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Greetings from Sunny Portland!  (Today anyway)  This is my first post, but have been a fan of this page for quite some time.  
Isn't that a picture from this trip on the front page of Telemarktips.com?

Hi neighbor.  So, I'm sitting mid-point in a mountain of steel,conrete and glass today and reading your trip report....

You know..... even if  your skies are gouged by lava rocks (but not lost), both poles are bent, most of the trip vertical is completed by sliding on various body parts, mosquitoes draw 4 pints of blood on the way to and from the "stash", you're lost for two days bushwacking because your GPS batteries died - and then another day 'cause you saw a nice s...

Yeah, it's something, as opposed to nothing, but not much of a discernable difference. Can't wait to try it when the basin's full of pow and not "ow"...Greg ;)

I was up there on saturday...expected conditions to be awful considering all the rain and A.Carey's observations from earlier in the week, but man what a pleasant suprise....as Corey said the snowfield was in fine form. The lower snowfield was a patchwork of new snow and old dirty ice but the upper snowfield was just what I was hoping for...fast smooth clean corn snow...couldn't believe that all the cracks on the snowfield were already filled in.
Looking forward to November when I can leave t...

Sounds like some of the new has survived up there; good show, Corey.  Just so you know, I would have loaned you some sunglasses... they might have even been non-perscription!!  8)

You're getting pretty close to the bottom of the barrel, Jimmy.
Greg, I'm looking forward to seeing what you gound in those two locations.

Well, Jimmyclimb, your luck in finding some length of carvable snow was reasonable, given our current weather conditions. A group of friends and I celebrated my 72d month (and Lara Pazemenas' 27th) by attempting the Pinnacle "Glacier", and then making 3 turns numerous times at the summit of Plummer Peak. We traded a long slog for a short turn fest. I'll tell more later, when the photographic evidence shows up!

Great job, doing it on Friday. It must have been some kind of solitud...

Indeed the short term looks very bleak! >:( Even more so when this month's genuflections are not complete. >:(

Woulda been better if I actually had rock boards! 8) Good exercise . Hey my thermometer just dropped below 60 , there may be hope !

Silas, now that all of the new snow is gone (according to Andy's report), we don't have to be worried about it getting skied out before we return and we can tell the whole truth: the snow was so good on Sunday that we did two runs!

There will be a few photos from this trip on TAY home page beginning Monday, 11/27.

http://www.students.washington.edu/pbelitz/HoodOct_19_03/HoodOct_19_03.html

;D

You got to skin from the car! I'm jealous. Nice trip.

I paid attention while skinning on Sunday...and I concluded that the tap only sounds if a. you don't know how to skin, or b. when you have to set your skin particularly well. I love the step-in when I have frozen hands and cramping calves.  ;D

Have you seen the Fritschi light?  ;D

no need to downsize - they weren't impressive enough!  8)

Paul - as for this weekend, I'm not sure yet...my skis are torn apart for the new bindings I'll be putting on.  i'd have to bum off Sky or Ben who both have 2 sets.

Thanks for both of the reports. Paul, when I looked at yours, only the first photo loaded - the rest had broken link icons (I think there's a "\" instead of a "/" in the URLs for those).

I have no idea where we were, but on TOPO you can see that you have to cross some ice to get to the cleaver proper. I'm going back to bag that line from the summit this winter. I was feeling stronger than I expected, but continuing unroped would have been dumb, and roping up would have taken too much time, being that cold/wet.

PS, Jeff wants to get out and get miserable again on Sunday. You in?

Nice report Sky, and I like the idea of covering up your boots with a grocery bag!  Great turns in the video.

2 old farts ;D ;D ;D ;D

Dave, what are you tripping on?  ;) I was arguing that I'll use skins when they are most efficient. Here they WERE more efficient. You should have come along, the views were incredible.  8) 8) ;D ;D

PS, it was nice to have the skis on when we were crossing crevasses that had barely any bridge. Sky tried to ski into one on the way down, but failed. So your argument makes *some* sense.  ;D

Heck, looks like you guys didn't even get rained on!  8) Nice viddy, BTW. I gotta get some rock skis.

Fearing blue skies and calm winds in the forecast for Monday, a couple of the boys and I went up to Paradise Sunday to beat the nice weather.  

It was raging: low clouds spitting wet snow in strong winds; whiteout.  What better time to beat the crowd for first tracks? This, at least, is what I kept telling the boys.  They bought into it until ~7100', after which further coaxing became difficult as communication was relegated to hand signals.  

We pushed on in the gale to where they...

Good show, gang.
It's great to hear there's some coverage up there.
Hopefully we'll get some more this week.
Sag - we'll be seeing you at happy hour on Thursday!!

The higher you went the better it got. We went up to Camp Muir. About 200 feet below camp the wind had cleaned a strip of about 40 ft of its fresh harvest the rest was beautifully wind packed powder with lots of unpacked pockets down to moon rocks and I have to say this part again because it just makes me grin. All the way down to the parking lot.