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author=Kiddch link=topic=38347.msg155388#msg155388 date=1492964604]
Nice. I'm an East Coast guy and my trips out Seattle way have included Crystal and the surrounding backcountry, as well as Baker and Table Mtn/Ptarmigan ridge. Been meaning to add Alpy and the Snoqualmie backcountry to the list. Chair Peak looks like a great objective!
It is but (uh oh here comes the qualifier---) I should add that any objective we...
Nice. I'm an East Coast guy and my trips out Seattle way have included Crystal and the surrounding backcountry, as well as Baker and Table Mtn/Ptarmigan ridge. Been meaning to add Alpy and the Snoqualmie backcountry to the list. Chair Peak looks like a great objective!
Good on you pointing the continuing dangers this winter is still holding on to. We have to be conservative.
author=cumulus link=topic=38347.msg155372#msg155372 date=1492896745]
Putting a message in a bottle just for you Kam.
Please clue me in too.
Thanks for the report, so many appealing lines off Chair and its satellite peak(s)! Though I've skied several, still need to hit several more...and looks like you've added one to the list
author=BCSchonwald link=topic=38347.msg155380#msg155380 date=1492902662]
Did you skin around the North slope to the Melakwa Point saddle?
We skinned up Melakwa drainage to Melakwa Pass.
Did you skin around the North slope to the Melakwa Point saddle?
so that's where everybody was... a magnetic pull commensurate to its mass
No entomologists out there?
I appreciate the comments, thanks!
Putting a message in a bottle just for you Kam.
April's been sweet this year, so good out there! Friday:
I appreciate the comments, thanks!
Putting a message in a bottle just for you Kam.
April's been sweet this year, so good out there! Friday:
telemack, that's correct, we skied the North Brother. Took the central line visible in the first picture. We discussed taking the line climbers right but decided not to due to its aspect and strength of the sun. Pretty sure we made the right call.
Must have been kind of intense to be there in a white out. The terrain is very tight and steep, would be tough to know what's above and below.
David made a video: https://www.instagram.com/p/BTJqE6GA-_v/?taken-by=peakoft...
Must have been kind of intense to be there in a white out. The terrain is very tight and steep, would be tough to know what's above and below.
David made a video: https://www.instagram.com/p/BTJqE6GA-_v/?taken-by=peakoft...
fantastic. winged migration.
Nice work!
Hey, great TR. So nice to see a properly named and formatted entry! You wouldn't believe the sad excuse for a subject name some people choose to use...... ;) 8)
Hey, great TR. So nice to see a properly named and formatted entry! You wouldn't believe the sad excuse for a subject name some people choose to use...... ;) 8)
Very Nice TR! Thank You For Sharing
Care to mark the entrance on a map for us punters?
Nice pickings on the weather - dang this work thing!
Thanks for the TR and pix.
From your writeup and the first photo, it looks like you climbed the North Brother?
We got to the top of the East Basin in a whiteout in 2012; amazing location regardless of the views, and it sure is nice to look at that cool mountain after being up there :)
From your writeup and the first photo, it looks like you climbed the North Brother?
We got to the top of the East Basin in a whiteout in 2012; amazing location regardless of the views, and it sure is nice to look at that cool mountain after being up there :)
Wow, that looks like some pretty rad terrain. Great pics, thanks for sharing!
author=Stefan link=topic=38287.msg155311#msg155311 date=1492617721]
I never thought of eating a sandwhich from the back of my hand.
New perspectives I see. Maybe I will try.
That's hilarious! I want to see you try.
Thanks for keeping things on topic.
author=Lowell_Skoog link=topic=38287.msg155279#msg155279 date=1492491671]
The original post was a teaser. Teasers are a perfectly valid sort of trip report.
I've never considered the format for a trip report title anything more than a suggestion.
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Indeed, and I've both posted and found others' posting of "general area conditions reports" (i.e. w/o specific route info) to often...
author=mosetick link=topic=38287.msg155290#msg155290 date=1492534702]
Yes, I have started a behind the scenes effort to modernize the TAY site. No ETA at this point in time. Smartphone use, GPS style pins on a map, selecting a date from a drop down, etc, etc, are all items that I'm keen to include in the updated site.
I do not intend for the new site will not be flashy or eye catching, just functional on mobile and desktop with some modern day...
I never thought of eating a sandwhich from the back of my hand.
New perspectives I see. Maybe I will try.
New perspectives I see. Maybe I will try.
Thanks for the TR, I can see it from town every morning! Need to go!
Thanks for the beta, I'll be heading up there very soon.
glenn_b, Norseman, cumulus thanks for the notes!
We've all seen the mountain from afar for years, very fun to finally get up close :). Gaining the upper basin definitely challenged my mental model (built from 40 miles away) of the terrain.
cumulus, there was a very light wind on the upper mountain. I think that helped a lot with the snow quality. Down low the air was stagnant, contributing to the poor snow quality, even by 9 or 10 am.
We've all seen the mountain from afar for years, very fun to finally get up close :). Gaining the upper basin definitely challenged my mental model (built from 40 miles away) of the terrain.
cumulus, there was a very light wind on the upper mountain. I think that helped a lot with the snow quality. Down low the air was stagnant, contributing to the poor snow quality, even by 9 or 10 am.
author=Lowell_Skoog]
TAY is not a guidebook or a textbook. It's a culture.
Thank you Lowell, it is in fact the culture that I care about most.
author=thatcherk1]
This all reminds me, is there any work being done to migrate TAY to a more modern format, something easier for smartphone use? With a modernized Site, TRs could have a form where you select a date from a drop down and ev...
crazed by the wind people retreated to the lake and skied in circles until the vortex lost its grip and everyone went home happy with their feet on the ground
Nicely done!
I, like glenn_b, have history with this one--first mt. I ever climbed out here. Saw it from the ferry and thought I'm going up there and so I did. 1989. Never skied it tho.
I like your compact description -
funny
Must have been windy at the top that day?
I, like glenn_b, have history with this one--first mt. I ever climbed out here. Saw it from the ferry and thought I'm going up there and so I did. 1989. Never skied it tho.
I like your compact description -
author=powersa link=topic=38327.msg155264#msg155264 date=1492479341]
Give the approach special consideration.
funny
Must have been windy at the top that day?
Cool! Were they wearing skis?
Yup! They started sliding down/launched from one of the steeper rollovers and got a couple hundred feet of air, gliding down to solid landings on their skis on the lower flats.
though lots of post holes and sled track.
Ya, there was a big group... say 25-30 people... practicing rope team travel and ice axe arrests Saturday when I was there...
This all reminds me, is there any work being done to migrate TAY to a more modern format, something easier for smartphone use? With a modernized Site, TRs could have a form where you select a date from a drop down and even put a pin drop on a map that will categorize TRs easily by date and General or specific location. Then the poster could still make creative titles. Just one of many benefits of modernizing.
On the other hand if it ain't broke, don't fix it. TAY stays pret...
On the other hand if it ain't broke, don't fix it. TAY stays pret...
Thanks for the snow line info. Been thinking of giving this one a shot soon.
author=mosetick link=topic=38287.msg155257#msg155257 date=1492467576]
My only point was that since you did not include a 'specific' location in your title, nor in the post itself, it's overall relevance to the TAY community was marginalized.
The original post was a teaser. Teasers are a perfectly valid sort of trip report.
I've never considered the format for a trip report title anything more than a...
the only good thing about this day was finding out that an oven bag between my socks and my boots keeps my feet blister free. no sock/foot rub cuz the bag is so slippery. joy.
I hope everyone feels better.
The armChair terminology was hilarious
TAY could use a bit of light humor,
though not the reason I'm lurking.
8^]
The armChair terminology was hilarious
TAY could use a bit of light humor,
though not the reason I'm lurking.
8^]
Nice! Climbed this back in 1973 with the Olympic College climbing class with Kent Heathershaw, Harold Pinsch and a bunch of the Ur-Olympic Mountain Rescue crew. It was a 2-day trip for us. I remember, dimly, the long glissade off the summit.
Went up Sunday for Easter Brunch with Champagne. Easy skin up though lots of post holes and sled track. Sweet ride down. Hazy sun and wind but closest to blue bird in a couple weeks.
I fourth that. It was bad, bad, bad. The upside was we got a ride from the bridge within 5 minutes of climbing over the snowbank. Nice folks! We'll pay it forward.
Thank you and likewise, I appreciate the apology.
author=mosetick link=topic=38287.msg155257#msg155257 date=1492467576]
My only point was that since you did not include a 'specific' location in your title, nor in the post itself, it's overall relevance to the TAY community was marginalized.
On this point I beg to differ... the location was both in my title and rendered visually in my post. It was no...
author=cumulus]
Can we agree that we will try to resolve discrepancies more directly? It would be great if you could alert with a PM or a comment rather than going straight to editing a post. I think this whole thing could have easily been avoided that way.
Yeah man, I accept your apology. I'm sorry for changing the title of your post without alerting you. My only point was that since you did not include a 'specific...
author=thunderchief]
The dudes with the paraglider wings looked like they were having a blast.
Cool! Were they wearing skis?
Thirded. Also to note, the wind drift/20' deep "gully" a bit above panorama point is crazy icy and deep right now. Saw one boarder miss it and fall in and warned another off. He seemed mostly ok with a bit bloodied face and nose, and made it down to the lot but a scary moment.
A little of both! I didn't look at the forecast too closely, just a quick glance at nwac and noaa. NWAC was calling for 15-20 mph winds and NOAA was calling for lighter winds not really enough to make me think twice. Overnight winds were pretty calm. It was interesting cause the ridge tops (and surrounding peaks) were getting noticeably blasted with wind and snow getting actively deposited while down at snow lake it was calm.
Nice Jacob.
I admittedly didn't look at the forecast real hard. But theme seems to be, 'surprised by more wind then expected'.
Was the wind forecasted, and we where just optimistically naive, or was it much more then forecast?
Also thought it would be sunnier. We had a clear morning, but fairly low light, and increasing grey bird after noon.
I admittedly didn't look at the forecast real hard. But theme seems to be, 'surprised by more wind then expected'.
Was the wind forecasted, and we where just optimistically naive, or was it much more then forecast?
Also thought it would be sunnier. We had a clear morning, but fairly low light, and increasing grey bird after noon.
We were up there Saturday and it was indeed awesome in the north bowl. Went up Lanham but couldn't resist going down the other way. 20 mins walk along highway 2 to get back to the car was well worth it.
Nice.
We had a view from camp( nason ridge)Looked good up there! Bumped into one of Saturdays farmers at the parking area. Said it was great.
I agree not as warm, and way too windy.
We had a view from camp( nason ridge)Looked good up there! Bumped into one of Saturdays farmers at the parking area. Said it was great.
I agree not as warm, and way too windy.
Nice job getting after it. Making me jealous as I had plans to ski off the summit this weekend which fell through. Sounds like conditions were quite good considering the "spring" we've been having.
I would like to corroborate this. Skinned up to Muir and skied down to Nisqually bridge by way of the chutes. Breakable crust on the snowfield, breakable chunderfest in the chutes and sticky mess below in the flats (around 2 pm). Sun never really came out like we'd hoped to soften things up.
Good exercise, miserable skiing.
Good exercise, miserable skiing.