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  1. Trip: SWBC - Early Season Alpine Steeps in the Coast Mountains Date: 1/19/2011 Trip Report: The first week of December, I had the great pleasure to ski alpine steeps in the Spearhead Range and finish the day with a long run down Husume all the way to Whistler. There hasn't really been a letdown since. The quality of this season for the type of skiing I love best continues to blow my mind. This song expresses how I feel about it all. [video:youtube]lPM3V-qfUCo December 4 - Skied the NW Face of Pattison with Alex and Ziff. What time is it!? On the way to Pattison That's some nice early-season alpine powpow. More from NW Face of Pattison December 17-19: An epic birthday trip with the cc.com artist known as lunger. He's old as dirt but he still kills it. We hit the West Face of Iago Even though we had to pull some spicy ski-boot shenanigans to get through the high route below Overlord. Old man on the rocks. This thing was a mellow little str8line two weeks later. The line was epic apres-sunset powder. More on the West Face of Iago. Then lunger and I hit a party in Pemby with one of the best DJs in the world and some 16yo chicks tried to panty-raid us. But we stayed the course and schralped the Aussie Couloir on Joffre the next day. That's that thang. And this too is good. There are some happy light-show photos on my Aussie Couloir TR. December 30 - We bailed on a more epic trip during an arctic outflow while Ryan unfortunately got frostbite on his toes. Sorry about that, buddy. Alex and I were superstoked to bag the North Face of Cheakamus as a consolation prize, though. Powgasm There is much more in my North Face of Cheakamus Mountain TR. January 3 - Naomi is a badass ski-racer rock-climber experimental-nuclear-astrophysicist lady from Austria. She got her first touring setup and to christen it, we dropped Joffre Couloir. Here's her setup and our anchor to rap the rock step at the top. She was fresh off the plane from a three-week trip to visit family in Japan and she had a superfancy new camera. She took this neato action shot. More about our Joffre Couloir shenanigans. Now Naomi has her legs so Wednesday we hit the trifecta on Tremor and Pattison Naomi on North Face of Tremor Skiing Hourglass Couloir on the west side of Tremor Tremor, I'm still quaking. I just skied in my pants! More on Tremor, North Face and Hourglass Couloir plus Pattison Many thanks to all my BC-schralping partners in crime and MUCHAS GRACIAS, LA NINA! hasta luego
  2. ^^ This is a good recommendation. Ski the whole way, probably start and finish on snow, some glacier travel required. Don't skip the summit. If your group is fit enough and you're lucky wit da wedder you can ski some of the oh-so-lovely terrain above Sphinx Bay before the luge down the trail below Garibaldi Lake.
  3. Climbed there mid-late December last year during a serious cold snap, below freezing temps, south-facing sun-drenched cracks (there are plenty of them) were still tolerable.
  4. I clicked on this thread to see the blue bounce.
  5. That's great. I just climbed on the Malamute for my first time last week. Incredible!
  6. Would anyone like to climb at Squamish on Saturday? I have rope, rack, like to lead and can get myself to Squamish. Please hollah. Same username @gmail.
  7. Thanks to all three of you! That climb was a blast and pitches 3-5 were crazy fun.
  8. ^^^That's some sick beta from my oubliette in the lab. Go capitalize on that and quit sending me bullshit emails, Dan!
  9. If the damned glaciers and icecaps would melt already, perhaps the resulting dilution would counteract this imminent threat. Slogan of the Lone Star Oyster Bar: Shuck me, suck me, eat me raw! Il raisonne comme une huitre.
  10. I recall no such thing. But I do plenty of 180s over similar periods. I love the huts up here, but I'll readily mock them compared to the shelters in the Alps!
  11. Glad you had a good weekend. That is a nice shelter, for Washington.
  12. Yes, the last one was Generic Crack. I loved climbing through the pods; it was like doing a layback on a hand jam. What a fun pitch!
  13. I was intrigued by that chapter of Fifty Favorite Climbs. Nice to read another take on it.
  14. Right on, Dan. When are you going to get your passport?
  15. Trip: Utah - Desert Daze - Whatever's in the Sun Date: 12/27/2009 Trip Report: After taking shelter from the hordes of pagans and eating matza soup in Park City, we decided to ski Timpanogos on our way to Indian Creek. The views above Provo are pretty awesome; I need to return to ski the West Face. Then we drove to Moab and found a cheap hotel for the frigid desert night. The next day we were all elated on first sight of Indian Creek. Then we were climbing sheer splittery bliss. Bliss became wideness I like the sun. The next day we drove through snow to the Needles Overlook. The view down toward the Colorado River was a spectacular moonscape, with added contrast from the snow. Then Davide made post-beer preparations for redemption. Couturier in effect. I nearly lost my hands to the deep freeze while cleaning this. Cecile searches for the elusive butt-jam. Stoked before a pitch that redefines my idea of a nice hand crack. yeah baby, yeah And it just don't stop. Get some, buddy. Then the snow came, I saw my mom and sister for the first time in years, and we skied flat Colorado powders. A shot of Rio Grande Gorge. HAPPY NEW YEAR Gear Notes: Too much shit for an airplane, but it was worth it. Approach Notes: I'm moving somewhere sunny.
  16. I think we already claimed our bragging rights? http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/914707
  17. Ray Jardine is a mighty backpacker and he designs and makes his own tarps! Here you go, the smart people and kindred spirits you seek are here!
  18. I might try to con my way into CERN one of these days, but that's not the job for me!
  19. "If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet." -Holden Caulfield
  20. You should buy that book. It's the best ski guide ever written, for the really realz.
  21. Thanks for a great time, buddy! I agree about the pitch off Snafflehound Ledge. I would've been raining haterade on Eric when I realized it would be his lead, had I not led it previously.
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