Doug_Hutchinson Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 With a four day weekend in a few days, can anyone suggest any good ski touring in the North Cascades? What's best on Mt. Baker now, or is anything in around Washington Pass? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enem Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 check out the late oct trip reports at www.turns-all-year.com, couple of trips done around mt baker. personally i found awsome touring conditions around artist point on oct 30. i have not heard of anyone skiing around wa pass yet. they get considerably less snow than west of the crest, and looks like they've lost some: http://www3.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/nwcc/sntl-data0000.jsp?site=711&days=7&state=washington Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
specialed Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 When there gets to be enough snow around WA Pass to ski they close it. WA Pass is more of a spring ski spot. Right now you might check out some of the glaciers accessible from Cascade River Road. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug_Hutchinson Posted November 9, 2004 Author Share Posted November 9, 2004 Good info and links. That "Turns all Year" site is the best one-stop-shopping for telemetry data that I have seen. Nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cracked Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 NO. There is NO good snow anywhere right now. None. A week ago it was truly horrible. Just miserable. Yesterday was shitty as well. That's not corn, it's frozen runnels, breakable crust, and general nastiness. It rained all day long, too. Don't go out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaper_Jeffy Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 Paul, where are the bottom photos from, what elevation? I right-clicked your images to see if I could glean location from your filename but they aren't descriptive enough. BTW, how far is the skiing on Baker from Seattle? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cracked Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 Below Pan Point, so around 7k. We skied to the parking lot on creamy corn, and I hit but two rocks all day. The pow on Baker was a three hour drive, but I'm sure most of it is gone (we had four feet of fresh, but it's been warm). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaper_Jeffy Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 Below Pan Point Hey that's not No WA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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