dylan_taylor Posted February 16, 2006 Posted February 16, 2006 Climb: Mt Baker-Coleman Glacier Date of Climb: 2/15/2006 Trip Report: We had a nice ski tour yesterday. We skied from the Coleman-demming saddle. Back in town for late afternoon snacks. There was 3-5 inches of incredibly light wind-blown snow, and some graupel chunks to give it all a nice texture. Just under the light fluff was a layer of boilerplate, so you could carve high speed turns and kick up rooster tails of smoke and look like a rockstar, all while you are really thinking you are going to catch an edge and blow out an ACL seven miles from the car. It was COLD yesterday. It was fine, skinning up through the trees. But then when we got to the glacier, it felt like the instant arctic blast. I didn't take a thermometer, but my know my nose hairs start freezing at about +5 F. It was so cold that my skis wouldn't slide at the saddle - wrong wax temp. I had to double-pole it for a few hundred feet till the snowtemp warmed. No pics, i took slides. Gear Notes: should have had a facemask Approach Notes: 4wd + high speed quads. Quote
ashw_justin Posted February 16, 2006 Posted February 16, 2006 How far could you drive up the road? Past the windy section and the creek? Quote
Dru Posted February 17, 2006 Posted February 17, 2006 There is a huge fucking snow plume streaming off Baker right now, it must be 2km long. Quote
dylan_taylor Posted February 17, 2006 Author Posted February 17, 2006 There go the freshies... Maybe the snow will get blown all the way to bham. Boilerplate and man-eating sastrugi waves from now till the end of next week... Quote
RocNoggin Posted February 18, 2006 Posted February 18, 2006 check the forecast, snow by Tuesday! :-) Quote
dylan_taylor Posted February 18, 2006 Author Posted February 18, 2006 2 inches! and only a 20% chance of that... Quote
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