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go ski sw chutes

Indeed, if anyone wants to house/dog site our place in Bend later this summer (not sure of dates yet) PM me.

canyon creek meadows is super secret corn stash, you must sign an NDA before you see my footage

fwiw we went up to Jack Lake last Saturday. There was no snow on the canyon creek meadows trail for the first 1.5 miles, very easy to get to the meadows, snow from there-on. This approach is quicker than the PCT approach, no threat of snags, just a nice easy traverse around the SE bowl to the normal ridge route, and it is very purdy in the meadows. i'll post a pict maybe, if you are all good boys.

i must say, this was my first forray into iMovie, and that is a pretty easy to use, neat little application. chalk up another point for osX.

duh! http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/threadz/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=UBB23&Number=184030

cross postin to the freshie forum w00t http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/timmy/MiddleSister.mov

leave the snow shoes at home, and bring the sunscreen. snow is steady from 6400' and above, travel early and you shouldn't be post holing too much at all.

Climb: Middle Sister-North Ridge -> SE Ridge Ski Date of Climb: 6/22/2004 Trip Report: Visual TR, snoboy gets to provide the text... but we went up to middle sister yesterday and enjoyed some of the sister's booty! http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/timmy/MiddleSister.mov Approach Notes: snow steady from timberline and on up

Dru "Hey Distel" Distel "Yeah dude wasup?" Dru "I don't want to sound queer or nothing, but I think www.bikerfox.com is pretty hot"

show of hands of how many people will be charging down there this weekend? thats right, lets see, 1..2 ...6...12..., ohhh and you back there? how many? maybe we can have a powder 8 competition down the SW chutes? I'll install some fixed lines up the south side!

south face of n sister was already pretty burnt out, but last i was up there it looked damn good! i still think SE ridge on middle is one of the best descents in the sisters!

j00 are wrong, chinook is like a tomahawk missle, i command him to drop coils, and he'll travel north, consuming turds along the way, and drop a steemer on yer foot bish!

drul i can drop coils on you from anywhere

i've had my stubais for many years, solid piece of gear for any type of 'ponning needs (cept ice climbing, but i don't do that). used em on glacier slogs, steep snow, and steep dirt! used them for the first time yesterday on my denali lasers and they were solid.

i'm going to ski SICK BIG LINES, and drink, and drop brown coils on you all from great heights

from forbes.com K2 Inc. to Buy Volkl, Marker and Marmot 06.16.2004, 07:17 AM Consumer products company K2 Inc. reported Wednesday that it signed three definitive agreements to purchase Volkl Sports Holding AG and Marker Group for about $124 million in stock, cash and assumed debt, as well as Marmot Mountain Ltd. for about $84 million in stock, cash and debt. K2 plans to close the acquisitions by mid-July, and expects the companies to add to earnings this year. The company will finance the purchases through a combination of debt and equity. "The Volkl and Marker acquisitions are very significant in that they continue our strategy of building a truly global winter products platform for K2," said Richard Heckmann, K2's chairman and chief executive officer. Volkl, established in Germany in 1889, makes premium skis with an average retail price point above $500. K2 intends to maintain Volkl's automated manufacturing facility in Straubing, Germany. Marker, founded in 1952, is a ski bindings manufacturer, with an estimated market share of more than 40 percent in the United States. Marker has partnerships with Volkl and K2 to sell integrated ski and binding systems. In the past season, the company said a significant percentage of K2 skis were sold as integrated systems with Marker bindings. On a combined basis, Volkl and Marker generated total sales of $171.9 million in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004. Marmot, founded in 1971, makes technical outdoor apparel and equipment, including performance jackets, expedition garments, fleeces, skiwear outerwear and accessories, gloves, and tents, packs and sleeping bags. Retail price points for Marmot's products range from $80 to $400, and sales for 2004 are expected to be $74 million. Marmot currently produces skiwear under a license with Marker Group.

sweet! from what i've seen so far, north/east facing aspects are a bit more setup... but nonetheless, this current weather will buff things up pretty nice. thanks for the pics iain! that avvy debri is just insane huh

I think it is the work of Michael Moore's secret cult, TCLA, the cheeseburgerchubber liberation alliance. All the bombs are going to blow up on opening night of Farenheit 9/11

Climb: Middle Sister-North Ridge Date of Climb: 6/16/2004 Trip Report: What would you do if you had a million dollars? "Two chicks at once" The checklist was complete - high pressure - beyatchin corn - okay from special lady friend - car shuttle It was time to get on two of the sisters in one day, two chicks at once, what more could a dude ask for? Pole Creek TH at 3:30am was a magical place. As I stepped out of the truck i was greeted to a dark sky littered with stars and the sounds of the coyotes howling in the pre-dawn darkness... the wild dogs felt the stoke, they were telling me the day was going to be good. It amazes me how trails transform under night... a trail that i have traveled many times before was suddenly a new place, with different sites, and sounds... i was in a trance until daybreak at timberline: The alpenglow was amazing, and the pink mountains pushed the needle to the top of the stoke-o-meter... i was making good time, and really thought I was actually gonna get to ski a shizzy load of corn! The magic continues when i arrived at the hayden moraine, and discovered cc.com's own 'boonecounty' slumbering away in his bivvy. After some quick chat i continued on towards the north ridge of middle sister. The snow on the hayden was beautiful... perfectly laid in, optimally setup from a few days of freeze/thaw... stoke continues to get higher as i drop in the iPod tunes, and rock up to the saddle. I arrived at the base of the north ridge just prior to 7am, just about the same time the winds started to kick up. Still riding high on the stoke, i took a break and waited for the winds to let up a bit... but after about 15 minutes i got impatient and started up the north ridge. There was a nice boot pack going up so i strapped the skis on the pack and moved up higher thinking "well maybe it isn't as windy higher up the ridge". After getting blown over a couple of times i decided to put on the 'pons and get 'serious' about this endeavor ... moving higher up the ridge, the gusts continued, and the sustained winds had me crawling on hands/knees/pon points up the north ridge.... around this time, just shy of 10k, i was full on humping the ridge, watching chunks of rime whizz by my head, i realized that this was kind of sucking.. the stoke was wearing off, and i didn't want to become a gaper kite anymore. waiting for the winds to calm down so i ducked behind a rock outcrop and waited some more. time was passed by throwing chunks of rhime ice above the ridge, and watching the winds cary it 100+ yards through the air before dumping it down onto the renfrew glacier. I love times like this in the mountains where i really just don't give a shit about anything else in the world... i know i'm not going to be uber core and do my big trip, but i'm having fun throwing chunks of ice into the wind. after fahking around on the ridge for 2 hours, i decided to just call it a day and go ski the hayden, cuz it did look really tasty. the turns were fantastic from top to bottom... even the dirty snow down low made for some fun corn turns. brokentops north side looking sick got back to the car around 12:30, not a single regret in my head, only a smile on my face. The 'sisters' are primo right now, wax your boards and go get it. Snow level on the west side approach was solid snow above 6300', plenty of love above! Gear Notes: kite Approach Notes: lots of gapers on trail during hike out, favorite comment was a lady who asked "Did you ski up there?"

took this from prouty point today, i'm guessing the road to jack lake is open, but from that pict you can see that there is still a good deal of snow up there... on the east side of sisters, snow was constant from 6300' and higher.

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chinook, plab puppy

my dogs hump more than yours

CORN BEYOTCHEZ! c o r n sweet corn corn = tits