slothrop Posted December 14, 2005 Posted December 14, 2005 (edited) The obvious gully on the NW shoulder of Guye Peak was in decent shape this past Sunday. Three steps of thick-enough ice with heinous wallowing (even w/snowshoes!) above and below. Bring shorter screws and a baby angle. There are a couple small pillars on the left gully wall, too. You might still be able to use our tracks Nice pillar at the end of the technical part The obvious gully Edited December 14, 2005 by slothrop Quote
Alex Posted December 14, 2005 Posted December 14, 2005 The obvious gully on the NW shoulder of Guye Peak Thats known as the "NW Ice Couloir". We thought about putting it in the book, but since its usually/mostly a short snow route, we didnt. Looks like its in fun shape right now. Quote
Stuart Posted December 16, 2005 Posted December 16, 2005 For people thinking of doing this, stick to the tracks as they are solid. Cheers for the hard work guys. The route is good fun, but at least one of the pillars from the left wall has fallen into the gulley. You'll see it when you get up to it. And it has a nice tree move to finish! Quote
TrogdortheBurninator Posted December 16, 2005 Posted December 16, 2005 Alpental falls is climbable through the step. The snow down low was kind of rotten/snowy on the surface low angle stuff. The upper step had some running water behind it, making things a little bit spicier. What might be the Alpental Strasse Pillar in the book was looking really fat from the road. The north facing stuff in general looked really good. Quote
robert Posted December 18, 2005 Posted December 18, 2005 Plenty of good ice to be had at Alpental on Saturday. This looked like a pretty interesting line with a great finish. Full Size The start is on the left as the right is a thin shell with water flowing beneath. Not sure about the center section, but the top looked great. Very little snow on Chair Peak, but some interesting looking drips around the south shoulder and Bryant. Quote
Alex Posted December 18, 2005 Posted December 18, 2005 This looked like a pretty interesting line with a great finish... Thats Chockstone, its in the book.... Alex Quote
fenderfour Posted December 19, 2005 Posted December 19, 2005 Alpental falls is climbable through the step. The snow down low was kind of rotten/snowy on the surface low angle stuff. The upper step had some running water behind it, making things a little bit spicier. What might be the Alpental Strasse Pillar in the book was looking really fat from the road. The north facing stuff in general looked really good. We took the line up the middle on Saturday. There was a lot of water running behind it, but the ice was plastic and took picks and points well. Protection was mostly stubbies with a couple of 13's. Quote
rat Posted December 19, 2005 Posted December 19, 2005 north side of mt. snoqualmie was bare bones on saturday...shoulda known better. Quote
layton Posted December 20, 2005 Posted December 20, 2005 north side of mt. snoqualmie was bare bones on saturday...shoulda known better. sorry dude! better that, then going to you know where and getting fucked by yon stormy storm. Quote
selkirk Posted December 28, 2005 Posted December 28, 2005 Any new word or has it all gone to shit? Quote
Weekend_Climberz Posted December 28, 2005 Posted December 28, 2005 I'm probably going to be heading up in the area over the weekend and will post information on what I see. Good news is that it has been consistentantly below freezing since early Christmas morning with the temps not rising above 31 degrees in the past few days. Now, of course this if from the 5400' station on the top of Alpental. It has been hovering right around freezing since monday evening lower down, so I'm sure things have been melting out. Quote
glm Posted December 28, 2005 Posted December 28, 2005 Any new news on Alpental conditions since the latest round of snow? Quote
slothrop Posted December 28, 2005 Posted December 28, 2005 http://www.turns-all-year.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=skiarea;action=display;num=1135642122 Quote
fenderfour Posted December 29, 2005 Posted December 29, 2005 Nothing is "in". We toured the Source Lake Basin looking for some ice. Alpental Falls was completely melted out. The smears along the summer Source Lake trail were out as well. We headed back in the Winter trail and all that ice is non-climable. There were a couple of areas on the left of the winter trail as you are headed in ot Source Lake that could get some ice if we had a few days of cold. The only climable ice we saw was along I-90 West. Even it looked rotten and thin. Sorry for the bad news y'all. Lots of heavy powder up there. Skiing on the two open runs at Alpental must be pretty good right now. Quote
slothrop Posted December 30, 2005 Posted December 30, 2005 Lots of heavy powder up there. Skiing on the two open runs at Alpental must be pretty good right now. Yes, yes it was. Buttery. Quote
MCash Posted January 5, 2006 Posted January 5, 2006 Any update on alpine conditions? Any recent photos of Chair, the North Face of Snoqualmie, or Guye? Quote
Nick Posted January 9, 2006 Posted January 9, 2006 No ice to speak of up to 5000 feet on the west side of Snoqualmie Mt. on Sunday Jan. 8, 2006. Snow was mostly well consolidated up to 5000 feet. There was a thin layer of damp new snow on top of heavy breakable crust on top of older powder. There was lumpy avalanche debris snow in just about of all of the avalanche glades; it looks like everything slid last week. On the lee side (north exposure) of the "valley" below Cave Ridge at 5000 feet there started to be a significant (10 inches or more) top layer of powder and temps were cold enough to be preserving the pow at 5000 feet. Quote
pup_on_the_mountain Posted January 23, 2006 Posted January 23, 2006 A buddy of mine and I tried approaching Chair Peak today (had ideas of trying the NE Butt or NF). Tons of soft snow low down. We were breaking trail pretty much from the parking lot. After struggling for about 2.5 hours, we gained a paltry 700 ft of elevation . I wish I had the extenders for my MSR Denali snowshoes. As such, I was sinking till my knees most of the time, even when I tried following the snowshoe tracks of my friend. We gave up promptly, and settled for a morning beer before driving back home. The snow was deep and soft, but at least I was sinking till my waist regularly . Driving your car for eight hours and taking your gear for a couple of hours of snowswim could only be classified as stupid alpine training . PS: It was not snowing much at all when we were there. The snow did not show any signs of instability either (as far as we went). So, maybe some brave soul could use our tracks to lighten their workload tomorrow. Quote
kurthicks Posted January 24, 2006 Posted January 24, 2006 The snow was deep and soft, but at least I was sinking till my waist regularly . have you been taking complaining lessons from Heinrich or Juan recently? I may be old, but at least I never stop complaining about it - Juan during our Stuart Glacier trip Quote
pup_on_the_mountain Posted January 24, 2006 Posted January 24, 2006 That was indeed my try at a 'Heinrich double-whine line' as I've heard from you . Quote
DPS Posted January 24, 2006 Posted January 24, 2006 Yeah well, I may be getting fat, but at least I'm going bald. Quote
John Frieh Posted February 3, 2006 Author Posted February 3, 2006 Who's headed in soon? Late this weekend? Early next week? Quote
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