danhelmstadter Posted February 2, 2010 Posted February 2, 2010 Trip: Mt. Ruth - north slopes + dog avi Date: 2/1/2010 Trip Report: I booted most of the 6 mile slog to Ruth, wich seemed like the optimal method of travel to more easily overcome the many creeks, and huge avi debris piles. It was quite pleasant to start skinning on the last mile. My dog Sadie broke out from the safety of my motorhome where I had left her, she caught up with me several miles up the trail. I was not too stoked to see her, even though she loves the exercise, the mountain wilderness is full of danger for hyper little doggies... The north slopes of Ruth were looking nice. Sadie enjoys my skintrack. But she took the lead towrds the top. She was not to comfortable on the summit. Visibility deteriorated rapidly around the time I made the summit. Ski conditions were shallow windbuffed pow. I experimented with some new camera angles that didn't work out, So much of the descent is left out of this video, but I still got some action, includeing me triggering a shallow soft slab, which Sadie got caught in, she struggled out of it with little effort. I was never worried, even though I noticed obvious signs of instability, they were confined to the few inches of surface snow, and the runout was gradual and clean. The slab was only 3 or 4 inches deep, but did propagate pretty much the entire start zone of the convezity. It slid on the crusty older snow. I would say that shallow soft slabs are currently LIKELY to be triggered by skiers on STEEP, LEE start zones at upper elavations, in the 542 area. [video:youtube] Quote
jordansahls Posted February 2, 2010 Posted February 2, 2010 Awesome video! Looks like Sadie had a hell of a time, despite getting side swiped by a little bit of snow. Quote
Stefan Posted February 3, 2010 Posted February 3, 2010 awewsome vid. I love the dog jumping in and out of the shot! Quote
cbcbd Posted February 3, 2010 Posted February 3, 2010 awewsome vid. I love the dog jumping in and out of the shot! big ditto Quote
Pilchuck71 Posted February 3, 2010 Posted February 3, 2010 Looks good! Thanks for sharing. And more kudos to Sadie! Quote
jonesy Posted February 24, 2010 Posted February 24, 2010 anyone know the road and route conditions of ruth right now? Quote
E-rock Posted February 25, 2010 Posted February 25, 2010 I heart cascade climbers. If this had been posted on telemarktwats we would have had 10 pages already of posts arguing about how irresponsible it was for Dan to bring Sadie a long. What a kick-ass dog. Quote
i_like_sun Posted February 26, 2010 Posted February 26, 2010 Way to keep hunting it Dan!!! You're killing it man! Quote
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