olwilli Posted May 8, 2008 Share Posted May 8, 2008 Trip: Oregon Cascades - South Sister Date: 5/8/2008 Trip Report: Great morning of skiiing today, and left from the nordic center early this morning, skated down and across todd lake, and then skinned around the ridge off broken top till reaching green lakes, and then headed up the mountain and joined the climbers trail and cramponed up about the last 1500-2000 feet! was pretty windy up top, and legs were tired today from a great day at brokentop yesterday enjoying the nice spring corn! summited in about 4 hours from leaving the car, kicked back did the traditional summit dance video:) and skied down into the crater out of the wind to get some good earth tea and pizza! the first bit was all rime ice skiing and then very very firm skiing for 1500 feet or so till the nice corn started till reaching green lakes around 6500 feet?? had i waited longer maybe it would have corned up once i got below the rime ice, but was still pretty cold up there. skinned back out to the nordic center and now nap time. what a beautiful day today though, finally getting the good freezes at night allowing for beautiful corn and fast travel, even coming out it wasn't as soft as it has been this past week. get out and enjoy the nice buttery corn in the oregon cascades! Cheers, Chris "aka the guy in the pink hat!" Gear Notes: kicker skins, regular skins, ice axe (not needed) Approach Notes: From nordic center, down century, across todd lake, and round the ridge of brokentop till summit of south sister! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevbone Posted May 8, 2008 Share Posted May 8, 2008 Sounds super fun. Any pictures to go along with the TR? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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