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author=cascadekid link=topic=36647.msg149326#msg149326 date=1465940813]
Ah, good to see someone else getting after it in Iceland. So much potential, and such a nice place to be at that time of year. I'm so glad you guys had a good trip. The photos of skiing with fjords in the background are making me a bit nostalgic.
......and thanks again for the beta and inspiration. We're old farts (60!!) but were just blo...
The rangerette at the Nisqually booth told us the Paradise Valley Road was open, but 'twas not.
Checking out the Tatoosh from Paradise was helpful. The summit of Foss has stunning views.
BTW both Lisa and I are RETIRING 8) You two are role models.
Checking out the Tatoosh from Paradise was helpful. The summit of Foss has stunning views.
BTW both Lisa and I are RETIRING 8) You two are role models.
author=Big Steve link=topic=36632.msg149222#msg149222 date=1465312658]
High camp on the Hyas/Daniel Glacier divide:
I love it this time of year when you can ski in all directions. Nice camp. Nice trip. Thanks for the great report!
author=ski2fly link=topic=36651.msg149320#msg149320 date=1465888682] ...with kids sometimes the objective is not the objective.
Very well said. The objective is a great experience with a daughter, lessons learned and a memory that lasts a lifetime. Million dollar smiles!
Ah, good to see someone else getting after it in Iceland. So much potential, and such a nice place to be at that time of year. I'm so glad you guys had a good trip. The photos of skiing with fjords in the background are making me a bit nostalgic.
Great report! Good for her for recovering from what must have been a big scare. Super impressive that she got out there and had a great time. Love the pic of the bear in the sleeping bag. My daughter is 3 and I hope to model your ability to keep the objective from taking over the sense of fun. At the end of the day as long as they have a great time they will want to keep coming back.
Nice tracks! Looks like the glacier lived up to its name in the sun.
Yep, great Dad & Daughter trip, sounds like. Great job to the both of you.
That's awesome. Good job dad. It can be hard to remember with kids sometimes the objective is not the objective.
Sad and scary to think about the slide before the drop. RIP to the unfortunate soul at the waterfall.
Sad and scary to think about the slide before the drop. RIP to the unfortunate soul at the waterfall.
Wow. Here's to adventure. If John Muir and Henry David Thoreau were 21st century skiers, well...Thanks for such inspiration.
Met you up there just below the Whitman Crest; it surely was a nice day. I am adding two more pictures...
Great report. Good lessons.
I commend your impulse to be open and candid when something doesn't go right. It's hard, but I think it's valuable in ways that are impossible to quantify. I keep a trip journal, and it has been helpful for this sort of thing. Trip reports work well too.
I commend your impulse to be open and candid when something doesn't go right. It's hard, but I think it's valuable in ways that are impossible to quantify. I keep a trip journal, and it has been helpful for this sort of thing. Trip reports work well too.
Nice video! What did you do to stabilize the footage/what were you shooting with?
Thanks!
Thanks!
Great job, Mike- really enjoyed this trip report as well as yours from last year. Thanks so much for sharing this experience and these wonderful memories that you two will always cherish. Thanks also for helping to introduce the next generation into the magic of the outdoors!
Outstanding! I have only been to the Enchantments once, in the summer, a long time ago but I recall many of the spots you described. Thanks for the TR and to jog some good memories. S2F
edit- watched the vid - love the shot with Prusik Pk as the backdrop and the Dragontail shot.
edit- watched the vid - love the shot with Prusik Pk as the backdrop and the Dragontail shot.
wow, great report and trip you two. I really appreciate the candor. Some sobering and valuable lessons... and memories for a lifetime.
I love that last photo with the town visible across the water. Looks great!
What a trip, Jamie! I was simultaneously working on a trip report (fancy that) and just minutes after you posted, I tabbed twice which apparently posts the report. I'll delete mine. Here is what I had started to say about the trip:
The trip was so good, with great turns, sunsets, goat parties, and weather extremes including blazing hot, freezing wind, snow, rain and shine. Jamie and I didn't cross paths with anyone at all for two full days in the upper basin. Here are the h...
The trip was so good, with great turns, sunsets, goat parties, and weather extremes including blazing hot, freezing wind, snow, rain and shine. Jamie and I didn't cross paths with anyone at all for two full days in the upper basin. Here are the h...
loved it! Thanks for the creative report. Nice trip.
Jill and I planned to tour above Mazama Ridge but the Paradise Valley road was closed at Paradise. We saw your car at Reflection Lakes and your boot tracks. We have not been in the area for years, back when the snowpack was bigger and the trees were smaller. ;)
Perfect in every way! Thanks!
Well, that's an understated TR title :)
author=radka link=topic=36641.msg149277#msg149277 date=1465534671]
We stopped for lunch before dropping about 50 feet to the toe of the Squak. Another group of 5 skiers (Lowell Skoog we think) was also descending the glacier at this point and we expected them to come past us any time. But they never did and we saw later they had sidestepped up to the Crag View ridge and apparently skied back a different way. My guess is they went a way that has a lot less hiki...
Awesome! Glad you found the corn on a warm weekend. Love that crag view campsite.
I'll take half credit for the bike team... We rode up from my house in the Whitest Salmon.
Nice TR.
Nice TR.
holy shit. that crash. my balls just sucked into my stomach
Looks like you guys played it right. Nice skiing except for the faceplant, head-first falling bit. Adam proves that no-fall zones are no big deal again?
author=bs. link=topic=36634.msg149255#msg149255 date=1465450107]
i almost feel guilty to say that the line rode great at noon the next day...
Well that's earlier than 5:30 pm! Glad it went well for youse guys
And I feel jealous
When one is drinking Jack and passes it over, only to have his own bottle still in the other hand, nice. Turns weren't too bad either.......
author=PhilH link=topic=36634.msg149262#msg149262 date=1465487035]author=shred link=topic=36634.msg149261#msg149261 date=1465486507]
Looked like a Jolly good time! Except for the hanging out with naked Dudes part... :)
As Jerry Seinfeld once said "There's good naked and there's bad naked."
some are secure in their god given cloak, others less so...
Nice looking Trip, staying High, in the Back Country!
Nice report, Davey! Looks like it was the perfect summit temps, for volcano summit mullings.
RAD! Nice work Fellas! Hahaha, Ben applying his helmet for safety protocol of the sketch road section! :D
author=shred link=topic=36634.msg149261#msg149261 date=1465486507]
Looked like a Jolly good time! Except for the hanging out with naked Dudes part... :)
As Jerry Seinfeld once said "There's good naked and there's bad naked."
Looked like a Jolly good time! Except for the hanging out with naked Dudes part... :)
An awesome line with a solid group 8)
https://vimeo.com/170027481
https://vimeo.com/170027481
eh, no guilt, good to see you all--I wanted to stick around and watch you ski it! That's how it goes, experience builds, noon seemed like the perfect time given conditions as they were. And we all benefited from Cody's group road access beta--thanks Cody et al!
It was a fun ski/climb with some great people, good times!
it was cool running into you guys up there. i'm impressed you made it through that last washout. some of those rocks looked like real diff-hangers.
i almost feel guilty to say that the line rode great at noon the next day...
i almost feel guilty to say that the line rode great at noon the next day...
author=cumulus link=topic=36634.msg149244#msg149244 date=1465398431]
yeah, heavy fast moving sluffs on the steeps. Potentially manageable; Potentially dire consequences... so we backed off and skiied the ridge.
Cool, thanks for your reply. In your "side hilled" pic I can see "raised beds" of what looks like thick loose snow on the main N face above and below the large cliff band/dogleg...That would have definit...
author=Patarero link=topic=36623.msg149234#msg149234 date=1465338225]
Yeah, they have been crushing it this season.
Not actually NFNWR, more the NW ridge. Still dig the bike approach