Alex Posted October 23, 2001 Posted October 23, 2001 Sno-slushy, Stevens, Blewett all have suspicious white powder Bets on when they close Washington Pass? Better get those few last climbs in... Alex Quote
offwidthclimber Posted October 23, 2001 Posted October 23, 2001 http://www.stevenspass.com/webcam/webcam.htm Quote
philfort Posted October 23, 2001 Posted October 23, 2001 Where's the best spot in washington pass for early season skiing? i.e. smooth underfoot, and high enough that it already had some base before this storm.... Quote
AlpineK Posted October 23, 2001 Posted October 23, 2001 I skied a couple runs up at Slate peak above Harts pass last weekend. It was kind of dumb, but it was fun to get out on the boards. The snow last weekend was on the Northeast side of the peak, but I bet there is a lot more now. Quote
mikeadam Posted October 24, 2001 Posted October 24, 2001 I mentioned in an earlier post that we skied the Muir with perfect snow conditions last Monday. http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/001064.html Bcollins skied it a few days ago and said it seemed good. With this fresh dump it might be possible to ski to/from the car for about 4400ft. See you there. Mike Quote
philfort Posted October 24, 2001 Posted October 24, 2001 Appears to be piling up nicely in WA pass: http://www.seawfo.noaa.gov/products/OSOWP9 Quote
jobe Posted October 24, 2001 Posted October 24, 2001 According the the WSDOT Washington Pass now has three feet of snow. Quote
Beck Posted October 24, 2001 Posted October 24, 2001 I was up on Mount Adams all day yesterday, messing aroung at 6,000 feet or so in three feet of beautiful fluffy light powder snow, fantastic to see such good quality snow so early in the year... Hart's Pass and Slate Peak offer good quality lower angle runs up to about 1,000 feet on some good smooth heather slopes, great place to put in some early season turns, if you can still drive to the Pass. Quote
jon Posted October 25, 2001 Posted October 25, 2001 Dude I didn't give you permission to post my picture. I CAN'T WAIT TO GO SKIINGG!!!! FLOATIN FRESHIE FACESHOTS, IT'S MAGICALLY SPRAYALICIOUS! Quote
To_The_Top Posted October 26, 2001 Posted October 26, 2001 Went up Granite Mtn today, saw snow at 3000' (wet), and once to the high point for us at 5200' there was atleast 18" and drifts over 2 feet. Oh yeah, the sun was out. Anything above about 4500' seemed to not be melting @3pm. Winter is coming. Bill Quote
Lambone Posted October 26, 2001 Posted October 26, 2001 Stevens is claiming a 16 inch base Sun stay away!!!!! Quote
philfort Posted October 26, 2001 Posted October 26, 2001 Went to Washington Pass yesterday. The skiing was fantastic - the sun came out, the snow was deep and dry, we had the whole place to ourselves, the larch trees still had most of their leaves. Did I mention the snow? It was deep and dry. October 25th, WOW! Not the absolute lightest stuff though, and trail-breaking was ridiculously hard. I'm sure by the weekend, a skin track will be established though. It did not seem to be wind affected at all, just soft stuff all the way down. Lots of snow slough avalanches when the sun hit the cliffs. There was about 2.5 feet of snow by the road at the pass, and about 4 feet up in the basin below the Liberty Bell group. By afternoon, it had warmed up enough that the snow down by the road was wet. Quote
Alex Posted October 29, 2001 Author Posted October 29, 2001 Phil you dog! A friend talked me out of going up there, "the coverage sounds really thin" and I went to Muir instead on Sunday. While the weather Sunday was stellar, the snow was only good above 9000. The rest of the way down was breakable crust and soft wierd stuff with more breakable. I think it rained up there Fri/Sat, and then froze Sat night... Alex Quote
mikeadam Posted October 29, 2001 Posted October 29, 2001 Phil that sounds really sweet. Feels like winter out there for sure. Alex sorry I missed you, but there were so may folks out there who could have known? Skied Panorama Point on Friday in heavy crud, but there is snow all the way to Parking lot and beyond. Wind was blowing from about 5800 feet onwards and gusting up to 70MPH as low down as 7000. Above 8500 was a sustained ground blizzard. ROWDY! Sunday skinned to Muir with the masses. Conditions were variable, transitioning from 'dust on frozen crust' to 'trap crust' to 'ice and sastrugi' and then in reverse on the way down. Top 2000 were great and then the 2000+ft of trap crust gradually made me wish for a trash bag to slide the rest of the way down on. Weather was good, but a nice cloud layer was coming in on our way out. Mike P.S. Did anyone check out the Honda nosedived over the snowbank at the first icy curve. YowZa! [ 10-29-2001: Message edited by: mikeadam ] Quote
Beck Posted October 29, 2001 Posted October 29, 2001 We skiied the shady slopes of Mazama Ridge and got great, short 35 degree runs in NICE FLUFFY Powder- hella fine for October- When that Honda when over the bank there I bet the driver just about shat 'is pants! It sure was blindingly nice weather yesterday,eh? Quote
nolanr Posted October 30, 2001 Posted October 30, 2001 Knee deep snow in Royal Basin (Olympics) on Sat., a little bit all the way down to the trailhead and lower, probably about 2000.' It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas... Quote
Wired_Knut Posted October 30, 2001 Posted October 30, 2001 STOP! You're killing me. I'm wish'in I was not leaving for Red Rocks Friday. Whoa, easy there big fella. Season is just getting started. Wait till those big old rocks get buried, you remember last December now don't cha. Quote
gregm Posted October 30, 2001 Posted October 30, 2001 skied green mountain off suiattle road saturday. we dug a pit near the top (~6500) and hadn't hit bottom at 7 feet (well consolidated). skiing sucked because it was 2 inches off fresh on top off breakable crust. lower down we skied 5 inches of fresh/slush on top of grass and shrubbery, which was actually a lot of fun. Quote
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