scot'teryx Posted May 19, 2003 Posted May 19, 2003 Since I had voluteered to help with a glacier climbing course this weekend, Chuck J and I headed up to Stevens Pass on Friday night, left our stuff outside the Mountaineers Lodge (A friend had the key who was coming later) and started out from the upper lot around 830pm. We reached the top of the Hogsback and then skied down towards the base of Tye and then skinned up to the top of the chair. It was snowing steadily the whole time, and we were happy to find one of the lift towers open where we warmed up and got ready to ski down. We only skied down to the 1/2 way point inbetween upper and lower tye where we dug our snow cave for the remainder of the weekend, cached some gear, and then skied down in the darkness towards the Mountaineers Lodge. We arrived around 130am only to find our friends and a roaring fire. We went to sleep at 2am and awoke at 6am. We then ascended towards camp with the rest of the large group to our camp area. A couple more new inches of fresh snow got us excited, and since we did not have to setup camp, we went back up to the top of Tye and skied down in some great fluffy powder (about 6" fresh, all new tracks). The remainder of the day was spent teaching and instructing. As they began the Z Pulley demonstration, we thought to take another tour before dark and head up to the top of the ridge on Tye and ascend the ridgeline towards Cowboy Mountain, a way I had not gone before, but we thought it might link up towards the top of 7th. We caught a cat track and wound up underneath the large Rock cirque on the peak just west of cowboy where we spotted 3 steep descent lines. 2 couloirs and one treeline couloir. We did not scope out the rock couloir lines enought to see if there was enough coverage so we descended the steep treeline that narrowed out and went at about 55 degress or so. From there we caught the line back towards the bottom of Tye and back to camp and then another quick run down from the top of tye after that. The coverage on the upper mountain was the best I have seen this year! The next morning (430am) we found ourselves guiding out the groups that roped up for simulation, and made our way up the rock garden area towards the top of 7th, and thne the last steeper slopes to the top of Cowboy Mountain. Skinnning the last few hundred feet really sucked as it was 6 inches of fresh on a real icy base, so we were sliding all over the place. Trying to keep our skis on, we had to take them off for the final 15 feet to the summit ridgeline. At that point Chuck fell over while taking his skis off on this steep slope and slid for a good 30 feet before hitting a tree (lucky for him). After waiting for the remainder of the groups to arrive we got to make our descent from the summit ridge back to camp, which was the most enjoyable run I have ever had down off of the 7th chair! Back at camp we packed up and headed down, all in all a great weekend of skiing.......... still wished I would have been at WA Pass though Quote
allthumbs Posted May 20, 2003 Posted May 20, 2003 ring, ring, back to class children, recess is over Quote
AlpineK Posted May 21, 2003 Posted May 21, 2003 Scott If you do something that's actually interesting please post it, but nobody wants to read about your trip to the Stevens Pass Ski Area. Quote
allthumbs Posted May 21, 2003 Posted May 21, 2003 No shit Scott, get a clue. I'm trying real hard to appreciate your accomplishments, but you undermine your efforts constantly by posting shit like this last report. This isn't NWHikers.com you know. I suggest you get a whore and have her pop that cherry of yours. Go climb J-Burg and tell us about it if you live. Or better yet, hook up with Glaskowkiss for some mentoring. Your pal, trask Quote
ExtremoMtDude Posted May 21, 2003 Posted May 21, 2003 OK, seriously lay off the guy. Some of us are committed to skiing almost year round. I enjoy climbing as much as the next guy, but even in the "off season" i always have the gnar on my mind. Looks like scott is a fellow believer of the powder hound profecy, don't hate on him, he's just rippin it up when he can. Go back to srpay trask, i'd like to see you rip it up, tool. Quote
David_Parker Posted May 23, 2003 Posted May 23, 2003 (edited) so we descended the steep treeline that narrowed out and went at about 55 degress or so. I think Scott should go ski Triple Couloirs since it is only about 50 deg. max! Edited May 23, 2003 by David_Parker Quote
JoshK Posted May 23, 2003 Posted May 23, 2003 bwaahhaahahh...I didn't catch that. 55 degrees max. I call a fat bullshit on that. People (myself included) have a very hard time distinguishing actual slope angle. In reality, most double black diamonds at ski areas push around 45 if you're lucky. I bet adrenaline at alpental is 50 or 55 maybe, and that's for only 30 feet at best. Aside from maybe 1 or 2 things at crystal, that's the steepest "marked run" I can think of in the state. Quote
mattp Posted May 23, 2003 Posted May 23, 2003 Josh- A standard formula that works fairly well is to take the angle that you perceive the slope to be, cut it in half and add ten degrees. Quote
Cpt.Caveman Posted May 23, 2003 Posted May 23, 2003 AlpineK said: Scott If you do something that's actually interesting please post it, but nobody wants to read about your trip to the Stevens Pass Ski Area. A fucken men. I saw your ass bootin up the slope when I drove by thinking- BORING. It's people like him that make this site as gay as it has become. I'm gonna climb Forbidden in mid may and call it winter. I am going to talk myself up so everybody thinks I am cool. I'm gonna make everything I do sound gruelling and cool. Those fucking approaches are retarded. Have your little gay ass following and make your websites of I LUV MYSELF just so I can still get a laugh. It's like reading a TR on Marymoore playground for instance. Quote
joe_retard Posted May 23, 2003 Posted May 23, 2003 I'm climbing Petunia Peak this weekend, trip report to follow. Joseph P.S. If you don't hear from me by May 27 please call SARS. Quote
scot'teryx Posted May 23, 2003 Author Posted May 23, 2003 (edited) Hey Ray, go stick a cam in your big trap, a 4.5 would work fine, or a good size Big Bro, your such an opinionated ass sometimes..... I am sure that all the women just love you! This has been said so many times before, but if you dont want to read it, then dont freakin read it! Not everyone is harcore and as cool as you are, someday I hope to be 1/8 as cool as you are, since you can still get your shit up stuff. My post was for skiers that might have been interested in the snow conditions, since they were the best conditions that I have encountered all year (just about). Now go climb something really hard, and then spray about it. Edited May 23, 2003 by snoboy Quote
snoboy Posted May 23, 2003 Posted May 23, 2003 (edited) Tone it down in here! Edited May 23, 2003 by snoboy Quote
Cpt.Caveman Posted May 23, 2003 Posted May 23, 2003 scot'teryx said: Hey Ray, go stick a cam in your big trap, a 4.5 would work fine, or a good size Big Bro, your such an opinionated ass sometimes..... I am sure that all the women just love you! This has been said so many times before, but if you dont want to read it, then dont freakin read it! Not everyone is harcore and as cool as you are, someday I hope to be 1/8 as cool as you are, since you can still get your shit up stuff. My post was for skiers that might have been interested in the snow conditions, since they were the best conditions that I have encountered all year (just about). Now go climb something really hard, and then spray about it. Whatever geek. We'll see who's talkin smack in person. Fuckin geek Quote
Stefan Posted May 23, 2003 Posted May 23, 2003 Hands up to Scott on his first post. He posted something about skiing in the "freshiezone" adding to the quality of the website. On the other hand, people spray his report. If you don't like his reports, why do you "sprayers" respond and give his posts attention if you are annoyed by it so much? What makes a quality trip report worthy of this site? Quote
dalius Posted May 23, 2003 Posted May 23, 2003 Dude, everybody knows that the only quality trip reports on this site are those of the __-th ascent of Triple Couloirs! Every freakin' monday there are several more TRs and pics of the same damn route, over and over again. Can't wait to sees 10 more this Monday! Dude! I climbed TC! I'm so fucking bad ass! Look at me! Look at me! Quote
chucK Posted May 23, 2003 Posted May 23, 2003 Reports that give conditions, beta, recommendations, warnings, pictures, insights into the "mind of the climber", tales of funny or strange occurrences, celebrity cascadeclimber sightings, and/or anything that at least disguises the "I did it", are welcome by me. Hell, this site is such a f'n soap opera (and resource for climbing partners), that I'm even interested in reading unabashed "I did it"'s. Quote
Cpt.Caveman Posted May 23, 2003 Posted May 23, 2003 Stefan said: Hands up to Scott on his first post. He posted something about skiing in the "freshiezone" adding to the quality of the website. On the other hand, people spray his report. If you don't like his reports, why do you "sprayers" respond and give his posts attention if you are annoyed by it so much? What makes a quality trip report worthy of this site? Yeah what fucking quality is that? I'm not saying he can or should not post but fuck he makes himself out to be some sort of hot shit bad ass. TC is now like Chair Peak. It's what happens when knowledge increases. Quote
erik Posted May 23, 2003 Posted May 23, 2003 i find it very laughable how someone as tough and bad ass as ray, is threatend so much by scott that he has to constantly attempt to belittle him. Quote
Cpt.Caveman Posted May 23, 2003 Posted May 23, 2003 erik said: i find it very laughable how someone as tough and bad ass as ray, is threatend so much by scott that he has to constantly attempt to belittle him. Erik I just see you as the biggest fuckin loser here. Go fucking smoke some crack or use some drugs. Your mind is still wasted like soup. Fucking burnout. Do you still hump a dogs leg since you cant get no ass Quote
snoboy Posted May 23, 2003 Posted May 23, 2003 (edited) Cut the spray, or the thread will be locked. Thanks. I dunno what's happening with your post trask??? I saw it, but then I can't read it any more. Thanks for the suggestion though. Edited May 23, 2003 by snoboy Quote
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