Crater Rock to Highway 35

[barkernews]

I'm thinking of skinning up to Crater Rock and trying to ski down the White River Glacier to Highway 35 tomorrow. Anyone done this that can offer any advice? Is this recommended? Any beta would be great! Thanks!

[kioti]

It's been a few weeks since I skied the white river drainage. It was before we got that puking of snow. At the time, there was a bit of sketchyness crossing the river twice towards the bottom. We entered on the Meadows side of the canyon, but saw tracks over on the T-line side of things. I would assume that there would be enough snow in there by now with the fresh and with the winds blowing down and deposting. If you go, post and fill us in on how it was.

[Winter]

I just got back from a trip up the South Side, and we skied down the upper White River and traversed in down near Silcox.

 

Below that, it looked pretty grim. I'm sure you could pick a way through, but it was looking super dirty with pretty poor coverage. I would suggest skiing the upper, traversing out and then dropping in closer to Timberline for the ski down, or drop in from the Meadows side lower down. Just my .02.

 

All in all the upper mountain looks so so right now. We need more snow. Huge melt outs on West Crater Rim and very little rime. Shit started pouring off the Steel Cliffs at about 8-9 am.

Edited December 14, 2005 by Winter