AlpineK Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Trip: Snoqualmie Pass - Snoqulmie Peak Phantom Slide and Red Mountain Date: 1/16/2009 Trip Report: Here's a quick report on the conditions around Snoqualmie Pass. The funky January weather resulted in corn skiing. Temperatures at the pass were cold, but up high the inversion kicked in for t-shirt weather. On Friday the 16th two friends and I skied the Phantom Slide opposite Alpental Ski Area. Snow then rain led to a trick ascent and descent of the waterfall area. Up above the waterfall the slopes had nice corn skiing. As we gained altitude the warm weather kicked in to high gear leaving the snow thick and mushy. Right now skiing and lapping the lower 2000 feet seems like the thing to do. On Sunday the 18th two different friends and I skied Red Mountain. On this day low clowds lead to an ascent with little visibility, but when we reached the main slope the mist opened up and nice corn snow covered the mountain. As we got close to the summit the wind kicked into gear. Winds were gusting at about 40 mph. Just short of the summit we gave up climbing and locked down our heals. Kendall from our high point. Skiing down was nice. Lots of corn was the order of the day again. You had to do some route navigation to avoid old avalanche chunks, but it wasn't a huge issue. Base of the face with mist just above. From here a lot of navigation got us to the car. There are way too many slowshoe on the lower trail Gear Notes: You know skis, boots... If you've never been there a GPS might be nice. Approach Notes: We went off of old memories for the route up Red Mountain. That worked out with a couple unnecessary jogs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cman Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 the weather was pretty crazy. Here are a few more pics from Red Feck gettin' some it was nice where the snow was smooth crazy inversion, down in the fog it was cold Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyHarry Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Feck - I must have just missed you guys. I was booting up Red as your party (probably) was coming down. Snow up high was decent. Commonwealth fucking sucked though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlpineK Posted January 20, 2009 Author Share Posted January 20, 2009 Yeah you must have. There was a group in front of us then folks after us (you?). The snow on Red was fine, but the lower snow got us back to the car. The lower stuff wasn't anything great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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