ARob Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 (edited) Headed up to Timberline yesterday. My girlfriend Rachel, myself, and our two dogs started heading toward Illumination Rock. Got about two thirds the way up the Palmer lift, a few hundred yards to climbers left and it was like trying to skin up ice cubes. We decided to call it good. Everything else was good, the weather was amazing, no one was out there, ski patrol didn't give us shit for marching our dogs through the ski terrain. By the way, we saw a decent looking ice fall coming off the south butt of Illumination Rock, but it was precariously crowned with snow that showed evidence of sluffing off in chunks recently. Once we traversed to the east side of the Palmer Lift and skirted the White Glacier, we found the snow more wind loaded and the skiing like butter and wished we had just been on that side the whole time. Oh well. Edited January 16, 2009 by ARob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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