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-9.81!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!} 9.8 m/s/s Fuck that metric bull its 32 f/s/s

Can we please stop calling him, "john," and refer to him as Nolse. Also I'd like to hear more about wind shirts.

I'm a big fan of the low angle slab at the UW Rock.

It's just a friendly heads up to climbers who are going to whimper when they get their ropes cut. Go climb somewhere that isn't a ski route or pay the price.

Yes it is.

Nice TR Amar and photos Hendershot.

If you and your family weren't born in the NW please feel free to go back to wherever the fuck it is you're actually from if you don't like it here.

A tropical rain forest is older than 60 years, so is a Siberian forest. The study notes material that was stored under trees for 1000 years. 1000 > 60.

Planting New Forests Can't Match Saving Old Ones in Cutting Greenhouse Gases, Study Finds Source The analysis, published in the journal Science today, was done by Dr. Ernst-Detlef Schulze, the director of the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany, and two other scientists at the institute.

Trip: Shuksan - White Salmon Glacier Date: 4/26/2008 Trip Report: [font:Arial Black] White Salmon Glacier [/font] [font:Times New Roman]On Wednesday the 23rd JH and I tried to ski up on Shuksan on the way back from our Phelix Creek trip. We bailed due to bad visibility that day. I looked at the forecast and picked Saturday as the best return date. On Saturday JH, Amar, Dave, tanstaafl, and I drove up to the lower lot at the Baker Ski Area. We debated about our start time since we did not leave the car until 9:15 AM. The ski up is straightforward. Just follow the cat track towards Shuksan then traverse through the woods and descend slightly to the base of the White Salmon Glacier. From there head up the glacier. We did run into one tricky spot when Amar opened up a crevasse with his ski, but with a more detailed look at the snow surface conditions we made it up to the top of the glacier. We could have easily skied up Winnie’s Slide, but an extra 100 ft of vertical didn’t seem worth it. After a brief lunch break, it was all downhill. The skiing was nice on the upper half of the glacier. The upper slope was all nice powder. We had a great start. About 2/3ds of the way down we hit some breakable crust. The sun warmed the crust enough by the time we hit it that the skiing became more challenging, but not too hard. In the end, we had a great run to the bottom of the slope. . Looking down the White Salmon Glacier The view back towards the top. We saw 5 other people out skiing this day. From there a traverse with a little uphill skiing takes you back to the ski area cat-track. The ski area bar was open on our return to the car, but we chose to drive home. All in all an excellent day skiing. [/font] Gear Notes: Skis, Boots, Skins, poles. Water and some type of sun block is nice. Approach Notes: We started from the lower parking lot at Baker. They do gate the parking lot when the ski area is closed. You might have to find parking out on the main road. Stay at a steady altitude till you are in the basin under Shuksan. You may want to descend some at this point

I know it isn't a super popular holiday with most people, but I thought I'd make note of the day. If you have the space and time go plant a tree. Here's some reading material I planted a mini version of this in my yard. It'll take a fey years to get this big. Gymnocladus dioicus

Hmmmm. Resource Fees. I think I could get a waver on that one since my family has been here since before Washington was a State. If it makes any difference I'm willing to apologise for the Pig War.

I had a feeling there might be another name, but I couldn't find it.

I forgot to add this picture Mt Aragorn. You can see the edge of the east face which has an impressive chunk of granite.

I haven't seen Snogirl since the last Ski-In, so I'm for the 17/18, but I can make it any weekend.

JH sent this add on version for the TR last night.

Trip: Brian Waddington Hut - Mount Gandalf, Aragorn, Shadowfax, and others Date: 4/16/2008 Trip Report: [font:Arial Black]Introduction [/font] [font:Times New Roman] After spending weeks thumbing through the book Exploring the Coast Mountains on Skis back a few years ago I figured I was long overdue to go on some cool ski trips just north of Vancouver. In this case, I figured the best policy to start small then go big. With that in mind, the classic Spearhead Traverse was a good start, so in March of 2002, I skied that with my friend Cman. I decided to link the Spearhead up with other traverses in the Coast Range. It may not be the true start to a Coast Range trip, but after spending a bunch of time rock climbing in Squamish it seemed like skiing from Whistler to Elfin Lake was the thing to do. Based on that I skied the McBride Traverse with jordop and his friend Jon. Those two trips were great, but now I needed to head northwards; therefore, I skied from Blackcomb to Pemberton with JH. Hitchhiking to Blackcomb for the rig after making it to Pemberton sucked, but the trip was worth it. Next year JH and I took a short helicopter flight up and to the east of Pemberton. The pilot was funny he played Fleetwood Mack on the speakers for five minutes until he dropped us on the south shoulder of Mount Ronayne. He briefly asks us, “You guys know where you are?” then he was gone. In a six days we skied NW to the North Creek/Hurley divide. From there a ski down the Hurley River brought us back to the Railroad Pass road, and a snow cat ride delivered us at our truck. Later that year I took one more ski trip to put me on the edge of the big Coast Range glaciers. With that in mind JH, jordop, my friend tanstaafl, and I took a plane ride to the Fasp Glacier skied up Icemaker Peak then with a stay at the Pebble Creek cabin we traveled back down the Hurley to the road. Things were going great on my treck. JH named my series of trips my, “Magical Mystery Tour.” This last trip happened in May of 2006. Unfortunately, I suffered a very bad work related accident in June of 2006. It was bad enough that day-to-day living became extremely complicated for me and there was no thought of skiing the next ski season. That all changed late in 2007. I decided I needed to go on another long trip. My original intension was to start this trip from Icemaker Mountain, but a prolonged winter caused JH and me to rethink our goal. JH dubbed my traverse as my Magical Mystery Tour, but since flying to Icemaker was not reasonable, I call this my, “One Piece at a Time Tour based on the song by Johnny Cash. [/font] One Piece at a Time [font:Arial Black] April 16[/font] [font:Times New Roman] My plan was to leave Seattle this day. Things managed to get a little complicated though since I had to make sure I had some important medical stuff (no this is not a code phrase). Because of the situation, we could not leave town as planned, but we did come up with an alternate destination for skiing. Our idea was to ski part of the Stein Traverse. I knew folks mentioned problems with the road in, but I figured we would find a way around it. In the end, we decided to depart the next morning.[/font] [font:Arial Black]April 17 [/font] [font:Times New Roman]In the morning, we left Seattle and headed up I-5. Things went well, and we passed the immigration test at the border. There is not too much to say about the drive up other than the highway department had better hurry up since the Olympics are not too far away. We got to Pemberton and then headed down Lillooet Lake. We found the Lizzie Lake Road and headed up the river. There was a problem early on with the road, but we figured that we could follow the road up a ways and find a way around the problem. After driving a ways, we reached a point where the snow started, so we left the car and skied up the road. After a little elevation gain, we could finally see where we wanted to be. At that point it became painfully obvious that we were going to have to do a long bushwhack traverse to get into Lizzie Lake. None of this looked fun, so we skied back to the car. We drove down to the lake and found a campsite. After some talk, we decided to try to change our objective to skiing up Phelix creek to a hut on Long Lake. I had tried that trip a few years back with jordop, but we bailed due to early season lack of snow. [/font] [font:Arial Black]April 18 [/font] [font:Times New Roman]In the morning we drove north to Pemberton had breakfast and bought a map. Then we drove to Birkenhead Lake and parked. I had been up the approach before, and it is straightforward. The road goes up past old logging cuts then up through tagged trees to Long Lake. At the east end of the lake, you can spot the cabin at the west end easily. We got to the cabin and moved in. The mountains looked fantastic. We were excited about skiing. [/font] The view east towards Taillefer [font:Arial Black]April 19 [/font] [font:Times New Roman] The weather was a little snowy but not too bad. We skied west to the upper lake and then headed up what we thought was Mount Shadowfax. Later we learned that the map is mislabeled and we were actually skiing up Mount Gandalf. The peak names in this area are from characters in The Lord of the Ring. We skied up the west side to a high point where the summit was in easy reach, but the skiing above looked dumb. We skied down. It was fun, but I discovered that my new skis and bindings had some problems that needed adjusting. The snow was one inch of nice new snow on top of spring snow that due to temperature drop became icy with lots of avalanche debris. Back at the hut, I found a screwdriver and did some adjusting to my set up. The fix I did worked well for the rest of the trip. As we were messing with my skis, a group of 10 or 12 folks from a British Columbia Mountaineering Club (BCMC) group showed up and moved in for the weekend. [/font] [font:Arial Black] April 20[/font] [font:Times New Roman] Jeff and I skied up to a high point on the north side of Shadowfax. The map made it look like you could summit on this side. You can, but its 4th class climbing and not skiing. We had an excellent descent back to the hut and ate lunch. Then we headed up a peak just south of the hut. The peak has no name on the map, but given other naming in the area it should be Mount Frodo. We reached the summit here. There is an excellent north-facing chute off the top and right back to the hut. The snow here had the most powder in the area, and it made for the best skiing. Back at the hut, we spent the time talking to the BCMC folks and going through the available reading material. The Varsity Outdoor Club (VOC) owns the hut. They left a number of VOC journals. I have never had occasion to read any of the journals, so it was an interesting set of books to have available. Thumbing through the books, I found a number of stories written by Fern and some guy named Drew. All their stories were entertaining, but I noticed a trend in some of the more recent VOC journals. This Drew guy seemed to express some bitterness towards the VOC. I am not sure what to make of that but it did provide the most entertainment. The BCMC group was also interesting. One of them questioned why we had come north of the border and not stayed in the US to ski yet none of them was actually Canadian. They all hailed from Britain, Germany, and France. Anyhow, they were all having a good time, but they had to leave to head back to Vancouver that evening. [/font] "Mt Frodo," to the south of the cabin [font:Arial Black] April 21[/font] [font:Times New Roman]Jeff and I had spent some time eyeing ski lines. On the south face of Shadowfax we spotted a steep couloirs headed down from a sub summit. There were some large icy chunks from previous avalanches in the couloirs, but all and all the line looked good. We headed up the couloirs. The uptrack was good but icy as usual. At about half height, the snow got icy enough that kicking a boot track proved more efficient than skiing up. We got to the top and had a super ski down. The couloir had about the same slope as the Slot Couloir on Mount Snoqualmie. The slope was a little technical given the ice, and avoiding the frozen avalanche debris was exciting, but it was an enjoyable run. After lunch at the hut we headed back up Mount Frodo and found a slightly different line to descend. [/font] Mount Shadowfax with the, "White Rider," as the obvious couloir A view down the, "White Rider." [font:Arial Black] April 22[/font] [font:Times New Roman] We decided that the one thing left to do in the area was ski down Mount Aragorn. The BCMC folks told us that there was a good but very easy ski route on the north side. Under other conditions, you can get to the north side by reaching the Gandalf-Aragorn col then skiing around to the north. This year there were some large cornices at this col, so the route did not look safe. We spotted another line on the south face adjacent to a large rock wall on the east face at the mountain. We gained as much altitude as we could, but we had to stop before we gained too much exposure to the east face. The descent down was fun, and we had a great run back to the cabin. Back at the cabin, we ate lunch and decided that we had done enough skiing in the area for now, so we packed up and headed down Phelix Creek. Getting back to the car was easy. We drove back to Squamish and had dinner (not at the Howe Sound Brewery). From here, we decided to head back to the states and try to ski on part of Shuksan. We drove to the Hannegan Pass road and camped out. [/font] [font:Arial Black]April 23 [/font] [font:Times New Roman] In the morning, it looked cloudy and snowy. We drove to the Baker ski are. The visibility was horrible. After sitting in the lot for a minute, we decided that we needed better visibility to ski the line we wanted to and we were not psyched enough to ski around Table Mountain. We headed back to Seattle and that concludes our trip.[/font] [font:Arial Black]Conclusion [/font] [font:Times New Roman]We did not get to do what I was hoping we would, but overall we had a good trip. In the future, I will be back to Icemaker. [/font] Gear Notes: Buy a map! Bring food! Skis, boots, and poles are advised. Conditions change, but this year ski crampons were required. Approach Notes: Drive to Pemberton then Birkenhead Lake. Park at Phelix Creek and head up. Follow an old logging road then a marked trail to Long lake.

or something like that And to think I had to sneak beer and wine from my parents or get a friend of a friend to buy it. Modern society rules.

I believe Fairweather's statements on Global Warming have much more to do with his hatred of Al Gore than scientific facts. It isn't too surprising that behavior like this still happens. I heard on the news the other day that 20% of all Americans still believe the sun revolves around the earth.

salbrecher I suggest you do a little research before making brash statements. Contrast your statement with Source Furthermore Source After reading your statements I think back to the classic quote.

The noise and the stink of snowmobiles is the main thing most climbers and bc skiers have against them. Well that and I remember seeing lots of empty beer cans thrown on the glacier around Baker.

That's pretty funny

Buddy may be dead, but at least he knows his bombs really do work.

Actually Memorial Day is fine by me. It's my favorite holiday. But whatever weekend will work too. DP brought his young son to at least one Ski In and the boy had a great time.

I may not have time to mess with the Google map for a week or two, but that's ok. I agree the 70 degree temps may not have made for the best skiing over the last couple days, but it's just a sign of all the great spring skiing to come.