Kameron

t I was driving back from the end of the MF Nooksack FS road once and some guys were hanging around their car. One of them waved as we drove by and they chatted us up. The dude had been riding around on his dirt bike with a pistol in his waistband and it had fallen out. Kind of sheepishly, they asked if we'd seen it on the road. We said "nah" and got out of there.

Hi Max, I'm not sure what makes that approach more "legit" than going in from the MF Nooksack. As far as I can tell, either route passes through Hampton land which is gated and officially requires permission from the landholder. The route in from the MF Nooksack is also bikeable. If I'm off on those details, though, I'd be keen to hear it

Old timers tell me that back in the day it was unlocked. Back before ski touring or climbing was very popular... shit, it's listed in the Burgdorfer ski guidebook. I don't think the Hampton company has any interest in opening up that gate to anybody that's non-paying.

The snowmobile hut up Canyon creek is paid for by the club. The other 3 are paid for by the guide companies/businesses running them. That cost would be covered by use fees, some of which would be bundled into guided ski day fees.

New version of proposal surfaces: https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/USDAFS/2024/04/03/file_attachments/2836295/20240403-Temporary Winter Shelters-Public_Scoping_Letter_DRSigned.pdf 2 weeks until the public meeting in Sedro-Wooley

Yes! We are about 1.5 months ahead of the usual time when access to the volcanoes becomes doable. The coverage on the Baker glaciers above 7k feels "okay". These glaciers also melted a lot last summer... the ice features are changing surprising amounts year-year.

In case you haven't heard, access to Kulshan is pretty good right now. Snow on Saturday was the pow pow.

June is usually later than the isothermal mush season. It should be consolidated for skiing/hiking. With this year's snowpack, there probably will not be much snow below white pass come June. I saw a trip report from last weekend up there and it seemed like skiing coverage is "good" now (not much snow in the valley hike, mostly continuous above).

He was a friend of many of my friends. Although I did not know him personally, it makes me sad to lose an outdoor lover during their pursuits. Especially given his young family.

Nice to see some Coq love

I think it's actually coming now!

I would also like to buy one of these.

I have about the same size feet as you. Measure US 13 and wear 13 or 14 (47 or 48 euro size) shoes/boots. For me, 48 is big enough, and that's the size of my Garmont summer mountaineering boots which accept semi-auto. For ski boots I'm in size 28-30. Works for me, but definitely need some punches or shell molding in the smaller size resort ski boots!

I was up thereabouts a week ago skiing on rocks and the ice on the Polish route on Colfax looked decent. Crappy pic but best I could get

Nice shots as usual, Jason! I did Hadley trail-running style late summer last year, and it was a blast that way too.

Ice climbing isn't really my thing, but I was hoping the photo could be useful for you. Good luck finding partners!

One guy we chatted with had trail runners and no snow gear and avoided the glacier entirely

Got a look at the N face on Saturday, ice looked discontinuous. Messy sounds right

Missed this report until now! Looks like a great route. I went up Ruth on Saturday and found a rapidly melting, bare glacier. You can just go under and around to the left to avoid it. We walked across the left arm of ice and around the backside of the cliff to get to the top.

I think it'll be fairly easy for you to just figure it out. There are some nice creekside spots up Canyon creek road. Options also out towards Hannegan Pass or up the Twin Lakes road. You basically just need to get away from the main Baker highway and you'll start finding them.

There are no bolts, just some fixed rappel anchors using webbing etc. I saw some reports from last few weeks where the summit gully was partially snow-covered making for more complicated descent. I'm not sure if that's still the case after all this warm weather.

Fun looking ski hill, one of these years I'll have to schralp it

Great photo of that spot. Did you go in from the MF Nooksack road?

What an epic! Way to persevere through lots of gnar.

That's a great persepective on the E ridge!