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very nice, looks as fun as anything on the west side (or as sky says, "da WESTside" with gangster gestures)

I think they were planning to go for a jaunt on the reid hw but didn't like the trundling going on from the wind and mosh pit up on the crater rim. Sounds like you had some fun times though. How was that gully? Steep? Easy? Ice? Wish I'd known you were out there, I would have brought that screw. P.S. That descrip. of feces bouncing down the glacier is hilarious.

you should have just waited the 5 min and played kick the can back to the lodge. blue bags or pinch'n'bear it

a hobby, if you will.

dudes, the blue bags are free in the climber's register. I don't go up there to earn my associate's degree in scatology

all I know is pimp'n ain't easy

Whats that supposed to mean catshit...Oh...I forgot...your an alpine hardman...... post of the day

The gullies were silent and looked like a cakewalk if you could get across the schrund. It would be easy to dink around on the left and traverse in, but again, you're missing those low ice pitches, as it puts you in the trudge festival above them.

yeah we camped out there waiting for a group to clear the way for some sweet rime skiing.

it could have been some punks coming up the north side trundling icicles down on you hahaha

could you also provide wind speed/direction in 1/2 hourly increments, or at least for each station at which you calculated snowpack density? thank you. p.s. please provide temperatures in degrees Kelvin.

Climb: Tour de Hood-Sunshine, eventually Date of Climb: 3/13/2004 Trip Report: The enigmatic Hal Burton and I started from Timberline a little after midnight. We skied around the east side. The crossing of WR Canyon right now is quite easy up high. We skied across Newton-Clark Glacier and down Cooper Spur a bit. We took a nap there, since it was still before 0400 and it was really dark down on the Eliot Glacier. Didn't really want to launch down there w/ the headlamp. We did a long traverse over to the north face gully entrances, our first intended destination. While the gullies look to be give-aways right now, the start is not. Surprisingly, the bergschrund is impassable w/o some motivated acrobatics, perhaps on the right side. Here's the best spot to cross right now, taken from west of the bergschrund: You could cross high from Cooper Spur, but then you are missing one of the best parts of the route. I was surprised to see that what was easy to cross back in Nov. is now a yawning monster. So we were relegated to climbing Sunshine, perhaps a little happy to not climb the gullies with our skis, but disappointed we could not take the expressway to the summit directly. Here is the Eliot Headwall, and Hal Burton at an undisclosed location on the north side: The climbing was rather tedious, but conditions are quite good over there. We were all alone for the entire trip, until we exited at the queen's chair to Wally World. I've never seen that many people coming out of Leuthold's. Hey, and ZERO tracks on the upper headwall of Yocum, what's up? We proceeded up the summit ridge to our turnoff to the Mazama Chute: We sat there for quite awhile getting rained on by debris from the Leuthold juggarnaut, waiting for the bowling pins below to plod there way up so we didn't shell them with the rime skiing we were about to commence. Note human pack train on the hogsback. I did not realize RMI had a permit. Skiing conditions were truly abysmal. The top of the chute (what am I talking about, the whole thing) was quite icy and had a spicy 3-D texture to it. Much sideslipping ensued. Back at the car maybe a bit before 1300, with a few hours of dinking around on the north side.

Did you walk in the door and immediately start typing? It's only 3:00pm. PS I hope there is some mention of skiing when/if you finish your report. hmm or perhaps you stopped short of describing the descent to avoid the disgrace of being called out on a slogdown. Edit: SLOGDOWN aaaahahaha Just kidding. Did your friend seriously go unconscious from icefall? Ouch.

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Still workin' it. bumpity bump!

the u.s. military did some tests with this. I will see if I can get the report. I believe it worked for them if I remember (they put their hands and feet in warm water in cold conds)

seems like there needs to be an X add-on, since there are some not-so-steep runs that would be really bad to fall on, such as gentle glacier terrain that runs out to an icefall or crevasse-riddled areas.

I've heard of folks going so far as taping bricks to magazine "postcards" they receive. I have trouble believing the post office delivers them, but maybe they do.

It was ages ago but it is in ANAM. Don't remember. But obviously don't go in there after a bunch of new snow has fallen or when it's hot (or following a sharp warming trend after a bunch of precip). I have seen massive slush avalanche debris at the base of the gulley several times. Warm winds up high will also knock down very large chunks of rime (and often newly-exposed rock) on you all day.