[TR] Table Mountain - Ski area-Austin Pass-Artist Point-Table Mt 11/5/2011

[Jason4]

Trip: Table Mountain - Ski area-Austin Pass-Artist Point-Table Mt

 

Date: 11/5/2011

 

Trip Report:

Due to a long day Friday and big plans for Sunday I got a late start on Saturday but still made a good time out of it. We left Bellingham at 11, made a quick stop to drop off some goods for the NWAC benefit at Chair 9 in Glacier and got to the parking lot around 1pm.

 

We made quick work of the hike up to the face of table and played around with some short and sweet turns in the new snow there but it was still pretty shallow. When we left we decided to follow some other tracks on the traverse past the buttress and into Bagley bowl. That was a bad idea. The first chute that we passed was looking pretty sharky so we went to the next one which didn't look much better. The third chute over looked more committed so we decided to make the best of the second chute. There was about a 40 foot rock band across the entire chute and thin snow below it. Two of our group downclimbed through the rocks and two of us pointed it and ran it out. We all clipped a handful of rocks below that on the ride to the lake but I worked my way left and got onto the tracked out and left over snow field where a lot of the spring avalanches settle out. The snow in there was good but short, low angle, and tracked.

 

We traversed around the west side of Bagley Lake, up passed the interpretive center and out to Terminal lake. The snow on the road was fast enough to coast all the way out to the parking lot easily.

 

Pictures to come after work.

 

Gear Notes:

Splitboard and snowboard boots

 

Approach Notes:

Enough snow for skinning the entire way

[Jason4]

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