorry to hear you're struggling with the recovery also, but given our current snowpack and weather, you have some time to recover before the corn cycle! The general declining trend of the Eastern Sierra snowpack has been very sad. Looking at the multi decade trend, they used to regularly get incredible amounts of snow, more reminiscent of the central Cascades! The last decade has been rough down there. I hope it is just some multi year variability and not a permanent fixture.

Thanks for the report!

You're lucky the hit wasn't directly underfoot. If it flexes more than usual, the core is suspect. Edge is cracked which isn't great, but from the looks of things the edge seems to have taken the brunt of the hit more than the ski itself. Is that dark/light line on the base near the cracked edge due to the impact or something to do with your skins or wax?

I would try to hammer the edge flat and fill in everything with a slow-cure epoxy, then clamp it all in place with some parchment o...

Great trip report. It brings back memories of a visit years ago. 😀

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