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"chris c. 1998" is envious of Skip's great skiing form, your lady friend should be impressed  ;D
(Kam- Thanks for not posting the photo of my face-plant).  Sure was some of the best WALLOWING I've experienced; that great slow-motion feeling of "bulldozing" down the fall line at 3 mph!!!

kam,

That backseat-driving image of Chris would be even funnier if it wasn't me.  Now you know why I'm so smooth with the ladies.

Alas, we again find all too evident the plight of the tragic hero that is me.

That is indeed a nice helmet Mad Dog. If you used paint, are you concerned about the paint weakening the helmet?

My girlfriend's previous boyfriend painted her helmet. I'm trying to convince her to retire it for "safety" issues. You can see it here:
http://64.42.93.168/photos/rebeccaPublic/IMG_0056.jpg

I even contacted Black Diamond and they recommended she retire it.

Gaper Jeffey

That was a tough bunch of skiers up there. I din't hit any trees ! And never scratched a rock either. Andy can you comment on the effects of all that wind? Leaving and skiing down mazama it was a little slabby from being side loaded.

Nice report, Charles.
Strider - here's to a rapid mend of that hip.
Nice pics Jerry.  It was definately not good weather for photos.
Great day gang, thanks.
What pics I could get are at:
http://groups.msn.com/WildHeartsSkiing/paradise111603.msnw

I did the same trip today :) but I didn't see any of your tracks, so i'm not sure you're telling the truth ;), but the wind was still there as well as continuous snow and good skiing  ??? so I hope it holds for tomorrow as Regine came out tonight ... abc

Nice report, was wondering what the snow was like out there. Hard to see with my beady eyes, here at near sea level, hip cobbled together with baling wire and tape, trying to think of escape to wide open places snow and wind stinging the face, left to  peering out from behind the cutains wife and family draging me back nooooooooo.... noooooooooooo... i want to go skiiiiiiiinnnngg  helppppppppppppaagh. ;)

Ps Markoff you survived a season down after you snapped yur tib/fib how'd y...

Not even "ugly," you say, but maybe "hideous".  Guess I made the right decision by staying home on Wednesday.  But what's this about the Deadhorse Road?  Washed out?  Impassable until next summer?  

Some Bellingham Herald reporter drove out to Glacier to ask about the coming ski season.  You two burly backcountry skiers seem to have come up in a conversation with Drew Adams, but it sounds like you hadn't yet returned bearing tales of heino...

Thanks for the timely report! From the photo, the snow does look like it was good, and hopefully will be the same tomorrow when I head to the area.

It never stops playiing in my head.

Robie, the only time that drum solo never stops playing in my head is after a very hard night!  ;D

Greg, as much as you hoped to have escaped the local news, Channel 5 did have a shot of you as you tightened your waiststrap one last time before heading up the hill.  (I was wondering if the phantom skier was anyone I knew).  Joyce, (channel 5 newscaster) did comment: "Is that a skier I just saw, and the other newscasters comment was, yes, it's one of "those" cross country skiers,  ;D ??? and from the looks of this weather, I'm sure they're not going to have much f...

oh do tell

Greg
Just Like Dr. John said "If I don't do it somebody else will" :D Lets hope for enough snow to be riding lifts at Stevens by Thanksgiving. I always enjoyed the LONG version of "inagaddadavida" and by the time the song ended you'd forget the beginning and have to start all over again!  ;D

Wow - that image reminded me of just too many things that I had blocked from my memory. I think I'll try to focus on snow and rocks for a while...

"With a Little Luck" is a Wings'.

The ones used by the SNOTEL system measure the weight of the snow on top of them.

Here is a link to the SNOTEL site for Paradise -- it is currently reading a snow-water* reading of 1.2 inches.

http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/snotel/snotel.pl?sitenum=679&state=wa

*snow-water  is the depth of water created if all the snow on the sensor were melted.

Link works fine.  "Living on the Edge" was a bit much though  ;)

Todd, I've got a couple of questions for you about using your photos - check your TRs messages.

You are more than welcome.  It was nice to get out.  It was just depressing to see the snow field so bad.   And of course all the rocks that I hit.

...oh, and I realized that I missed page 4 on section D of the paper, Paul, so I shall rehash later.   Think snow!! ;D

Greg several years ago I did the Pinnacle 'Glacier' ??? thing w/ Ron and Mad Dog and with all the laps we did it came to about 1,000 ft. As soon as I got home Charles I put this trip out of my mind and focused on the season in front of us, for the 12 hour turn around from door to door it was long for the couple dozen turns we got! The views of Hood, Adams, Goat Rocks, and St Helens to the south were great and were a good a reward as possible. 8) Lets do a little snow dance and hope this current...

Hey Paul, this last-day-of-the-month ski seems to be getting to be a habit for you (at least for October)! Don't you worry that your car might break down on the way, you might have a wreck, etc? I always imagine endless scenarios whereby my streak gets broken due to leaving it to the last day.

This time of year (i.e. before there is enough snow to ski on) the telemetry snow depth sensors are actually "bush height" sensors. As the disclaimer says, please use common sense when interpreting the data.

telemetry is whacked; this a.m. according to the ranger there was 3 inches on the ground; Sat there was unevern coverage of 0-5 inches with most new in the path/trail.  Ice was dirty brown old ice.  >:(

That's OK. You made more turns today than anyone I know, except for Ron Cram, the "Official World Record Holder For The Most Consecutive Months Of Skiing" (self-proclaimed). He sent me pix from Palmer on Hood today, and there's less snow there than at Muir.

Keep on turnin'...Greg Lange