[TR] Snoqualmie Mountain - Phantom Slide 11/28/2010

[AlpineK]

Trip: Snoqualmie Mountain - Phantom Slide

 

Date: 11/28/2010

 

Trip Report:

Early season skiing can be exciting. With a limited base and almost no consolidation chances of skiing a sick line are low. Logs and rocks hide just below the top too.

 

Jeff H and I decided to ski up the Phantom Slide on Snoqualmie Mountain with low expectations. Of course we kept talking about skiing the Slot

 

The waterfall didn't look, "in."

 

Navigating around the waterfall cliffs was exciting, and so was most of the lower uptrack.

 

The clouds moved in and out on the way up. We got nice views of new snow.

 

Alpental

 

Jeff

 

Upper ridgecrest

 

Summit tower

 

Sure enough the Slot didn't look like it had enough snow

 

On the other hand there was nice snow facing south

 

I did hook my pole on a log and break it early on, but the skiing was nice on the upper slope.

 

The rest of the Phantom was kind of a jungle adventure, but a low snow pack can do that.

 

It won't take much more snow to fill things in.

 

Approach Notes:

Go well to climbers left of the waterfall.

[Pete_H]

Nice. Thanks for the conditions update Kurt.

 

 

[trumpetsailor]

Thanks for saving us the trip! !

[AlpineK]

As long as you kept expectations low it was fun post Thanksgiving exercise. I was curious what the snowpack looked like too.

[mountainsloth]

That makes me feel better. I was supposed to head out that way on Saturday but caught a cold and bailed on a good friend last minute. cheers!

[Jens]

Hat's off to you guys for some hard work skinning. I was touring up their last week and breaking trail was a bear to say the least...... It surely kicked my butt and I didn't anywhere nearly as high as you guys.

 

 

[Serenity]

Looks like the snow will be piling up now. Good report Feck - thanks.

[cman]

Nice work. Is that one of your new poles you broke?

[AlpineK]

Nope, an old one. Now I really need a new set