[TR] Shuksan - summit pyramid & white salmon 2/9/2010

[danhelmstadter]

Trip: Shuksan - summit pyramid & white salmon

 

Date: 2/9/2010

 

Trip Report:

Left the parking lot around 9, and skinned up the White Salmon under clear skies, the skin track from the previous day had mostly filled in, but conditions were easy enough to bust it back out.

Clouds rolled in as I summited, but they were thin, and visibility was decent enough for the gully descent -- which provided fabulous ski conditions. The clouds blew by as I skiied down to the Curtis.

 

I got the best turns of season on the White Salmon, ripper falline fattys, the pitch being just right -- so that slaying the fallline did not create a highspeed deathsluff.

 

 

the focus on my camera broke -- so it's not as cloudy as it looks

summit shots

 

[Sol]

[pms]

WOW 4 days of something - this last one sounds fun. one question, this Mt. Shuksan ski area - is it anywhere near Baker Ski area?

[danhelmstadter]

the mt baker ski area is actually located on a feature of mt shuksan

[JoeMack]

I really enjoyed your Shuksan Chronicles. Thanks for sharing the stoke.

[i_like_sun]

So up until now I didn't really realize that you can actually summit Shuksan from the ski area in one day! Did you head out from the top of chair 8? And how did you get back?

[danhelmstadter]

dropping down through the clear cut near the bottom of chair 8 into the white salmon valley is the way to go.

[mw888888888]

Dan - found you! Haven't checked CC in a while, so this is a nice treat to see what you've been up to. Man, you are tearing it up.