philfort
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You could take a bike... I think it's 6 or 7 miles from the highway to White River campground.
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If you're looking for better weather, do stuff right off of highway 20 near Rainy and Washington Passes. If you want the most fresh snow, do stuff from the Mt Baker ski area, or the Coleman-Deming trailhead (Glacier Ck - not sure how far it's driveable right now).
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Nice, but you should have carried some skis :-)
Too bad you didn't get a clear view of Elija Ridge - that looks like some nice terrain on the north side of it. I tried to go in there once via Panther Creek, but it didn't work out too well.
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I'm like Alex - I've failed on a lot of things once, never to go back again... or else failed only once, and then succeeded (on my admittedly modest objectives)
3 attempts on Chair Pk, w/o success
2 attempts on Maude in winter, before succeeding
2 attempts on Vesper N face before succeeding
2 attempts on Jack, w/o success
2 attempts on Shuksan, w/o success (3 if you count never leaving the trailhead as an attempt)
2 attempts on Forbidden Pk before succeeding
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I kan't imajine the cendall katwalk has much snow left after all this warm weather.
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You guys cheated by using a snowmobile
I only lent it to you so your ascent would not count!
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Valley floor is at 3500ft, so I guess those could be really big trees down there...
Very nice line....
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Looks like there's a mini slot couloir on the right there in Klenke's photo... isn't shown at all on the topo map, but shows up on the aerial photo.
How's the coverage in Thunder Ck basin?
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If you go to Kyes, bring a bike. The Index/Galena road is gated for the winter well before the trailhead.
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The Chiwawa road is a groomed snowmobile route, closed to cars in winter at Fish Lake (but the "gate" is just a large moveable sign):
http://www.parks.wa.gov/winter/parks/motorparks.asp?Park=113
"Snow not expected to last this weekend because of unseasonably high temperatures. Trails being evaluated."
But I doubt you'd be able to get anywhere close to the summer trailhead in a car in winter (it's 23 miles from the closure) - the snowpack is a lot more reliable and persistent there than it is on the west side.
btw, Maude is in the N Cascades, not Alpine Lakes
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and that was before the pineapple express came though.
Looks like we're headed for record minimums. Mission Ridge is already below the record mininum set for Jan 15th, with 10 inches. And Baker has 19 inches now... record minimum for JAn15th was 15 inches.
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I really don't care about St Helens at this point unless I'm looking for a nice base grind.
Before this rain event, looks like St Helens had some of the deepest snowpack in the state:
http://www.skimountaineer.com/CascadeSki/CascadeSnow2005.html
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Kiddie cliff is a full rope-length if you include the bottom section, which usually gets burried by snow pretty early on.
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The Tracker's harness system requires a PhD in mechanical engineering to understand.
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We somehow thought there would be snow SOMEWHERE in SWBC. Tried to go into the hut in Phelix Creek: 3 inches of snow in the forest About 10 inches on the Duffey, no help there. Read this morning that this is the lowest snow year in 15 years
I'm headed into to Mariott Basin for a few days on Jan 1st... hopefully the snowpack in the Duffy Lake area is a little better than 10 inches at higher elevations?
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I snowmobiled in there once before. I think it was 10 miles from the winter closure to the Ingalls TH. That place is swarming with machines in the winter.
29 pines:
http://www.parks.wa.gov/winter/parks/motorparks.asp?Park=108
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Saturday: Mostly sunny. Freezing level 10500 feet. Afternoon pass temperatures in the upper 30s.
Saturday night through Monday: Partly cloudy. Freezing level above 15000 feet. Afternoon pass temperatures in the upper 30s.
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I don't think that first shot is the Necklace Valley off highway 2. Those trees look like pine trees, which I don't think you'd find in the Foss river valley.
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As for the switch; I can deskin & locking with skis on. Takes a minute or two. Splitboarders are still trying to play match the
split then
battlecage on!
I can switch my split faster than most skiers can get into downhill mode
And skiers are always grateful to have a splitter bust trail up steep powder wallows
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Splitboards rock.
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Get an AT setup. It will probably be the most versatile, safest and least work (learning curve, etc...).
A splitboard could be the most fun, but isn't the most versatile... splitboards kind of suck for uphill in firm conditions. For trailbreaking uphill in deep snow though, a splitboard is a better tool. Skis are easier to navigate through dense trees, narrow trails, etc... even compared to a split in ski mode. Then again breakable crust is easier (and fun) on a board.
Tele is best for rolling up and down approaches or nasty approaches through frozen tree wells and over logs, where you want the stiffness of a descent tool, but the flexibility to climb.
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All the snow is disappearing, it was like summer today, and we are settling into a typical El Nino pattern :-(
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I don't know enough to come up with any more, but some of Lowell's entries suprise/confuse me, and so does one or two of Geordie's, so maybe I still don't know what's going on.
Although maybe I could add
Gardner, not Seven Finger Jack.
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Silver Star, not Fisher?
[TR] Cannon Mountain- Northwest Route 5/30/2005
in Alpine Lakes
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Is there much snow left around there? Or just in the couloirs?