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Guinea piggin. Eesh.

Grateful to get out there with an awesome crew.  Here are a couple photos of conditions on the mountain:

The four others in my party topped Sherman, while I basked like a lizard and took pictures on the rim.

Cool, looks like a fun ski down the crater.
Did you summit Sherman.

Nice ski tracks!

I'm sure you had warmer/softer conditions than I did last week, since I started earlier and the day was somewhat cloudy. It's fun to try to figure out the most efficient food/water allocation. I ate a little bit at each of my transition points, which helped I'm sure. I also started skinning right after topping the evergreen band in Eldorado Creek basin. For me, that was probably faster than if I'd been walking.

I tip my hat to the really...

Flute Ridge after it melted out between Tuesday and Friday

Nice!  I was also thinking it was weird that there haven't been many conditions reports but I think people have just been too busy getting after it.  I was up there the weekend before and the weekend after you were there.  Snowline is still around 8k as of Sunday, pretty much continuous skiing from Horse Camp on this route.  But I'd recommend traversing across the rocks from horse camp, and following the lookers right drainage up avy gulch instead of the normal climbers left route to H...

anyone know if the middle fork is open again? would like to run the dutch soon

edit: nevermind open noon Friday through noon Monday til october

I too had my sights set on the overcoat glacier and a hidden line in those parts. First attempt last year was via burntboot/middlefork which was cut short by survival mode ice. Second was early this May cut short by animal noise in the middle of the night near the basin of lemah while by myself. Third was the following week via spectacle and across the bench to iceberg and up the col. There was still just enough snow to make the spectacle lake to glacier lake part tolerable but after that it was...

Wonderful Dan!  Great photos.  Excellent trip.

syoumans... Indeed!

I hate thunder.

Yup most climbers and skiiers were traversing almost over to the Deming (as of 5/30. There were tracks that looked only a few days old that somehow got over those bridges, but I think they are gone now). I've only been up twice from the Easton / Squak, and each time just booted right up the climber's right side of the headwall... so was surprised that it didn't go. Not too bad route finding from below, but in a whiteout and above, I could imagine it was a bit daunting!

Kenji.... It was a lot of skiing!  And pretty  much type 1 fun skiing the whole time.

Snoholic... It was fun to see your tracks.  I saw those and wondered if I might know the people.  It would have been fun to meet you.  The T storm was fun.  We made it to camp just as the rain came and it didn't last too long. Made for some nice lighting.

Nice trip!  I was wondering who was camped at Peggys.  We did a quick outing to East Peak on Friday.  The afternoon T-storm had us sprinting the last few miles of trail back to the car on our return. It must have been a little exciting up there.

Put me on your call list next time mike!  Cuz I think you're gonna make it then  ;D

Lowell, yer pretty freakin fit!

Nice effort.

I think I'm going to copy you :-)

Here's one more, looking up at the crux of the climb. This is taken from the ridge above the Wy'east face. You weave through snow/ice between the cliffs to gain the summit.

Note to TAYers: Instagram does a great job of resizing photos in a way that this site will accept!

Thanks for leading a Mtnr trip! Sounds like a typical July trip, but in June (was 5/31, close enough)

Love the pictures and the story. I share a somewhat similar obsession with Chimney's East face rock route. Hope we both tick it off our third times! The pictures from others of Overcoat in good condition up high looks amazing - can't wait until it snows some more :)

Lowell that is truly fast travel! That bolder hopping stretch crushes me just thinking about it.  I need a dose of that gung ho attitude, nice going.

Impressive!

Unfortunately i didn't take many pictures going down, but here is one that shows the kautz icefall. our descent was far left of the 100 foot icefall

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Here's a closer up of that finger when we ski'd it a couple years ago.  I have a couple even closer photos but not on this computer.

Beautiful.  Looks like you had great conditions.