Joe_Poulton

There is a thin strip of land that follows the highway on the outside of the barrier...

Nice photos, looks like a good spot.

Bruce Tremper's book is awesome...thick and packed full of great info. I've read it 3 times through now and each time I remember more and more of the tidbits that help. Great read!

Too bad Ironman's not real.

Crazy that they fixed a rope each season on the Spur. I really like that crevasse crossing technique.

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I completed an enchainment of multiple snow crystals during my traverse of White River Canyon the other week. I stayed on top the whole way with the cornice to my left and the trees to my right....I summited multiple wind developed crests along the way.

When the Wadd traverse was done didnt they drop down to the glacier and hit the last three Serras from there? They didnt actually traverse them like you say above. Does that mean its still waiting for a true Summit Ridge Traverse? From Tiedmann to Serra 1 they stayed close to the ridgecrest...prior to Combatant they did not according to Fifty Fav Climbs N American Tick List...

A guy I know from Boulder Snowboarded about 3/4 of it a few years back and launched a 30ft air at some spot....I plan to ski with my Motocross DOT approved full face helmet...make a few turns at the start and if the snow is good then straight shoot it...because you only fall at the beginning of a turn anyway...so, if I don't turn, I don't fall.....actually, I don't know how I'll ski it until I get there.

RIP

I want to ski the Spur and I will soon. So the descent would not be slow...I've been to Tie in Rock twice on not so good days.

Billcoe, I wanted an excuse to drive my new car....your option is the easier one...however.

Well, I'm glad I decided not to solo Copper Spur...I may have reached out to shake the hand of a monkey and been pulled into the spider's cloud.

I never saw a gate...but then I wasn't looking for it. I think I might have to just go drive over there and see this week.

That truck has been there since the beginning of the season. If you skinned up the Cloud Cap Road, just past the gate, that's where they park the Crag Rats snow machine. That old truck usually stays in the parking lot during the entire snow season, since that is the truck that hauls the sno cat up there. Ah, I just never seen it there before...went up a few times last winter and it wasn't there. Thanks for the answer Frik.

Since this thread is about Hood instead of starting a new thought I'd ask this here. Anyone know what the Sheriff with a snowcat trailer was doing at the Tilly Jane Parking lot....TJ parking area was full on Thursday night so I went around to T-line...were the Crag Rats or PMR pulling drills or was there some kind of search happening? Plus I didn't want to carry my skis...low snowpack sucks.

It might have been...but if it was my partner and I had skis with me I would have done it....if it wasn't a sheet of ice anyway. Good to hear that the Navy got him out...hope he survives.

Too bad nobody had skis...do a Cornice Drop block test on a section away from the climber then ski down and over to the guy...or infact the spot that he fell at would have been sufficent enough to ski down to him....Hope he's still warm.

I guess you mean Vancouver, Wa...or Vancouver, BC? If the first, the fire opened up the Northside of Hood below Cooper Spur. White River Canyon is fun.

O rly? The waist leashes are only good for this style of climbing where a fall is not an option. It's a self belay and keeps you from dropping your tools...which you can't self arrest with anyway...if you fall you die...if you lose a tool your close to death. I only know a few people that can climb 80 degree ice without tools...but for general mountaineering...yep no leash. Most the time I forget to put my leash on my wrist anyway...I've never dropped my axe either.

Sweet!

"Sorry the file requested can not be found. Perhaps you have lost your way? Maybe you should of brought an MLU or a PLB." Is what came up when I lost my way in the file forest of this here forum. LOL

The great thing about a map and compass is that it is just like a GPS without the batteries...too bad not everyone who vetures into the outdoors realize how to read Range and Township lines...that there's a brass marker at (almost) every intersection atleast in the lower 48. All those "Green Trails" trail maps should have these lines on them...or you can just get the larger maps...If you have these skills then you always know where you are...if you can get a moderately clear view to triangulate.

My seatbelt is broken and I have an '89 Pathfinder with power windows and no Onstar on board....wish me luck should I drive off the road into a lake. and to other points...I don't like the idea of paying $5 or $500 for a beacon just so some one can find my dead body...just so family can then pay another $5000+ to bury me again in a rectangle plot. If I'm alive, I'll come home and do my best not to die. Hey remember that some old guy drove off the Marquam and he didn't have Onstar. Some Trooper saw hole in the barrier and got curious...they later found the old dude in the car in the river.....No one was demanding Onstar to be put in every car after that....to drive over the bridge.

Yep, I agree. It comes down to how much you're on the ice. More then what you use...