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would have been killer to ski the coulior but I havn't quite worked up the balls to manage that. Part had been wiped clean by an avi the previous day during the warm wetness and there were a few long ice runnels that would have spiced things up for sure.

Trip: Colchuck - North Buttress Coulior Date: 3/26/2007 Trip Report: Scheissami and I trudged up to Colchuck Lake on Saturday. Sometimes it drizzled, sometimes it rained and sometimes it poured. Kept the approach upbeat but talking about how much fun we were having and how the rain was making the snow so much easier to snowshoe/ski on. By the way about 1.5 miles to consistent snow cover on the road. The next day dawned clear and cold Looked like the top 2/3 of dragontail got pretty plastered with snow. The route was lots of fun and had variable conditions including alpine ice, windbuffed powder, rotten snow and breakable crust. Great snow coverage all the way to the summit with only a few short thin sections. We spiced it up a bit by climbing the summitblock with some mixed climbing. I was really happy I brought my skis as I cruised from the summit to camp in little over 15 minutes. The powder on the top 2/3 of the glacier was the icing on the cake. These feeling of happiness soon changed as I attempted to ski down the trail back to the road. The snow that was soft and shitty was now hard and shitty making for very frustrating skiing. I wonder how those little knobs of frozen snow that stick up out of the snowpack form. Kind of look like chicken heads and ski like rocks. I perfected the manuvuer of grabbing trees to slow down and initiate turns. Scheissami on snow shoes left camp at the same time and he passed me and then stayed ahead till I finally caught up wth him on the road. Sheissami might post some pics as he had the camera. Gear Notes: small rack, rope, crampoons, ice tools Approach Notes: 1.5 miles to snow coverage on the road

p-town at omsi, 7 and 9 thursday-sunday

beacon has tons of stuff when its open what about out at broughtons. Short but I've seens some good seems out there. Index is probably about 4 hours away

shredmaximus that was me, seemed like you were enjoying the day. I heard some other folks hiked into the superbowl but I never saw those guys but they did leave some tracks. They didn't hike far enough to get the goods though. They started their downhill just as the snow changed over to corn. If you want the pow you gotta do the work. I had contacted the ski patrol that morning and they had told me that it wasn't a problem to skin up from the lot but that I should stay out of sight. I think the meadows gate to hiking was still closed unless you were willing to start working from the lot.

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Trip: Mt. Hood - Wy'East Face Date: 3/21/2007 Trip Report: Welcome to Spring!!! The day started with me sitting in the dentist chair listening to the sounds of oral surgey in the next room over. I though about my own impending discomfort and about the unlikely event of uses the skis I had stashed in the car. Then the dentist walked in and said looks like your absess is healing on its own. No surgery today and it's only 9:30. I was skinning out of Mt. Hood Meadows parking lot by 11:20. My plan was to head up towards the top of Heather Canyon to an area I know as the Super Bowl. The sun was out but the snow was staying light. I skinned for a few hours staying clear of skiers and the resort and eventually got to a the top of superbowl. A few inches of snow on top of a soft base made me rethink my options. The Wyeast face looked good and conditions were excellent. Why not just keep going till it seems sketchy. I skinned up to 10800, the top of Wyeast, and never really got too scared. The snow just kept getting deeper and my stoke just kept growing. The ski down was pretty damn good for Mt. Hood. Wind buffed powder from 10,800 to 9000 and then silky corn for a bit and finally resort mank around 6000. Back down at the car at 4:20 Some days everything just comes together and those days are the ones you remember. Got a few sweet pics but having trouble uploading so just use your imagination. Sun, clouds down low, powder, cascade volcanoes in the distance. Gear Notes: at touring...light and fast Approach Notes: west of ski area

I heard the club linked to below is presently looking for members that are willing to throw caution to the wind. Tiddlywinks.org Maybe it will keep some people away from the mountains if they have other hobbies...

Anybody know what climbing in the tetons in the beginning of April is like. I'm thinking of snow/ice/rock routes and some ski mountaineering.

Was out there on the 11th and my partner and I were going to climb zebra zion but...we got tired of waiting for the party in front of us. Seems like the dude following couldn't make it over the roof. Serious hangdogging. It was almost agonizing to watch. We finally decided to climb something else because we had low expectations for the dudes ability to climb the rest of the route in the remaining 4 hours of daylight. That hope that wasn't you guys.

Maybe you could learn how to travel on glaciers... I went end of july beginning of august and it wasn't an issue but I'm sure late august would be looking much different. Probably just more of a pain in the ass to get to climbs...ie boots, crampoons and ice ax would be a necesity. In july you can get away with tennies, crampoons and trecking poles.

should prove interesting to enforce. I can see it now...backcountry police with snowmobiles cruising around mt. hood tickiting climbers without a beacon above 10,000. it's great when the failures of a few must be carried by us all and no I'm not talking about our president this time

hmmmm what to say??? Great that everything worked out for the folks invovled but I'm kind of disgusted by the media hype and pending legislation. The mass media seems to run with stories that offer an oppurtunity for sensationalist reporting and run with them. Of course they do because in a free market their incentive is their consumer who doesn't give a rats ass about what's really going on in the news. News=entertainment 90% of the time. One thing that is nice about climbing is that in the mountains there is no hype. It's only you and your experience. You come back and tell about your experience but generally you don't make the news unless you do something really cool or something really stupid. Getting lost in a white out is neither really cool or really stupid. It happens somewhat frequently in the mountains. What strikes me as somewhat demeaning to the climbing community is that we have jumped on the media bandwagon and are doing the same thing. A beer named after the dog. What's next an action figure?? Another thing that I like about climbing is that you have to be self-sufficient. It's you and your shit and you have to be prepared. There is no-one telling you what to bring or what to do just the mountains saying be prepared. Now because of this as well as other recent news we may be having people telling us what we need to be doing on the mountain. That's not right and I hope some of the individuals in the media spotlight take a stand on this. Just my view on the thing. No disrespect to the important work that PMR does, the critical reporting going on every day during the Ellen Degeneres show, and of course the fine ales produced at the lucky lab.

tried the email but it didn't work???

I was camped out at appleby dome in the bugaboos and some jackass packs in speakers. All I remember is I'm trying to get to sleep for an alpine start the next day and all I hear is this jackass with his speakers. If you need music that bad you should just stay at home with the comforts of technology to insulate you from reality. Ok maybe I'm just a little bit bitter about that unfortunate event. I figure do what you want unless your bugging other people and speakers in the wilderness is just a little bit over the top. Headphones I could see but really I wonder why a person can't be content with their surroundings without an added distraction.

hate to be always saying it but shit man check out the wallowas aneroid mountain should be interesting it goes up to 9000+ and has some fun ski lines on it. it always stays a bit colder out there but even if it doesn't avi areas are easy to avoid If it gets cold enough at night sublimination sucks moisture out of the snow pack. I've been out there with 40 degree days and 20 degree nights. Refurbushed powder every day. But right after skiing powder skinning up bachelor is my favorite thing to do.

I skied down Helens with a guy on the BIG daddies and was amazed and how they punched through the ice. My skis kind of skated across and the big daddies cut into the ice like a chainsaw. The dude was laying down some pretty good sized arcs and going fast as hell. So if that's your style

http://www.atomicsnow.com/atomic.php?id=28&s=27 can you say BIG Daddy 125 underfoot and they only come in 190's Met a guy that swears by them for his backcountry boards.

I got stopped a couple of weeks ago by some ski patrol folks. We came from the top of yellow and skied down to the base of pea gravel. The ski patrol mentioned they could give us a ticket but instead the gave us a good solid talking to. Apparently the issue is that they don't want to release any avilanches on skiers when they are blasting. The cat track from hrm is open when they aren't blasting.

Good times out there on Friday. Thanks again for coming along. Definately the best snow conditions I've ever experienced on hood. If your curious the wallowas were equally excellent. Light, dry, and deep. Three days of skiing excellent powder makes me a happy camper. Averaged 5500 feet of vertical per day over the long weekend . Now I need to rest. Frank

anybody want to head up to hood or helens this friday?? weather is supposed to be clear and cold and all that new snow should be somewhat settled for some awesome backcountry turns.

I got a week off and only weekend partners at the moment. I would like to do something bigger requiring a bit of a drive some ideas... Grand Tetons Wapta Traverse in Canada Rogers Pass Nelson, Bc Red Rocks, Joshua Tree, or Yosemite up to 5.10 gear Peaks and Traverses in the Cascades pretty much open to the possibilities if you've got some good ideas

I can't go now but I have the first week in april off and was thinking of possibly doing the traverse then.

I was up there once and PMR borrowed right into the hogsback at the point were people usually sit around and rope up before going up. You'll definately want to be somewhat carefull. I was up in the newton creek drainage and set of a 100ft wide slide that traveled about 300ft. I triggered it by cutting a piece of cornice off and letting it fall. Fun!!!

i've been thinking of returning a pair of skis would that be wrong?