Frantz, where is that pic?
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Frantz, where is that pic?
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LOVE that pic! Nicely done guys!
Anyway I can get a hi-res version for my desktop background? Email is my name at gmail.com
Looks like a frame grab from his helmet cam, cool shot.
Maybe this song to go with the vid ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vavZ25wM6W0
Rock Creek: road doesn't go to Mosquito Flat. It's about an hour walk from parking to MF and then another 30 min until the skis can come on. I did that thing where one realizes one left one's skins at the hotel an hour into the hike. But Franz reports good conditions although Cats Ears doesn't go (there's a rock in the middle).
So I did TJ Bowl once I recovered my skins. Getting to most stuff on the Crest is kind of a pita these days with lots of off and on skis and lakes in a dubious state of crossability.
Looks like Sonora Pass just opened. Earliest opening in ages. Probably really good up there right now.
http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/roadinfo/clsdlst.htm
on my way to sonora pass,eta 9am, got going later than planned.
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Another one pic TR:
http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty.../northpeak.jpg
Attachment 137068
wowzers!
Let's try this again. Sorry for the delay.
Attachment 137070 Powerhouse
Attachment 137071 Ellery Bowl.
Shots taken 4/22
Franz and AKB throwing down some classics this year!
Personally, I prefer 5 turn shrub elbowing myself .... ;)
Headed down to Mammoth tonight and gonna try for a Dana Couloir -> Ellery bowl day tomorrow. Any beta on the Glacier Canyon approach? Totally melted out scree scramble?
Ellery bowl was pretty bony Tuesday (4/23), and with all the warm weather we've had, I'd be pretty sketched trying that line.
ellery is indeed bony. the canyon below dana has some snow, not much.whatever snow there was was frozen solid at 12 today maybe the wind?
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Did Dana Couloir to Elery today. Dana at 2 pm was firm but edgable. Elery was boney at the very top but otherwise had great corn.
if all you guys are down there you should drop a car and ski powerhouse if you havent already before you cant anymore. seriously
One pic TR:
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...Powerhouse.jpg
Gimpy, we rode Powerhouse today and it was good, but I dunno... it sure seems burlier this year. Seems steeper due to less snow. We ended up doing the diagonal chute into the lookers left chute. Seemed to have the smoothest snow of the options we had when we got there (late), even though it has some pretty serious exposure. On the exit, we took the lookers left drainage that nobody takes, it was great because there was like 1 track in it. Problem is getting out at the bottom where it cliffs out. We had a not-so-fun bushwhack back over the main drainage, but looking at it from the road later I think you could traverse out of it a little higher and actually connect it to the other one w/o unstrapping.
yeah jimmydub!! i actually made that same statement on the previous page. less snow = more steep. lotsa sideslippin in the entrances. whenever you can ski to within a 5-10 min walk to your car, powerhouse is a way better run then ellery imho.
any reports from sonora???
It's very good.
Mike, any beta on Blue canyon or the snow bridge across the upper Stanislaus @ the hairpin?
You can get across the water on the snow. You can ski to and from hairpin on snow all the way.
Perfect, danke schon
Bitte....
fishing the owens... the snow looks thin
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8536/8...84e7d4fd_z.jpg
owens by chadbrownimages, on Flickr