they could tie it off to the engine up on crater rock BTW if you are forced up the southside routes these days I recommend adding on the gulley that splits crater rock as a nice enclosed short 50°ish ice poke (very short). Drops you high on crater rock looking down on the normal route, then you can traverse around and climb down to the hogsback or summit crater rock. Make sure it's cold. It may be gone already now that I think of it. There's all this old timber and stuff down in one of the gulleys up there from back in the '30's.
the current record for the brand new cat at T-Line (I'm not talking about the old blue Thiecol but the new Bombardier thing) is the base of Crater Rock during a rescue in May last year. Gets pretty sketchy when it is tilted back and you have to climb out of the thing to get out. Definitely couldn't go higher. And that's with the best-of-the-best cat drivers. Some of those guys are real pros.
sure it does. didn't you just read above that you can ski, and not use your ass?
sorry boonecounty I could not get any time off work this week. btw that ski down was boilerplate awful on Sunday
you feel like you teeth are going to rattle out when you're in there. It's usually packed too. I'll admit, I've hitched a ride on the thing when there has been room.
if you saw that guy wipe out in the gates then you probably saw me ski down the old chute. It was way too icy to be skiing that stuff still. that kid is lucky to be alive. I skied over underneath Devil's Kitchen HW to look for his ski in the debris. No luck. Good to hear he found it. He was pretty shaken up about it, and rightly so.
I just wanted to show the whippersnapper that I can come out of retirement and tear it up with the pagetops at anytime, anywhere. I am the extremomtndude of pagetops.
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