ivan Posted December 12, 2005 Posted December 12, 2005 anyone got any pictures/reports from this area recently? boston basin/joburg? any idea how far up the road you can drive? Quote
ivan Posted December 13, 2005 Author Posted December 13, 2005 so no one of dishere board's been up there in the past month? Quote
letsroll Posted December 20, 2005 Posted December 20, 2005 check out turns-all-year.com. There as a trip report to Sahale. Quote
ivan Posted December 20, 2005 Author Posted December 20, 2005 joburg was mght breezy the past few days... Quote
pu Posted December 20, 2005 Posted December 20, 2005 So I am not familiar with Jberg. What aspect is the face in the picture? Quote
ivan Posted December 20, 2005 Author Posted December 20, 2005 the ne face/buttress - clmbed half wth oleg the other day - got halfway up when hgh wnd and nasty mpendng weather compelled gong home for xmas chores the retreat down the buttress was ndeed exctng! Â road up to mle 20 - not much snow at the pass - the cj glacer loos fawng dsgustng Quote
OlegV Posted December 20, 2005 Posted December 20, 2005 Big J kicked our butts. Discover the beauty of vertical bushwhacking in winter! Quote
layton Posted December 21, 2005 Posted December 21, 2005 vertical bushwacking? did you try climbing the ICE? Quote
ivan Posted December 21, 2005 Author Posted December 21, 2005 there was ice climbing to be sure - but plenty of brush to pull on in between! most of the ice we encountered was thin and it was generally a lot faster to climb aroudn it - we were following the straitest line to put us on the buttress itself - the bigger ice flows are off left and didn't tae us anywhere we really wanted to go. oh yeah i'm a big pussy leading on steep ice too. Quote
EWolfe Posted January 15, 2006 Posted January 15, 2006 Baker: this storm cycle has been extremely unusual. We have received approximately 112 inches of total snowfall in a very short amount of time--with most of this amount of snow falling on Friday at a warm 33 degrees. This is more snow in such a short time than has been measured in our recorded history at Mt. Baker. Also, the cooling trend that was expected to happen Friday and yesterday to help stabilize the snow pack in the ski area has just started to happen in the past few hours. Â Therefore, we are going to wait to reopen the ski area until after the forecasted rain event of Monday and Monday night comes in. On Monday, the freezing level is expected to rise to 5500 to 6000 feet with precipitation, which we are now waiting for as we expect this will help stabilize the snow pack. Quote
Alasdair Posted January 16, 2006 Posted January 16, 2006 Anyone with updates? Â Dude? Updates? There is lots of snow. There is lots and lots of snow. What exactly do you want to know? Quote
ivan Posted January 16, 2006 Author Posted January 16, 2006 to confirm that there's lots of snow (and earn our super-slogger merit badge) josh n' i tried humping it up to snowking in the midst of the pouring rain friday - what started in rain turned to snow and rain soaked brush then light snow over crazy steep forest to stupid deep uber-unconsolidated powder at which time our rate of progress slowed to about 200 yards an hour, at which time we began the camp out blaza-athon - simply put, there is a fucking crazy amount of deep, wet, hate-fuck snow above 4000 feet that makes travel of any sort amazingly difficult. there is fun to be had though if you bring it w/ you! Quote
plexus Posted January 16, 2006 Posted January 16, 2006 Hey Ivan. From your ambiguous post are we to take it that there is a fairly deep, yet unconsolidated snowpack off of the Cascade River? Quote
ivan Posted January 16, 2006 Author Posted January 16, 2006 either that or i have a compulsive potty mouth! Quote
JoshK Posted January 16, 2006 Posted January 16, 2006 I can't imagine the snow higher up right now. As Ivan said, it starts to get really deep relaly quick, esp. as you pass 4k. Combine with what I saw driving over the passes it seems as if we have a normal snowpack winter again...finally! Quote
plexus Posted January 17, 2006 Posted January 17, 2006 So I take it you never made it pass the ever-higher tree slope then? Quote
ivan Posted January 17, 2006 Author Posted January 17, 2006 no, we lost motivation well before then - the forest was right dangerous too - immense snow-bombs! Quote
mattp Posted January 17, 2006 Posted January 17, 2006 At what elevation did you start to encounter a real snowpack? You said it "quickly" became very deep, but was it sparse or bare to 3,000'? Higher? Â I have not been out enough to really know, but it seems we may have a thin snowpack at low elevations. City Light shows less than average overall water stored in watershed This could be a good year for winter ski and climbing access. Quote
ivan Posted January 17, 2006 Author Posted January 17, 2006 it was pouring rain and thus everything was pretty much bare to the ground till a little above 3k - by 4k there was 5-10 feet, depending on terrain Quote
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