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May 27-29, 2017, Glacier Peak, Cool Glacier HW -Vid

thank you for your report Dan. it is very good to "see" you here.
great line!

Oyvind

6/5/17 2:34pm

Midwest2Northwest

Great TR! GP is a type 2 gem ;)

6/5/17 2:09pm

Midwest2Northwest

author=water link=topic=38569.msg156143#msg156143 date=1496439148]
anyone willing to relay the beta for the direct exit to morrison ck CG? I have always traversed back to the Crescent "glacier" area and had a nice little run from there down to cold springs.

topo and looking at creek, just veer east at bottom of chutes like normal but instead of traverse keep dropping and make sure to stay on west side of the creek? anything more?

6/5/17 2:08pm

Kyle Miller

Welcome back Dan! Great to see that you are back at it!!

6/5/17 1:52pm

hedonaut

May 20, 2017, Mt. Hood N Face, Left Hand ski

Aaaahhh yeah

6/5/17 11:27am

skykilo

Looks awesome. Beautiful lines indeed.

6/5/17 10:33am

skykilo

Yeah Dan!

6/5/17 10:23am

caverpilot

author=water link=topic=38569.msg156143#msg156143 date=1496439148]
anyone willing to relay the beta for the direct exit to morrison ck CG? ... topo and looking at creek, just veer east at bottom of chutes like normal but instead of traverse keep dropping and make sure to stay on west side of the creek? anything more?

thanks

Hey Water: GPS. ;)
Seriously I've been told that when we did 7 miles of road just to g...

6/5/17 4:49am

water

May 26-27, 2017, WA Pass Rambling, Black Loop Tour

anyone willing to relay the beta for the direct exit to morrison ck CG? I have always traversed back to the Crescent "glacier" area and had a nice little run from there down to cold springs.

topo and looking at creek, just veer east at bottom of chutes like normal but instead of traverse keep dropping and make sure to stay on west side of the creek? anything more?

thanks

6/5/17 4:46am

Chamois

Thanks K - haven't been up there but looks like a nice option to the hoards at the BDT

6/5/17 4:40am

jtack

May 26-27, 2017, WA Pass Rambling, Black Loop Tour

Thanks for the great pictures, you have inspired me to work on my night sky shots.

6/5/17 4:30am

mick_scott

May 26-28, 2017, Mt.Hood circumnavigation + Wy'east face

DAN!!!!

6/5/17 4:18am

Pete A

thanks for the bootpack :) we were a little disappointed when we saw that the fresh slide debris had likely wiped out the previous one... and then your crew swooped in and stomped in a new set of footsteps to use.

6/5/17 3:52am

swaterfall

Cool line!

author=tabski link=topic=38570.msg156099#msg156099 date=1496200650]
Heck yeah Dan, nice one. That upper berschrund feature is looking lots different than in past years.

Does anyone else feel like bergschrunds, cracks and moats are very large this spring despite a good snow year?

The 'schrud on Cowlitz Headwall on Rainier is yuuuuge and goes wall to wall already this year. I've skied tha...

6/5/17 3:39am

Well done. It's freaking gorgeous out there.

Thanks, for sure!

I've always thought a wintertime traverse (when coverage is good down into the creek/river valleys in the range) would be a pretty cool Wallowas trip. Pretty open travel for the most part.

Me too - if you could sign up for a couple of the yurts (maybe Norway and McCully) with...

6/5/17 2:49am

PhilH

May 26-28, 2017, Mt.Hood circumnavigation + Wy'east face

A group of 7 of us stayed in the McCully yurts last winter and had a very nice 4 days of skiing. There is plenty of terrain out there, and as our guide told us "the snow is always good snow in McCully." A more accurate statement would be, you can always find good snow somewhere in McCully.

6/4/17 10:38pm

PDX_Tim

Looks like fun! I was in the group of 6 ahead of you by maybe 45 min on the Wy'east on Sunday morning. Conditions were great on Wy'east and Superbowl, and not bad all the way to the Meadows base by the time we got there, around 9:30 am. I think you may have met Randy climbing somewhere en route the previous day, he seemed to know you were circumnavigating. The Timberline buffet is a great cap to any big Hood trip!

6/4/17 11:34am

Lowell_Skoog

author=kamtron link=topic=38570.msg156104#msg156104 date=1496250479]
Do you think this is an effect of greater snowpack creep, or that the bridges over such obstacles fall apart in the first warmup?

Probably a combination of both, I'd guess.

Also, I think thinning of the glaciers may be a factor. In the past, with thicker glaciers, the seasonal snow around transition zones (moats and schrunds) was better supported...

6/4/17 11:00am

Jim Oker

May 27-29, 2017, Chiwaukum Traverse

I've always thought a wintertime traverse (when coverage is good down into the creek/river valleys in the range) would be a pretty cool Wallowas trip. Pretty open travel for the most part.

6/3/17 3:52am

garrettww

Lots of goat tracks, but there may have been some wolverine mixed in there too.

6/2/17 11:32am

cumulus

May 20, 2017, Mt. Hood N Face, Left Hand ski

Love that first photo, full motion in stillness. Sounds like a great adventure!

Think we met you up on Adams last June, the bike crew.

6/2/17 10:20am

Wachusett

May 27-29, 2017, Glacier Peak, Cool Glacier HW -Vid

Well done. It's freaking gorgeous out there.

6/2/17 10:19am

jtack

Thanks for the multi media trip report! Great video and pictures. Those packs looked like carrying a one armed gorilla, the pie may have eased the pain but I doubt it! Refreshed great memories.

6/2/17 6:59am

Dave_R

May 27-29, 2017, Chiwaukum Traverse

Hey Garrett,

Thanks for the report. Nice work. I love that area!

Perchance, you didn't see any wolverine tracks, did you?

-Dave

6/2/17 6:32am

JasonGriffith

DAN IS BACK!!

So good, as always. Thanks for sharing the adventure!

6/2/17 5:31am

Charlie Hagedorn

I think she'd jump at the chance if they let her take one of those for a walk.

I'm pretty impressed with the images she got. The Ricoh camera she had might have been a 'Theta S' ?

6/2/17 3:07am

goleary

author=Charlie Hagedorn link=topic=38564.msg156112#msg156112 date=1496269863]
Susan borrowed a "360 camera" for the trip

For a second when I read that I envisioned her doing the tour with this attached to her back:

Cool pics!

6/2/17 2:38am

cmosetick

Thanks for the report here Dan. Glad you had a good ski. I'm always impressed by your lines.

6/2/17 1:10am

Charlie Hagedorn

Susan borrowed a "360 camera" for the trip, and has uploaded a few images to Google Maps. They're pretty cool, and provide a little more beta.

Ascending Sharkfin: https://goo.gl/jcU83w
Boston/Forbidden Col: https://goo.gl/z1k54Q
Moraine Lake: https://goo.gl/sNidLC
Lower Inspiration Basin: https://goo.gl/uOBiUy

6/2/17 12:52am

kthack

cascadekid - We parked at Morrison creek campground as well. My watch said ~4000 ft give or take. The road was undriveable from there for most (we did see a jeep on the road higher up, but he had driven through ~2ft deep off camber slush and over at least one 12 in diameter fallen tree). We walked probably a half mile uphill before putting on the skis.

Midwest2Northwest - great to meet you up there as well! Yes I believe we did follow your traverse out, thanks for that. Good to know t...

6/1/17 1:23pm

Midwest2Northwest

Kthack, nice to meet you guys up there! We were the group of 3 that you chatted with at the entrance to the chutes! Corn o'clock in the SW Chutes definitely was noon! We spoke with a ranger on saturday afternoon by our car and he shared some beta with us on a nice exit directly to the Morrison Creek TH from the chutes, the traversing track that we set (that I assume you guys followed) worked ok, but next time we do this in April/May we'll try to take it all the way to Morri...

6/1/17 12:42pm

goleary

A friend skied it this past weekend and said they parked at the Morrison creek campground

6/1/17 11:54am

Good2Go

May 26, 2017, Mt Hood, Newton Clark

It's good to see Helmstadter is back in action. Always inspiring rarely imitated.

6/1/17 9:08am

harg

i don't know. leuthold was actually plan A for me on that day, but i switched last minute because I thought it would need more time to soften than my window allowed. given what i saw on south and east facing stuff, i'd be surprised if it wasn't in really good shape tho.

6/1/17 4:45am

kamtron

May 29, 2017, Little T save yourself the trouble...

The danger zone

6/1/17 3:40am

kamtron

author=Lowell_Skoog link=topic=38570.msg156101#msg156101 date=1496208230]
I think this is to be expected when a deep snowpack is warmed rapidly before it has a chance to settle and consolidate.

Do you think this is an effect of greater snowpack creep, or that the bridges over such obstacles fall apart in the first warmup?

6/1/17 3:23am

andyski

author=tabski link=topic=38570.msg156099#msg156099 date=1496200650]
Heck yeah Dan, nice one. That upper berschrund feature is looking lots different than in past years.

Does anyone else feel like bergschrunds, cracks and moats are very large this spring despite a good snow year?

X2. I was hoping to ski the Diller Headwall on M Sister and there were big-ass schrunds under ever possible exit, way bigger than past years.

6/1/17 1:52am

cascadekid

What altitude was snow line? Or alternately, how many miles did you walk on road before reaching the summer TH?

5/31/17 11:35pm

Lowell_Skoog

author=tabski link=topic=38570.msg156099#msg156099 date=1496200650]
Does anyone else feel like bergschrunds, cracks and moats are very large this spring despite a good snow year?

Based on the photos I'm seeing, yeah.

I think this is to be expected when a deep snowpack is warmed rapidly before it has a chance to settle and consolidate.

5/31/17 11:15am

tabski

May 29, 2017, Little T save yourself the trouble...

Heck yeah Dan, nice one. That upper berschrund feature is looking lots different than in past years.

Does anyone else feel like bergschrunds, cracks and moats are very large this spring despite a good snow year?

5/31/17 9:17am

Robie

The blue route is GOld! including going up Golden gate. I'll have to try the purple route next time.

http://www.turns-all-year.com/skiing_snowboarding/trip_reports/index.php?topic=21052.0

5/31/17 8:16am

Charlie Hagedorn

The one time we climbed Boston from Sahale in ~September, getting onto the uppermost reaches of the Boston was easy. I just don't have any insight into how broken-up it might be to wrap around to that saddle from Sharkfin Col. It looks possible from maps/satellite images.

On the other hand, when we were on Sahale two weeks ago, the east side of the Sahale/Boston ridge had some amazing cornices hanging above the Davenport Glacier, which might complicate any escape to the Quien Sab...

5/31/17 8:04am

Lowell_Skoog

author=tabski link=topic=38564.msg156084#msg156084 date=1496180713]
Any opinions out there on reversing Sharkfin col to return to the Boston Basin side, from the Boston Glacier? From the Boston Glacier side I remember seeing a gully potentially easier to ascend just east of the Sharkfin col, leading to ridge and ramps downclimb-able back onto the Quien Sabe... Quite the barrier for sure.

I vaguely remember traversing Sharkfin col...

5/31/17 7:52am

hedonaut