Heliotrope Ridge Trail Winter route beta needed

[moronbros]

Heliotrope ridge trail is under about 6 feet of snow right now and the snowshoers' tracks we ended up following went in circles. Does anyone have GPS data for that trail? We just need the path from the bathrooms to that first major creek drainage that takes you up to the tree line.

 

All the markers you'd see in the summer are buried, but a GPS output would probably be helpful. i just want to be able to mark where the switchbacks so I don't waste time ascending. Please help!

 

.Bill

[PeterC]

Isn't the road up to Heliotrope under 6' of snow too? How did you get up there, snowmobile? How far a hike is it from where you parked your car?

[moronbros]

We were driving probably the perfect car for the trip - a subaru with great studless snow tires. We rallied straight past the sno-park lot and parked at a pullout about 5 miles up the road. We just skinned up on split boards the last 3 miles. There is a point about at mile 6 where they have a sign that "no wheeled vehicles" should pass. They groom that road every wednesday and snowmobiles use it regularly, so it's totally flat and passable with at least one lane all the way to the bathrooms at the heliotrope trailhead. Some snowshoers drove and parked even higher than us in a 2000 honda civic. go figure.

 

That's one hour skinning up the road to the trailhead and about 10 minutes bombing back down on a split board at 35 mph.

 

Anyhow, that trail would be a snap to find if we could just get a GPS file for it. Many other snowshoers and skiers use it in the Winter but it's always getting covered up and the quickest way to that drainage is the trail no matter how much snow is covering it.

 

I'm also curious as to how may people use GPS when they hike. I've found it really useful for marking things like crevasses, trailheads, cars, rest stops, etc..

[Jaredvg]

The no wheeled vehicle sign is actually at the intersection of FS Road 37 and the 3600 road, which is about 7.5 miles up from the mount baker highway. You would be very hard pressed to get a "wheeled vehicle" there as of right now. The snow on the road changes from approximately 1 foot deep before mile 5 to 6-8 feet deep rapidly after mile 5.

[moronbros]

Nevermind. I wrote a sloppy perl script that parses lat/long out of some guy's google map of this route. booyah.

 

#!/usr/bin/perl

# written by a climber that wouldn't take 'no' for an answer.

print "Stupid GPS converter\n\n";

 

my $file = "helio1.txt";

 

open (IN, $file) || die "can't open '$file': $!";

if ( ! open LOG, ">>gpsout") {

die "Cannot create gpsout: $!";

}

 

my $first_line = ;

while (my $line = ) {

chomp $line;

 

if ($line =~ /\s*points.push\(newGLatLng\((\d*.\d*),\s(-\d{3}.\d*)/) {

print LOG "$2,$1,100 ";

}

}

 

[archenemy]

use strict;

use Test;

BEGIN { plan tests => 13, todo => [3,4] }

 

ok(0); # failure

ok(1); # success

 

ok(0); # ok, expected failure (see todo list, above)

ok(1); # surprise success!

 

ok(0,1); # failure: '0' ne '1'

ok('broke','fixed'); # failure: 'broke' ne 'fixed'

ok('fixed','fixed'); # success: 'fixed' eq 'fixed'

 

ok(sub { 1+1 }, 2); # success: '2' eq '2'

ok(sub { 1+1 }, 3); # failure: '2' ne '3'

ok(0, int(rand(2)); # (just kidding! :-)

 

my @list = (0,0);

ok @list, 3, "\@list=".join(',',@list); #extra diagnostics

ok 'segmentation fault', '/(?i)success/'; #regex match

 

skip($feature_is_missing, ...); #do platform specific test

 

 

Yup, looks ok ;]

[Bigtree]

That seems like a lot of unnecessary work for one of these:

 

 

As per PM, send me your e-mail address where I can send an attachment and I'll be happy to forward the track in whatever format you need.

[Weekend_Climberz]

Nevermind. I wrote a sloppy perl script that parses lat/long out of some guy's google map of this route. booyah.

 

#!/usr/bin/perl

# written by a climber that wouldn't take 'no' for an answer.

print "Stupid GPS converter\n\n";

 

my $file = "helio1.txt";

 

open (IN, $file) || die "can't open '$file': $!";

if ( ! open LOG, ">>gpsout") {

die "Cannot create gpsout: $!";

}

 

my $first_line = ;

while (my $line = ) {

chomp $line;

 

if ($line =~ /\s*points.push\(newGLatLng\((\d*.\d*),\s(-\d{3}.\d*)/) {

print LOG "$2,$1,100 ";

}

}

 

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exec return y s gt sin sort split

[Blake]

I skied in there with billygoat last winter for some touring, and there was a skin track the whole way. Nice slopes and seracing up there, even if you do have to skin up the road a ways from whereever you park.

[Choada_Boy]

Here' a freakish idea: Use a map and a compass.

 

Go up the hill the easy way until you are where you want to be, then, turn around and follow your tracks home. Is that too much to ask, or do you need a hand-held Robby the Robot to tell you when to turn left?

[G-spotter]

Do you have GPS coordinates for "where you want to be"? I can't find it on the map.

[Choada_Boy]

You should be where you want to be. If not, move.