There is still quite a bit of snow in the Hannegan Pass area. As I was hiking out sans skis I passed Skibum_Roberts et al. on their way in for a weekend retreat of awesomeness. Their quivers ranged...

Sounds like there's between 20 and 50 feet of snow up at the Artist Point parking lot.

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Website says 857 inches for the season, unofficial.

http://www.mtbaker.us/1011/ski-area-info/snowfall-statistics/

Never thought I'd see a MAMU-related post here, even if the supposed effects are so far off the mark it's laughable.

Grant on Shuksan? BWAHAHAHAHAHA! He missed the awesome friday and saturday bluebird pow bonanzas due to dorking about in Vancouver and didn't get to the ski area until this afternoon, right when it...

Shuksan was absolutely slayed over the past two days. Zack Giffin, Ben Price, and others got a gnar line above and below the hanging glacier on Friday and people also got after the NW Couloir today....

Friday AM Shuksan Arm slayers were tele superstars Paul Kimbrough and Jake Sakson (see Jake's blog for proof of superstarness http://lifeasaquest.com/2011/04/18/sick-shredding-at-mt-baker/). Look...

I threw the world's smallest backflip on the Arm today, and there's a 11/12 obSETHed w/ Duke attached still out there if you know where to look.

Got three lines from Blueberry to left of the horn towards Table today. Bliss. Sun. Pow. Beer.

If anyone's in Glacier tomorrow night my band is opening up at Chair 9.

The top layer's still moving on the Arm and Hemispheres.

All I know is that all the usual lines on the 1st knob popped when ridden, same with the steeper stuff on lower central Hemispheres.

FYI: that 8-12" of snow we got last night is not bonding well to the steep stuff.

Here are three backcountry awareness photos from the Baker area.

1st photo is Lake Anne area from 3.19 at 16:42. The 2nd photo is a genius standing on top of the mondo cornice on top of the 1st...

My guess is that the passholders that get caught absolutely positively know that they fucked up bigtime so what are they going to say? There's really no excuse because in order to get your pass you...

Dean and I broke the record for number of poacher season pass holders busted in one day today. We got a group of three morons in Oy w/o gear, w/o clue, and now w/o passes.

There were many people that were avoiding the Arm AND Oi because of the perceived risk at the time. Avoiding the Arm was a no-brainer because you couldn't see more than about 50' in front of you,...

When you see morons out there with no clue, it's in all of our (and their) best interest to tell them what they need to know to keep themselves and everyone else around them safe. Start out nice...

If they don't listen to you, maybe they'll listen to Gunder or Dean's set of wire cutters. I hope they have season passes.

Yep, that's pretty much what it looks like. I'm not sure where the old growth is but who knows? There are also some pretty giant crowns on Bill's Bulge (looks bigger and maybe more recent than...

I just got home from Baker and just got word that Shuksan Arm went big sometime this afternoon in comparable size to '98-'99. Hope everyone's ok.

The party I'm talking about should have been three people.

Talk to Gunder if you want pics.

Today started out quite muddy but skied progressively better as I skied progressively worse. Lots of wind and cracks in all the usual places. One party went out...

We took him up Hemispheres and out the Arm on Monday. Awesome!

I saw you guys putting in the bootpack from somewhere past Pyramid. Thanks for not bootpacking the skintrack - way to lead by example. I'm kind of curious how much energy you think you might save...

Gunder and I have some nice pics of the crown today. Yeah, maybe 2-3m deep so that's about 1/4 to 1/2 as deep and maybe 1/4 to 1/5 as wide as 98-99.

I'm amazed nobody skied down right next to the...

You crossed my tracks at 1:30!

I know that skier you were talking to. He's a total douchenozzle.

In other news, I predict all-time conditions in the PNW until March 4. Enjoy.

Funny, after many years of booting I now laugh inside when I put on my skins and pass the people booting. To each their own I suppose.

key-z, your buddy needs to learn some etiquette regarding...

That's not to the top of Hemis, that's just the very first pitch right out of the gate and there's a lot more to go, esp. if you're heading out the Arm.

As for speed and efficiency, well, it's...

Key-Z: pink jacket and dreads?

Hey I bought my ticket and was committed to Japan well before things got bad here, and until a few days before I got there they had nothing to speak of.

The names you might have for certain...

Hey, if you guys had great days then high fives for you. I had fun, but I definitely had too much company. I can think of many days earlier in the season that had "better" conditions...

Really? Where were you? I was at Baker w/ about 1,489,127 fuckwits doing stupid stuff all over the place. The snow was good and it was nice to see the sun though.

I saw 8 cops (sheriff/border patrol/staters/etc.) in between Glacier and B'ham this afternoon. Yay LBS weekend!

Yesterday was in my top 5 deepest softest lightest fluffiest pow days ever category. Glad I skipped town when I did. Don't worry, I'll make a bottomless pow turn for each of you soggy pnw'ers today.

The last two weeks in December at MBSA
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He is the gaper that falls off the chairlift and blames it on a "gust of wind".

WC makes his way out of the doghouse!

Just about every place I like to ski slides regularly under certain conditions, but that doesn't mean I'm going to take up XC skiing, it just means I'm going to do my best to be careful.
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...because it's fun?

BC skiing is all about terrain management and minimizing exposure, and those snowboarders and whatever idiots put in that skin track failed on both counts. Luckily for them,...

SeatownSlackey gets the problem w/ the skintrack. That area slides all the time and you have no control over people dropping in on you as you're heading up (that skintrack was buried later by a...

WTF people? Sunny powder = brains turned off.

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Days like December 14 and 15, 2010 are why I live here.

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Looks like I'm going to replace the video w/ a version where the intro scroll is slower. That seems to be the biggest technical gripe.

The red skis are an old prototype made on Vashon in 2007. They are 179cm long, 137-108-127 dimensions (old Made'n AK mold) with low profile Zag-esque tips and what is now the Coomback rocker...

Here's my first attempt at a "self edit", covering the past three weeks at Mt. Baker:

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Feel free to praise and/or critique.

Mostly because clusterfucks like today started becoming a regular occurrence and it's hard for the lifties, groomers, and ops. people to groom the corral area, set up the corral, clean out the area...

Tomorrow is going to be even worse. Mark my words! :FIREdevil

Powder Frenzy at Baker is such a shitshow at the best of times. Gunder and I had a pretty awesome view of the the ~200 people getting their skiercross on when the line dropped, then having a hard...