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Must be closing in on 18 TAY's, eh? Glad your snow field was much bigger than mine. I look forward to the real thing!!!

Sounds like once-in-a-lifetime conditions on a unique mountain. Would love to see high-res pictures when you get the chance.

Wow, good one!  Makes skiing powder in April before it gets sloppy look like child's play, I bet.

Amazing photos!

Man that looks FUN!

Great to meet you Todd and the rest of your crew up there.  Thanks for the photos.  Good start to the season!

How was stability ? Looked like you all ascended in a tight group on a loaded slope next to fresh avalanche debris. What did your pit below the  cornice reveal ? Skiing looked super fun !  X

Amazing stuff. Myself and my 2 brother just moved to Seattle and want to get out and do some splitboarding next weekend. would love to connect with some locals to show us the way. 

Maybe 30 people showed up with skis and boards on Saturday. No gong show, just a bunch of people enjoying the start of the season. We found 6" of very nice powder on top of the rain crust. The day started bluebird and high clouds built throughout. Every run, it seemed we were treated to a sun break. Wind picked up by afternoon, gusting strong at ridgetop, and refreshing the tracks. I bet it's completely different today!

Yee-Haw, bruthahs! Way to sniff it out and take it home!!!

How's the road hangin in there for 4x4 truck?

what a rad video of a great day!

pretty cool to ride the whole IG in pow with no road sledding required.  i'm glad i was able to get out of work and represent as the token snowboarder.

here's a few photos and a 30 second video...

https://vimeo.com/188435280

Wow, just wow!

I was up on Bach this last June and saw a similar black fox.  It came trotting down the trail toward us, carrying some kind of dead Squirrel in it's mouth.  The fox obviously saw us but kept moving, down the trail toward us, until it was about 10 feet away. Then it walked off the trail to go around us, just out of reach, without missing a beat. 10 feet below us it loped back on to the  trail like running into people with skis on their back was just another ho hum day in the life.  My guess...

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So we got high!!!

Think I got a contact high!
What's the road situation? Looks like you walked from the gate at White River

very envious!    that looks fantastic.... thanks for posting!

any issues with thinly bridged (or open) crevasses midway up the glacier?

Beauty!

Website says

May close nightly due to weather. Check Twitter for gate status and other road condition updates

Was good to go during the brief weather break on Wednesday.  Trace at the base of the Hogsback, knee deep at the top and much deeper on the glacier.  All the little cracks in the typical zones were no where to be seen.  Deepest mid-october snowpack on the glaciers I've seen in quite a few years.  About 10 peeps, mostly splitboarders out and about.  Prepare for a gong show this coming Saturday.

Gracias for the TR.
Does anyone know if the night closure is ongoing for the winter, or was it from the storms?

Wet and wild!

Nice! That looked fun.

tomorrows looking hopeful...

Mike, you went from your home to my old home in Vermont in 5 hours!  Except it's October here and you visited there in December.  You are also a time traveler.

Damn!  That looks like some mighty tasty skiing!  way to get the goods.