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What ZAP said!  I had been around that country from time to time for work, and it looked fantastic, last summer I had a chance to drive to the wilderness boundary and spend a few short hours fishing the Pecos (of course you know what Truchas means). Nice work skiing that fantastic place,  no matter that it took ten years!

Ahhhhh yeahhhh. 

Fantastic trip report.  ;)

Check the webcams, gives a solid view all around Paradise.

http://www.nps.gov/mora/learn/photosmultimedia/webcams.htm#CP_JUMP_636381

What was the coverage like? I havent been up or seen pictures of the parking lot in a while, is the snow still continuous?

Mama told me not to come.

I might need to jump on board this train.

How was the road for low clearance/2WD vehicles?

Actually that's reversed.  Ingalls Pass trail up and Esmeralda down.  We split off the trail proper to Ingalls Pass ~500' below it and traversed N-NW towards Fortune.  Once you gain the E Ridge of Fortune just past Lake Camp Fire Girls, it's not quite continuously skinnable since there are a few places to scramble.  On descent, there's about 1500' of shwacking before you reach the Esmeralda trail proper.

Here:

Mack, you're right behind me.

From a little below Anvil on the Paradise G:

....I thought they had metric in europe ;-)??
loving the trip reports Silas!!

Good job ol' man.

Wild line, in a season of highs and lows.
Cool to see you guys ski your dream line.
In pure and human powered style. Under the
Radar, just like the mighty North Cascades.

Fantastic you guys and thanks for sharing the inspiring TR!

Thanks for the very valuable report!  A very impressive obstacle!

Wow!  You guys put the hard in hardcore!  We kept looking over there wondering how it was going.  Awesome to hear it went well.

Too bad about the ski.  Hopefully DPS will take care of you.  I doubt they would help me if my 99s broke due to the quantity of mounting holes.

Silas, thanks for the great Euro skiing story, have you been in this area before?  After a chat with Mike R. I think I might be able to post a picture from Facebook, but my plate has been too full to spend any time on it.  But now, I just look over Polly's sholder to see your pictures! You lucky dog, ridding the wave of a depressed Euro to boot!

yah, bananas!  (I'll keep my eyes peeled)


looked like sweet snow and some really sweet lines, nice vid!

nice pics Kenji! good to see what all the lights blinking mysteriously in the snowy meadow in the middle of the night came to be...

Did you see the paraglider late afternoon?  it went right over us then disappeared beyond Silver Star.


hope you don't mind if I add a few pics.  such a beautiful day, fantastic views!

Great line, duders.

Skiing with Tom the weekend prior to this I heard rumors that this might occur.  Nice to see it done! 

Thanks for all the inspiration and stoke in your 60 years. 

I envy you those 11 years, Griff. Enjoy 'em!

In any given storm system, Crystal can certainly get more snow than Chinook Pass, it's more of a cumulative averaging effect that makes the snowpack gradient obvious. In particular, storms with strong NW flow tend to hit Crystal hard, as the flow gets channeled upslope by the White River valley and there is no rain-shadowing effect from Rainier. Storm systems which track east along the WA/OR border and Columbia Gorge also tend to hit Crystal hard, with wrap-around moisture in a SE flow also...

Great vid man. I love seeing movies with soul. And what great freakin' skiing. Yes, this is now on my list of things to do!

I admit that I'm having a hard time seeing the line you skied, partially due to the fact that it looks impossibly steep in the photos.  Also, having thrutched up the NE Butt route a few summers ago, I can't imagine many skiable lines on that face of Goode, holy crap!  Can you draw the route on a photo?

Anyway, congrats on a very cool FD on a sweet mountain in a spectacular area! 8)