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Pine Siskin. Thanks chamois!

Yea those rock bumps look dangerous🤪. There are lower elevation, and lower angled slopes that can be safely skied as they are meadow grass. But not nearly as fun as the higher slopes. Glad you got up ther and found open slopes!

Poor thing, the bird not you...you got the goods. 

That looks great!

I skied the SE aspect, typical hayrick butte tour! Skinned in on the snowmobile track, and took a right just before the open glad on the SE corner. 

I had closer to 15” at the Pass and had good turns on everything low angle. Steeper was exciting. Would be better tomorrow but I’ll be traveling…

HAHAHA! We did find 4 good turns... But here is the truth of it!

I am confused. I thought Stevens opened today(Wednesday) with limited terrain. Was the backside open?  Any delays? What has opened? 

Thanks 

Wow! You got the spot!

Sunday was incredible, the same hike except the snow was more than double in dumpage and the front north facing side was all filled in.   Lots of touring people up there but skiing fresh snow up to the knees was the order of the day.   Resort is still not open but that should change soon.

Tomorrow should be even better

I don't know any of the places you named, so I'm in the dark about location, but it sounds pretty nice. Mission Ridge is brown in all directions except for the one run with man-made snow. Hurtin' fer Certain!

Way to go you guys! Classic case of you don’t know if you don’t go. Great pic of wizard island and Amy. 

Beautiful spot! Thanks for the stoke. I need to visit Crater Lake now :)

It is good news that you did NOT bring the camper for a night in the campground.😀

Nice pix

No thanks to the cable car

Thank you Fuzz for the excellent and humorous trip report. I could feel it every step of the way. I agree about the fatigue with rugged individualism. It's just not the same when there is no escaping the hordes anywhere outdoors. And I'm one of them! (sigh)

Where was this? 

Thanks for replies, I suppose google could have been simpler haha!  Looks like an awesome trip!

Silas I love it! That trail description is awesome. Syguy, the pin in Silas's link is in fact where we parked. We met a guy there with a snowmobile who had groomed a ski trail on the side road, and there were several people skiing the trail plus a few families with young children playing in the snow. That overlook is a popular place!

Sick. I'm liking the backdated TRs

Canadians are just at another level than anyone with traverses. So inspiring.

And with everybody seemingly geeking out about ultralight gear, these folks are carrying standard winter pow touring setups. (I'm sure there was plenty of geeking out about other stuff, but just an observation.)

Strong!

What an amazing traverse! Beautiful photos too. The Canadians really do it bigger. Reading about epic traverses like this and the Full Coast Range Traverse is incredibly inspiring. It makes even the most ambitious traverses in the Cascades looks small, even though they definitely aren't! 

We were so happy to play in the meadow two weeks ago, and now there are 2 feet of soft snow on top of the crust that developed on this warm day. Crazy. So happy to have winter knocking on our door!

Well, we aren't skiing here!

Jamie and Jack in the meadow

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Thanks for the great trip Mike, quiet dream state skiing in knee deep powder in November. What a lucky treat. Sorry for no pictures, another example of faltering tec skills.

Thanks for the Wait-Gate update, Randy!  Sounds as tho the NPS has almost returned to the system used in the 70's and 80's, where one had to hike over to the Longmire Inn desk and ask for the gate combination (changed daily.)  It was very satisfying to be able watch the sunset or even enjoy moonlight skiing.  I never heard of anyone being hassled by rangers for being late. I do recall that the numbers on the lock's brass dials were so worn it was hard to read them in the headli...