Gary_Yngve Posted November 23, 2004 Share Posted November 23, 2004 Climb: Rock Mountain- Date of Climb: 11/20/2004 Trip Report: Chris Cass, Ryan Forsyth, and myself headed to Rock Mountain, hoping that the name wouldn't be any indication of the snow. We hiked up in our tennies for the first 2000 feet and then put the skiis on. Two thousand feet later, we were at the top. There were a few rocks at the very top that I discovered, but otherwise good coverage. The snow was good -- what we call Cascades "powder" -- which made for slow lazy turns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klenke Posted November 23, 2004 Share Posted November 23, 2004 How long to get to the top? What did the rest of the traverse over to Mt. Howard look like? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlpineK Posted November 23, 2004 Share Posted November 23, 2004 How far down did you ski after the summit bowl? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary_Yngve Posted November 23, 2004 Author Share Posted November 23, 2004 Klenke, we took a leisurely four hours to get to the top. I don't have a picture or a recollection of what the traverse to Mt. Howard looked like. Kurt, from the summit, there was about 1500 vert of good skiing. We skiied a little further along the trail until it became too narrow and too many rocks. The area looks like it would be way fun with greater snow coverage, though obviously one would have to be more wary of the avy conditions. We skiied the leeward slopes, which had about 1-2 feet of new stuff bonded well to the Oct crust. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelawgoddess Posted November 23, 2004 Share Posted November 23, 2004 looks like good times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelawgoddess Posted November 30, 2004 Share Posted November 30, 2004 markws and i went up there on sunday afternoon. had to hike quite a ways before we could throw skins on. saw the biggest most sparkly surface hoar i'd ever seen. skinned up to the ridge before the last push would have occurred. passed snowboarder+dog and two skiers on their way down. didn't summit due to a rather late start and impending darkness. made a short ski back down in some concrete-like crusty snow. UGH ... but it sure was pretty. skied trail back to where it turns to dirt and hiked down into darkness. it wasn't thousands of feet of spine-tingling pow, but it was good anyway - definitely nice to get back on the white stuff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary_Yngve Posted November 30, 2004 Author Share Posted November 30, 2004 Ryan got a great pic of me lazing around up there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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