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Thanx.  Can't wait to read what you guys and gals found!

BTW I think I'm starting to go thru powder withdrawls now. ;D

We were also out and about the artist point area in what turned out to be a glorious bluebird powder day.  We noted about 6 inches of fresh atop an icy, consolidated base.  We yoyo'd the area all day and didn't notice any avy activity except for the normal avy debris around table mountain.  

Also, I'm just trying to get my topography right, but hank did you mean bagley lakes??  I thought iceberg lake was one of the lakes on the south-westish side of herman saddle. &nbs...

Silas,
I remember you saying you didn't think you were going to get some skiing in! I'm glad you proved yourself wrong!!! I hope you bring some of the good snow vibes our way...see you soon!

~Lara

Jerry - great video and music.  Get more film of you skiing!

Well Done Again, Jerry!!
Nice use of the Crickets.  It really gets you rockin'.
Rock on  8)

Nice Video Tim

It was good to catch up with you again....and to meet Rod and Jeff. Saturday was heaven compared to Mount Baker's opening day...tons of people and very little snow.

Sounds like folks were all over the place on that thin rug of November snow! Did you see or hear any evidence of  folks on the CD glacier on Saturday?  Bennett's car was missing from Maple Falls and never appeared at the MBRC upper parking lot.

Nice location for a trip! I would like to try the ridge on the other side of the Lake Ann before 20 closes this year... Last spring when skiing Black peak, we had scoped out those valleys as alternate routes to avoid the avalanche prone traverse from heather pass to lewis lake, and to possibly shorten the trip.

From arial photos, it actually looked like the valley draining Wing Lake rather than the one draining Lewis Lake had more potential for a ski descent (one valley to the north) - L...

We were in the Goat Rocks in July, had the entire place to ourselves, and stupidly neglected to bring snow sliding implements. I think mid to late June would be a good compromise in terms of fairly easy access (the very good trail would be mostly melted out) and still-good snow. It looked like this:

Gotta love those bonus hours.  

Kinda worked in reverse this time though.

Mark,

Glancing at the map, it looks as though a person could work his or her way down to the valley floor in one particular section--the trouble was we couldn't find it.  My thought afterward was we didn't head far enough northeast (the thought at the time being that we were already too far northeast).  If I'm right, it would have required our getting across a sketchy chute and would have been a steep run [read: downclimb] through thick, thick trees.  I could be completely...

Wow, I'm jealous! Neat photos (both of you)

Wolfs, the summit has a new Alpental Web cam:

I went up on Saturday for a few turns.  Awesome day to be out.  Clear skies and just enough cover to hide the rocks.  I started out a t 9:00AM  to the top of Skyline and made a few good turns with only hitting one rock!

Niiiice.
Looks like the Skipper got a new pack.

Yep, Jer,
Yer viddy productions are definately turning into keepers.
Thanks for the efforts; they're really appreciated.

Very nice viddy, JW, that one's in the archives.

I offer a short clip of this trip @

I was going to go to Stevens in the afternoon. But since I was getting a late start, I decided to check out Snoqualmie/Alpental instead. Wrong move. Not nearly enough snow there for even my low standards, so not a turn was made at Alpental. It will need four times as much snow as there is there now. Nothing in the surrounding mountains accessible from the Sno Pass area looks any good either. Your pix further confirm that I went to the wrong damn pass today  >:(

Dare to dream Toby...dare to dream!

I stole that saying from a Canadian beer commercial!!!

Thanks for all the info Charles...atleast I've got a few options.

If you have some "web space", for example from your ISP, you could probably put your photos there and then link to them from your TRs. You wouldn't have to make them accessible through your own web pages, although maybe you want to do that anyway. There are also other free photo hosts (eg MSN) which do seem to allow the kind of linking that Webshots blocks.

Matt C, thanks for the report and very nice photos. I looked at the code you used to insert the photo in your post - it looks OK and the URL works if you paste it into the browser address bar. I think others have found that Webshots blocks the displaying of their site's photo files on other sites, so I don't know that there is any way around this except to put your photos somewhere else.

Encouraging report.

I would agree with Tim. If you wanna get to know the Baker BC you should check out an avalanche clinic. I think it's Baker policy to have some avalanche knowledge along with proper equipment if you wanna use the lifts to access the BC terrain. Talk to people as you ride the lift this year to see where the goods can be found...I will probably be one of them.