petmac

I meant that weather advisories are not what I was looking for from folks, though I do appreciate your responding to my thread. I am looking for first hand accounts, but yea the NOAA has great stuff on their sites, I use them a bit. Thanks again peter

I went to Ellinor this Tuesday Jan 17th to drop over the north of the mountain and poke around. Due to a fresh new dumping of 1-2 feet i did not make even the summit. I parked my car a half-mile before the first trailhead and walked the road up, then took a short cut through a regeneration forest plot to the upper trailhead. Just getting that far was a tough due to me brakeing train. Finally on the trail after two and a half to three hours later, the “snow” became crusted over with ice making it quite a rigorous hike. I tried to take the “winter” trail up the gully but turned around after watching smaller snow slides and avalanches in surrounding gullies, so I turned to the “summer” route and made it to the base of the bowl/face. I was not sure of its ability to hold me so a went to a small iced over cliff to the left for fun and swung my tools for a bit to see if the now developing white out would pass…it didn’t and I decided to turn around. I took the trail back to the lower trailhead. Needed snow shoes the whole way, on and off trail. I m going to let the acumulated/ing snow settle for a few days and then retry. No photos, sorry. peter

yea its the potential avalanche bag that worrys me. i have little worrys of getting in to the base of the Mtn. i would repel using well packed balurds, get out(up again) might be a problem. evert time i look at it when i am there i think it would be best to repel in from a spot on the ridge to washington...just below eliron . but i would like to see more phtos of the north face of that ridge and elinor. enjoy life pete

I’m looking for info regarding the current snow line, tempotures, and accumulations around the park. I want to get out and do some more exploring, but I would like to know of any recent conditions. Weather.com is not the place that seek. Also I am in search of info pertaining to the climbing of the north face of Ellinor, in winter, or any other technical climbs that are may exist around Ellinor Pond. Photos, trip reports, stories are greatly appreciated. Thanks. And how about these past 2 days of no rain! Hoping it stays like this! Enjoy life Pete

thanks..

is there any ice climbing beta in this new edition

i know that this is CASCADEclimbers.com and not olympicclimbers.com, but i have a question for you guys. i have been exploring the olympics for a bit now, as far as ice goes, and i was wondering if anyone else is in the process of hunting out new ice lines in the mtns. i know its out there, i have even read about a few spots. any leads let me know, and if any one wants to trek down gullys and off trails to find these secret gems let me know. signed bewildered