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author=mosetick link=topic=38287.msg155170#msg155170 date=1492037897]
Cumulus, your insults have absolutely no effect me. Feel free to bash me as much or as often as you want. My only concern is that post titles in the trip reports section here use a title format that is accurate and relevant to the majority of the members and viewers of trip reports. If you can't do that, rather than attempt to correct your post title, we'll simply delete your posts...
Cumulus, your insults have absolutely no effect me. Feel free to bash me as much or as often as you want. My only concern is that post titles in the trip reports section here use a title format that is accurate and relevant to the majority of the members and viewers of trip reports. If you can't do that, rather than attempt to correct your post title, we'll simply delete your posts.
author=goleary link=topic=38289.msg155133#msg155133 date=1491951778]
I remember your comment from the lot and couldn't agree more - "the key to great touring is low expectations".
One of my favorite new sayings is "just going for a walk in the woods" anything else is the cherry on top. I've had a lot of amazing days that start like that.
Some road infoz for the curious
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/news/2017/03/22/rockfall-risk-will-keep-sr-503-east-woodland-closed-through-spring
https://www.fs.usda.gov/alerts/giffordpinchot/alerts-notices
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/news/2017/03/22/rockfall-risk-will-keep-sr-503-east-woodland-closed-through-spring
https://www.fs.usda.gov/alerts/giffordpinchot/alerts-notices
If you are visiting sites along FR90, (from south) take SR502 or (from north) Cedar Creek Rd.
author=natefred link=topic=38287.msg155154#msg155154 date=1492011945]
Geesh, he was just trying to put your post title into the site format and apparently botched it. When you say "last Sunday" on a Monday, it means the previous Sunday. Get a grip.
I think you would feel differently about it if someone were putting words in your mouth. If he's going to botch it on all fronts (the date was there) perhaps he shouldn&...
Yep, sleds were used. Road is still covered all the way to 29 Pines (think it's about 12 miles to the summer trail head).
I've installed a GPS tracker in your car so I can follow it to the pow.
The afternoon corn was pretty yummy at hyak as well.
author=Randy link=topic=38289.msg155145#msg155145 date=1492000700]
FWIW: Images not displaying for me -- might be a google photos permissions thing.
tinkered with the permissions and linked to an album above. let me know if they show up. still can't figure out pics on this site...
Geesh, he was just trying to put your post title into the site format and apparently botched it. When you say "last Sunday" on a Monday, it means the previous Sunday. Get a grip.
author=Good2Go link=topic=38281.msg155137#msg155137 date=1491958726]
We went in via the Teanaway Rd. Climbed the Cascadian Couloir, and skied the down the false summit and SE shoulder as that line was holding smooth pow and buff. Was pretty good skiing top to bottom. Should be plenty of snow up there for late season couloir bagging.
Awesome! That route is on my list for this season. Did you guys use a sled to access? I hear th...
we still have a few open seats on the TGR bandwagon
FWIW: Images not displaying for me -- might be a google photos permissions thing.
author=goleary link=topic=38281.msg155130#msg155130 date=1491945197]
Isn't it!
Was that your snowmobile track on on 8mile road? What did you guys get up to on Stuart?
We went in via the Teanaway Rd. Climbed the Cascadian Couloir, and skied the down the false summit and SE shoulder as that line was holding smooth pow and buff. Was pretty good skiing top to bottom. Should be plenty of snow up there...
Nice running into you on the luge track out (I was the skier who stopped to chat about the couloir we skied).
I remember your comment from the lot and couldn't agree more - "the key to great touring is low expectations".
The north slope of chair and some NE facing couloir above snow lake held delightful powder at 8:30am this morning.
I remember your comment from the lot and couldn't agree more - "the key to great touring is low expectations".
The north slope of chair and some NE facing couloir above snow lake held delightful powder at 8:30am this morning.
author=Good2Go link=topic=38281.msg155126#msg155126 date=1491935218]
Nice work! Great view of Colchuck from that spot. We were on Stuart that day. Surprisingly cold up high!
Isn't it!
Was that your snowmobile track on on 8mile road? What did you guys get up to on Stuart?
Dang Zap - you guys are hard to keep track of - but keep us all posted and maybe my limited time out will intersect some time.
Nice work! Great view of Colchuck from that spot. We were on Stuart that day. Surprisingly cold up high!
Probably 30-40 folks were on the mountain Sunday. A good split between sliders and climbers.
author=T_Scheib link=topic=38243.msg155115#msg155115 date=1491881990]
Headed back to VT for 10 days Wednesday. Spent 4 years at Burke and Jay. Will be back at both plus some action in the Whites.
Nice, they are really having a snowy Spring. Report back!
cchapin - You know I actually thought the same thing when I first looked at that picture.
I found another photo of Ed that shows the crampon a bit better (attached). I think it's the white/gray rubber of the boot that makes it look the way it does. I However stick to my fully auto crampons for my ski boots.
Jake the Brit - thank you sir! Winter will definitely sticking around for some time up there. Sadly the road and a lot of the terrain lower down is alre...
I found another photo of Ed that shows the crampon a bit better (attached). I think it's the white/gray rubber of the boot that makes it look the way it does. I However stick to my fully auto crampons for my ski boots.
Jake the Brit - thank you sir! Winter will definitely sticking around for some time up there. Sadly the road and a lot of the terrain lower down is alre...
DARN IT! I mean good on you guys betting the right hand. I agonized over the decision to go up there yesterday but folded the Helen's hand and played Hood. I thought the decision was the right one because the Palmer was a mixed bag of scoured, wind packed, and struguri. Then we reached Zig Zag glacier and found a very stable ankle deep layer of light to slightly consolidated well bonded snow in the wide shallow veins of the glaciers face that skied really nicely.&nbs...
Headed back to VT for 10 days Wednesday. Spent 4 years at Burke and Jay. Will be back at both plus some action in the Whites.
Coming up that way tomorrow. Where shud I look for you ?
Your photo shows a whole load of snow action about to happen, having happened and might-just-happen. Great pic & report.
Great report Gents, the pictures tell 1000's of words. It looks like winter is still going strong above the lake.
Strong work!
Someone might want to check on their crampon fit - the left foot attachment looks quite precarious!
Someone might want to check on their crampon fit - the left foot attachment looks quite precarious!
Checked out your skintrack from chair 2, sweet!
These reports always bring out the nostalgic expats - like me. Welcome to the PNW when you make the migration we all made for near year-round good skiing. But yeah - the place and people back in NNE are top notch and I never stop feeling the pull. I was lucky enough to grow up spending large chunks of time in Western ME, and later to live in VT for 8 years and spend one year at the Eastern Bloc condos at the base village at Bolton Valley when they changed ownership and the reso...
David Goodman's series of books are a great resource for NY, ME, VT, NH, MA BC skiing. Good beta on what's to explore. At least 20 years ago! You'll see a pattern, most of the summer hiking trails can (and should!) be skied. The gems are the 1930's CCC trails scattered around NE, a large number becoming ski areas (Stowe has a bunch), while others lost to memory (but I'm sure not turns).
Western ME has some great BC skiing...
Western ME has some great BC skiing...
Thanks for this thread! With an impending move to western Maine this summer (to ~ 40 miles south of Sugarloaf, <2 hours to the Whites), it's encouraging to see some enthusiasm about east coast BC. Does anyone know terrain or have suggestions for eastern NH/western Maine?
Very cool. I remember my first experience skiing bottomless powder at Jay Peak. Butternut Mtn for life :)
author=wcurchin link=topic=38243.msg155047#msg155047 date=1491584511]
VT: Tear drop trial on backside of mansfield, once a secret, now far from it. Great skiing.
Not sure if I agree whether Teardrop was ever a secret (it's a cut ski trail!) but there are still some others around that side of Mansfield. I will say no more.
Epic! May need to get another ice axe and some boot cramps and give this a go!!
Lots of feels in this thread! I grew up in VT and lived there through college. Didn't get into touring until moving west, but have dabbled on trips and talked to friends back east.
VT: Tear drop trial on backside of mansfield, once a secret, now far from it. Great skiing. Lots of touring off the top of mt. mansfield and you can skin up under the gondola before opening as a great means of accessing the terrain above treeline that drops into the notch (read hellbrook). RASTA trail...
VT: Tear drop trial on backside of mansfield, once a secret, now far from it. Great skiing. Lots of touring off the top of mt. mansfield and you can skin up under the gondola before opening as a great means of accessing the terrain above treeline that drops into the notch (read hellbrook). RASTA trail...
author=freeski link=topic=38158.msg154943#msg154943 date=1491160332]
For those that know the skiing history of ruby mt i ask-
Would it have been a common occurance to have had 3 seperate groups stacked up in the avalanche terrain there before tay trip reports sent people out hunting for skin tracks in areas previously off the radar?
I think the Tay effect has respectfully been replaced by the Volken effect....
^^^
With the large drink. ;)
Thanks for sharing, and for the chuckle. I know I've had my share of folly.
Cool trip.
With the large drink. ;)
Thanks for sharing, and for the chuckle. I know I've had my share of folly.
Cool trip.
:). Sounds like you got the full Enchantments meal deal.
Nice Trevor! Glad to hear a veggie belay helped save the day
author=andyrew link=topic=38243.msg155004#msg155004 date=1491418059]
We are indeed far from the action, it seems. WNY has got snow (200+ inches of lake effect/year) on Tug Hill and the Chautauqua ridge, but there isn't much terrain there. That I've found. I will have to check out Jay sometime. Closest terrain is Canada is Mont Tremblant, basically equidistant to Jay, but doesn't seem nearly as appealing.
West si...
I had just got into backcountry skiing when I moved away from VT, but there were some cool spots around Mt Mansfield and Camel's Hump that I visited mid-winter. For a NY'er, I imagine the Dacks would be the most appealing. You've got the various slide paths to ski in the Keene valley area. There are some family oriented ski hills like Big Tupper as well as Whiteface (Iceface---although apparently there are some rad sidecountry slide paths there too). As for VT, I think Jay, Stowe,...
y'all took care of that day nicely! Sweet link up, and visuals too.
We are indeed far from the action, it seems. WNY has got snow (200+ inches of lake effect/year) on Tug Hill and the Chautauqua ridge, but there isn't much terrain there. That I've found. I will have to check out Jay sometime. Closest terrain is Canada is Mont Tremblant, basically equidistant to Jay, but doesn't seem nearly as appealing.