Skiied the Y on Saturday, dropped in around 11:15. Nice and smooth but a few rocks in the lower portion as well as a runnel on the right side. Suncups below were not too bad. Skiing back to the...

Update: Summited on 05/31 after 19 days on-glacier. Lots of time was spent waiting out weather at 14, much fun skiing around camp was had. Did not ski any of the bigger lines or even take skis to the...

Stoked to ski up there for the first time this weekend. I'd like to hit the Y couloir on Leavitt - is it best to start from the pass or lower down west where the drainage meets the road?

Made it out President's day weekend to test my oversized F1s in the Eastern Sierra. Snow was mostly super deep light pow on day 1 (Lee Vining area) with some more challenging conditions thrown in on...

For Denali I plan to use Vipecs. I was more referring to the possibility of not having to adjust the bindings when switching between boots with only 1mm BSL difference. I've read that Vipecs are not...

Update on the plans here. TLT5s are pretty worn out so I'm not sure I would trust them on this (cuff pivot play, power strap rivets fell out, buckles about to fall off). I picked up one of the new...

So I'm planning a Denali trip with two buddies. We'll be on the west buttress conga line starting Mid-May. Our main goal is to summit, skiing being a secondary goal especially given that we're going...

Thanks for the desolation tips guys. Will report back with conditions and pics!

Planning on heading into Desolation from the echo lake trailhead and spending 2 nights this weekend to beat the crowds and take advantage of the sun. Never camped there in winter before. Any recs on...

Anyone been to Lassen recently? Heading up with some buddies this weekend to practice rope skills and do some skiing. I've been up there a few times but I've always hiked the main peak from the...

In a bit of a bind here - I have a friend in my ski lease who is a lazy fuck, and forgot to get her pass until now. We are switching from Squawpine to the Wood this year and she didn't realize that...

Follow-up from the Squaw pass glitch:



Pretty solid gesture from KSL I guess.

Email from Squaw:


Didn't really expect anything else but it made for an amusing morning yesterday. I was planning on getting the Mountain Collective pass anyway so I'll still get my Squawpine...

Someone at Squaw screwed up and all season passes were $1 on the site for at least an hour this morning, possibly yesterday as well from what I've heard. They just fixed the issue but it'll be...

No suncups at all, it was smooth corn/slush until the snow ended.

The icy wind-hammered snow above 12k skied like frozen suncups, however.

So here's my mini-TR of our Brewer Creek expedition this past weekend. The basic beta is that we had to park quite low on the road, and there was a lot of bushwhacking to get to skinnable snow. Good...

Gonna head up to Shasta tonight and go for the summit on Sunday with two buddies. We're planning on heading to Brewer Creek unless we get some local beta advising otherwise.

Will report back with...

Based on the latest snow depth estimates, I'd say the Brewer Creek route looks doable now, but the climbing advisory and FS road status disagree with each other.

Climbing advisory:


Road...

Saw lots of sled kooks at Mt Rose on Saturday - definitely still enough snow there.

Planning on a Shasta trip next weekend (18th-20th) if the weather is good. Tried the brewer creek route last year over memorial day and much preferred it to Avalanche gulch. Even though we got turned...

Squaw was really fun on Saturday - much less of a shitshow than I was expecting aside from the doofus who went off the road backing up traffic for miles. Got to KT at 9:30 and there was no lift line...

Thanks for the Beta guys. Sounds like Tallac will wait until we get some serious snow at lake level. I'll plan on taking my buddy up to the Rose area instead since it's a lot closer anyway and we...

Squawpine pass was blacked out and was joneseing for a tour so headed up to Carson yesterday. Not too familiar with the area so just headed out to the Round Top area where I've been once before....

+1 for Paul - he's the man. Helped me getting my too-small TLT5s to fit and then when my GF bought boots there he was awesome and super patient.

Alpine was great this morning. Got in line for summit at 8:45 and had an amazing first run when it opened at 9:30. Some serious slide debris around but the lighter snow overnight on top of the...

Trying to decide Squaw or Alpine too. There were tons of slides even down at roundhouse yesterday so they might still have quite a bit of control work still to do on summit. That would be more fun...

Hopefully the storm should be enough to Siberia, Granite, and Shirley open at Squaw - that should hopefully alleviate the crowds at Alpine. Even with 8000ft snow levels initially all that stuff...

I have one pair of TLT5Ps, size 25.5 - same shell as a 25. Bought these in early 2012 and only put 4 days on them. They went to the summit of Shasta but after that I couldn't feel a bunch of my toes...

Last year I skied Lassen on memorial day climbing from the devastated area lot. Didn't see a soul the whole way up until reaching the summit when I ran into all the traffic from the south side. There...

I'd recommend just going to Fifth Season or Shasta Basecamp instead of farting around here in the bay - it'll make your logistics easier.

If you really want to try, as someone mentioned REI in...

Planning on skiing Shasta with some first-timers via the H-W route from the BC trailhead this weekend if the weather cooperates. Heading up from SF on Saturday and skiing on Sunday unless the weather...

Send me a PM if you've got anything trade-worthy, I'm actually trying to get my GF into skiing so if you have any women's gear that might be cool.

Selling a pair of lightly used 25.5 TLT5Ps.

I bought these new for $850 in Feb 2012. They were only used on 2 tours in Tahoe, 1 tour in Jackson and then finally a summit ski of Mt Shasta. After...

Yuppp unfortunately I am not gonna make it up there this weekend since all my buddies left their backcountry gear up at Tahoe - will be hitting Carson Pass instead but hope to get up to Lassen next...

Just talked to a ranger at Lassen and he said that the North side road to the devastated area "TH" will probably open to cars this weekend, and if not will definitely be open next weekend. No need...

Anyone ever hear of someone biking the lassen road with skis before it opens to cars? Last memorial day I parked at the devastated area and hiked up the NE ridge by chaos crags to summit and ski the...

Skied Jake's for the first time yesterday (Only my 2nd season skiing here) and I can see why it's usually the center of west shore activity. There was almost no new snow down at the road so I...

I ended up getting the 186 and mounting it +1. Had a few days on it in Jackson skiing pow as well as some hardpack at the village. Definitely not too much ski for me - I was able to whip it around...

I suspect that going with a no-name brand would result in few/no updates since there's really no incentive for them to do it. Fortunately the update situation with Tablets is better than android...

Has anyone tried the 179 Automatic? I'm thinking about buying these but I'm a shorter dude (5' 7" 150lb) and can't decide between the 179 and 186. I haven't skied anything longer than 180 since I...

Bump.... Will now offer free shipping in the US if I can get rid of these in June!

Tyfalk - I skied down the AG (Left of Heart) the first weekend in May on Coombacks (106 underfoot) and it was fine. They obviously didn't deal well with the sastrugi and chickenheads that I found...

I looked into getting them punched, but the shop in Tahoe that I've worked with before had never done a punch on a grilamid boot before and wasn't too certain about it, and then the season ended.
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BSL is 277mm. My alpine boots (Salomon Falcon Pros) are 25.5 and fit great, so that's why I bought the dynafits in that size. I also usually wear 8.5 or 9 street shoes if that helps. These ones fit...

I'm selling my beloved TLT5Ps after coming to the realization that I bought the wrong size. These are just too short in the toebox for me, as I discovered when my big toes were numb for a week after...

Sick man, way to get after it. I was in the Sangres this past weekend, was going to do some backpacking with my girl down in NM but there was too much snow (!) in the mountains there so we drove up...

I lived in Jackson during the 09/10 winter and I got to plop my ass down on the tram seats with disturbing frequency in March when the bowl was frozen rock solid and we were going on a BC mission....

Sick pics! The rime on the trees looks really cool in those pass pictures.

Anyone know of a place in town or the village that rents out beacons? I'm coming out the last week in feb with a couple...

Did a lap on the claw this morning and it was already snowing at the top of the pass. The 15" or so we got over last week made the pass pretty damn good over the last couple days. The Claw and skiers...

A couple years ago at Alta I had the misfortune of catching an edge on the high T right before the mats, where all the fencing is to the left. I ended up double ejecting and crashing into the fence,...