troubleski Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 just tell be where to be and I'll be there with beers on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisa Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 My first choice would be Baker. From the overnight prking lot, we could easily drag the keg down hill into the lake basin. Steep turns in every direction, multiple slope aspects provide opportunities should the avy danger be high, and there is always powder!! Â The problem is the distance away. We may have a better attendance if it's somewhere like hwy 2, or, Crystal bc. Shasta loves the snow, I can't leave her home. Â I would be up for New Years, but for those that can't make it then, we should have one in Feb. I guess the date we can figure out later once the snow begins to fall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billygoat Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 Hey Lisa, would this be Baker ski area below Table mountain and Artist Point? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toast Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 quote: Originally posted by Billygoat: Hey Lisa, would this be Baker ski area below Table mountain and Artist Point? Didn't all the walls around that bowl drop last year in one HUGE avvy last spring? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billygoat Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 Not that I know of. From what I have experienced, you can never fully trust any slope no matter how many pits you dig. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billygoat Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 I have skied in that basin quite a few times and enjoyed it. It is a fun and easy tour out to the permanent snofields around Coleman Pinnacle for views, variation and less concave slopes. I have always wanted to approach Komo Kulshan that way. Anyhow, Plenty of parking at Heather Meadows, lots of squid tho. I don't know about camping in a big group, supposedly no camping allowed. We usually come in late and lay low. I wonder if Lisa is refering to the lot by the Equipment sheds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
COL._Von_Spanker Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 Baker area=Lots of Avi's. Even inbounds sometimes, though I guess you just hear about it more since gumbys are always getting buried. Â There is also ice climbing at baker, and the shuksan arm can be pretty sweet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattp Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 The Baker area is also the snowiest place around and fresh snow may be great for skiing but deep snow or falling snow are not so great for sitting around socializing with the alpine buddy. It has easily accessed "backcountry," though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpt.Caveman Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 Forget the beer pig. Just haul back a big bag of Greenpeace. Way lighter anyways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattp Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 But Cavey, an ongoing storm will also limit your ability to share the green with your friends, too -- unless you have a circus tent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpt.Caveman Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 Just put up a tarp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allthumbs Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 How's this? Â ... I've been spanked it won't take my picture. "But honest, mom, it's not a fat chick." Â [ 10-23-2002, 11:00 AM: Message edited by: trask ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billygoat Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 For early season clean skiing, the area around the Pinnacle is superb (short yo-yos tho) and the cravasses are few and small. Have never tried the arm but would love to. Has anyone gone down to White Salmon creek and up over the ridge to the Price Glacier. I tried to last spring but the route I took was too burly with lots of tree wacking and lots of fresh bear sign. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisa Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 Yes, I am talking about the upper lot by the equipment sheds. Blueberry shutes below Table are a favorite of mine. There is also the saddle to chain lakes, East of the saddle there is a great bowl on the other side of the peak, I forget the name. Â I know there has been many slides off Shuksan arm which folks have died in. Since the new requirements of safety gear when entering the arm from the ski area have been put in place, there has been no deaths. I am not saying that particular area is any safer. The bc area I am referring to is around Table and Chain Lakes. I have taught avy classes in that area and have skied all over, when the NE faces are unstable, you can hit the SW or, NW slopes, vise versa. Â A large slide in Spring is not uncommon on any south facing aspect. Spring is just as much an unstable time as Winter can be. Should the weekend we go be highly unstable we can tree ski,(bumper trees) or re-schedule. I vote we have a Winter outing for powder enthusiasts and a Spring one for the celebration of Spring...yea thats it! Â Ok jon, where are some skiing graemlins?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billygoat Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 Even tho powder skiing is the shit, spring skiing is my favorite. Especially over hwy 20. Lots of easily accessible terrain, fewer squids off the road, great dry camping, wonderful peaks and next time, I am going to try some of Dr. Ruthless's routes down the road. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattp Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 quote: Originally posted by Billygoat: Has anyone gone down to White Salmon creek and up over the ridge to the Price Glacier. I have been both skiing and climbing back there. It is easy to get to the ridge below the North Face, overlooking Price Lake, but the drop to the lake or the traverse to the glacier, is very steep--probably as steep as the North Face itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beck Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 At last nights' pub club, some good options were raised about a ski party- A great suggestion was a spring highway 20 party down on the east side, sounds like the camping/parking/skiing are going to be right there, also the weather/daylight would be in our greater favor. I'm still down with coming togther for some BC ski parties this winter, New Years' Eve or therabouts at Threeway Peak by Crystal, or SmithBrook road- the Baker option sounds problematic, with official "no camping" type of BS- methinks we would want a big raging fire weekend type of partying thing, with skis on! But I'll still haul the keg anywhere you want it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattp Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 Another option would be to have a party at someone's house. A let's-get-excited kind of event with slides and such. Dave could show some pictures of his real cool hideaway in Smith Brook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpt.Caveman Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 I beleive it is Smithbrook one word  Either way if someone wants to show slides I wanna check em out. Slide party then skiing the next morning Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David_Parker Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 quote: Originally posted by Beck: At last nights' pub club, some good options were raised about a ski party- A great suggestion was a spring highway 20 party down on the east side, sounds like the camping/parking/skiing are going to be right there, also the weather/daylight would be in our greater favor. I got that one totally covered. Cabin in Mazama, 3 double beds, big deck and lots of room for tents. Outhouse too. It helps if the snow is gone on the valley floor though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave_Schuldt Posted October 23, 2002 Author Share Posted October 23, 2002 Name the date, D. P. and we will be there. Maybe Presidents day weekend? Mazama is a 6 hour drive when HWY 20 is closed and the roads are good. I don't mind camping in the snow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David_Parker Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 quote: Originally posted by Dave Schuldt: Name the date, D. P. and we will be there. Maybe Presidents day weekend? Mazama is a 6 hour drive when HWY 20 is closed and the roads are good. I don't mind camping in the snow. When the road opens in the spring, unless we get a couple snowmobiles to drag our asses up the road from that side. Then I'd consider mid-winter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattp Posted October 24, 2002 Share Posted October 24, 2002 DP is right. Mazama is best for a Spring trip. I've been there in the winter, and if you don't have a snowmobile, it is a long way to anywhere from there. The highway usually opens sometime late April or early May, and this is supposed to be a low snow year. Â At that time of year, revellers would have their choice between skiing and rock climbing. Â Hey Dave - How's come you're ready to drive 6 hours to Mazama, but 5 hours to Pemberton is too far? You got something against Canada? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David_Parker Posted October 24, 2002 Share Posted October 24, 2002 quote: Originally posted by mattp: Hey Dave - How's come you're ready to drive 6 hours to Mazama, but 5 hours to Pemberton is too far? You got something against Canada? I'm not usually willing to do the Mazama thing in winter (6 hrs), but if you make it to Pemberton in 5, you must have some kind of sports car and guaranteed clear roads! Canada ROCKS for skiing and ice climbing and beer and chicks and sea kayaking and smoking the kind and..... Â [ 10-23-2002, 05:08 PM: Message edited by: David Parker ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattp Posted October 24, 2002 Share Posted October 24, 2002 quote: Originally posted by David Parker: if you make it to Pemberton in 5, you must have some kind of sports car and guaranteed clear roads! I've made the trip many times. If you drive at night, it is 4 1/2 hours from Seattle to Pemberton -- driving 5 miles over the speed limit (yes, that assumes decent road conditions, but the Canadians seem to be pretty good at keeping their roads in order). If you go during the daytime, it will take 6. My usual approach is to leave on Friday night and, depending on who is in the party and what the weather is like, sleep out or get a hotel room. On Sunday night, all you have to do is to eat dinner up there, so you are behind the Whistler ski traffic and too late for line-ups at the border, and it is 4 1/2 hours back to Seattle. But I say 5 hours, because the places where I usually ski are 15 or 20 miles up the road from Pemberton. Â I'm telling you -- it IS the promised land. Â Â [ 10-23-2002, 05:25 PM: Message edited by: mattp ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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