philfort Posted March 2, 2003 Share Posted March 2, 2003 Not bad - 6 inches or so of dry powder on firmish windcrust. Snowpack is thin here - about 4 feet at the lower base area (website says almost 10 feet at Heather Meadows - hmmm). We intended to ski the White Salmon glacier, but stopped about 1000ft from the top due to deteriorating snow condtions (variable/powder/crusty) and thin coverage (crevasses not covered too well). What an awesome run it would be in better conditions Better skiing was found below 5000ft - nice dry, but not deep, powder. Approach to upper White Salmon creek took about 1h15m, but is annoying due to thin snowpack and too many stream gullies. Also tree wells seem to be larger and more numerous here than anywhere else Slopes below 4000ft getting direct sun got crusty. No avalanche activity noted, except for 30 second loud noise coming from icefall on Hanging Glacier, while we were in deep forest on the deproach and couldn't see anything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski_photomatt Posted March 4, 2003 Share Posted March 4, 2003 Did you stop 1000ft from the top of the White Salmon Gl or from the top of Shuksan? I'm wondering how Hell's Highway looked. The White Salmon looks like one of the better day tours in the area, or an overnight with a bivy high on the mountain and time for exploration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philfort Posted March 4, 2003 Author Share Posted March 4, 2003 1000ft from the top of the White Salmon (after I punched through into a hidden slot), so we never saw Hell's Highway. The bottom part of the NW couloir (I think?) looked like a sweet run! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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