JasonG

Yeah @seano- I think you'd love it up there. So much can be done in a long day from the Asulkan hut (or road, or Wheeler hut). I really shouldn't have waited so long to visit in winter. Thanks @Trent for adding some photos of yours truly- you weren't slowing me down any!

https://www.recreation.gov/activitypass/4280e9ae-d010-11ea-8e82-82c0c22bed90 Looks like you have to buy something to climb Adams now? I didn't know this.

🤣. I'll make sure whomever gets them!

Trip: Asulkan Hut Ski Week - Youngs Peak, Sapphire col, Ravens, Forever Young, 7 steps to Paradise Trip Date: 03/15/2023 Trip Report: It is better to be lucky than good, and last week we were definitely lucky up at the Asulkan Hut. Much thanks to @wbk for organizing the madness and bringing such a strong crew to the trip, including @therunningdogand @Trent. I felt a bit old and weak with the crew assembled, but that was entirely a good thing. Pretty inspiring to watch the younger guns charge hard all week! We skied in just before a significant storm and warm up, content to lap the trees below the hut on our first full day in. As the week went on, the weather and stability improved significantly, allowing us to ski classic lines like the Seven Steps to Paradise, Forever Young, The Ravens, and Dome Headwall. Seven steps, in particular, the group skied many, many times. So much good terrain up there, it is quite impressive! I think that there are few huts that can compete, even those that you fly into. I caught myself marveling nearly every day at our good fortune, but I suspect that it is often pretty good up there. I had stayed away from Rogers Pass for many years, scared of the terrain and avalanche paths. Maybe this was warranted, maybe I was too timid. Regardless, this trip was proof that mortals can indeed safely ski up there- if you take it easy. Just remember, this isn't a coastal snowpack! Gear Notes: skis, avy gear....brought ropes and such and never used Approach Notes: Asulkan valley, go up!

Show up to a pubclub or be banned!

I agree on the bot, Jesse, same with Meer Hadi. Oh wait, looks like you got him already @olyclimber

and ended very sunny: I'll do a TR in the next week or so!

Just got back from a week at the Asulkan Hut....it started out deep!

Damn, that is quite the image. Way to keep a positive attitude! And very sorry to hear about your accident @psathyrella. That sucks but it sounds like you are making the best of it.

Glad to help the cause @olyclimber! Happy to do it again sometime..... Seems like it could be a good way to raise funds every other year?

The film is out!

I'd say keep it loose and go where the weather and conditions look good....for whatever. Seems like the storm track will be north or south but not both. Please post a TR with whatever you get up to! That's a great time to up up on the Wapta or Bow-Yoho ski tours...but that might be too pedestrian.

No, but I was up today with @cfire and @kmfoerster.... knee deep trailbreaking, waist deep off the skis. It was......good.

DEEP up around Union peak earlier this week. @therunningdog plows the way forward:

Chelan is a top-notch rescue unit, and now a member of the MRA! @gyselinck and others did a great job this past fall getting Chelan Mountain Rescue through the WMRA rock accreditation. Bottom line, when things go bad over in Chelan County, you can be confident that these folks have your back. But please, this isn't Europe. We're all volunteer and it really is better if we're never called.

Usually it takes some melt/freeze to get ice on these routes, often not coming into good shape until later in April. Given the March we are having I would expect powder, spindrift and rock.

Wow! These winter bulger trips always sound like death marches to me, but you seem to still enjoy them!

Granite Gl. icefall:

HOW DID I MISS A 1972 SHOT OF DALLAS??!!!!

It is easy to judge from our keyboards.... However, having avalanched my partners out of a couloir in Canada a few years ago (both OK with bruises and broken gear), I definitely am more prone to giving folks the benefit of the doubt when accidents like this occur. The danger was "moderate" at the time of the slide..... It is not a safe hobby we practice, and we make decisions with incomplete information, on the fly. If we think, as the living, that we are the safe and smart ones, we are probably deluding ourselves. The full write up that NWAC produces on this accident will be good for all of us to read and learn from. Condolences to the many friends and family affected by this.

Yes!!!! An absolute classic, I need to re-read this thread. Thanks @olyclimber!

So, I think I may only have one other legend, reported to me by @sepultura. He climbed Arches peak in 2009 and reported that Roger had signed into the register some years prior, saying something to the effect of : "North Face. No route description, no rope, no problem. Roger Jung". He didn't give it a grade and I'm sure never reported it, but it is most certainly a FA . . .

The same fall Roger went missing, I ran into his father, Jim Jung, on a late season scramble of Corteo (I was solo, he was with a partner). We talked of his son's exploits and I could tell there was a lot of worry and pain in the strain of his disappearance. I still remember Jim's parting words to me..... "Please keep an eye out for my son". I still do, maybe more so now that I am a father to two boys of my own.

This register is one of my favorites:

Great idea for a thread!! I will take some time in coming weeks to piece together a bit of the story I know.....