Anita and I skied Silver Peak last night, the final vaca hurrah after bailing out a day early from a 4-day scramble trip in the Chelan Mtns due to bad weather. From Windy Pass, we hiked a bit up the...

Ah, I haven't looked at the book for years. That's how we did my first BDT, i.e., by the book.

Gee, somebody ought to get that route a name. :wink: It could become a classic :biggrin:

Will, sorry to hear you guys got pea souped. We went E to the Entiats for 3 days. Had a couple very nice tours, worth the long ass carry. Andy fucked up his eye Friday so couldn't join us. Long...

erosion happens

Damn. Maybe we'll hit the Colchuck Glacier instead :biggrin:

Solstice tour at Silver Peak last night. Fabulous views, amazing sunset, fun turns and good folks. Got down at dark. We heard that Chainsaw Willie, altasnob, et. al. came out by headlamp :tongue:...

Vesper Peak on Friday, 6/18 and Birthday Tour on Saturday, 6/19. Both were in great shape for skiing, but clouds and fog blocked our views. Skied down Madison Ave. in dense fog. BDT should be in...

Great touring around Fortune/Ingalls this weekend. Snowpack looks like early to mid-May in a good year. Fully consolidated. Get it while you can.

Will was there with our rather large loud group yesterday evening. Skied whateverthefuckitscalled line from the bottom of Chair 2 to I-90

Skier killed in crevasse fall on Nisqually Glacier

Fun Cinco de Mayo evening skin laps, grilled meats and beer at Alpy with Mtn Man, Chainsaw Willie and 4 friends. Just us. Where the hell was everybody else?

Skin laps at Alpy last night. Wintry conditions, fun fast pow turns top to bottom, dumping when we left. Very windy so expect lee loads

there will be Cinco de Mayo at Alpy whether or not the lifts are operating

Great stuff. Gonna be some touring this weekend

Skin laps at Alpy last night. 12" - 18" of fresh sticky (at times tricky) pow. More on the way. Nutty April

I'm shocked, shocked

Nah, I'm not. Of course Alpy is extending the season :biggrin:

Nope. Overnight lottery permit requirement goes into effect on June 15. It's wide open until then.

No way to predict when and at what level the trail will be snow free. By Memorial Day, the...

After work skin laps at Hyak yesterday. Stuck to N and NE aspects and close to the trees, but that didn't help much. Sun crust layer cake snow. Yikes :eek:

Discussion about yesterday's slab release on The Phantom over on TAY. Sounds like sun affected newer snow over the recent rain crust. No fatalities. Reports of a broken leg and an injured knee. ...

Alpy sometimes sets a closing date and then reconsiders -- or maybe the initial closing date was a pretext and it's a marketing ploy. One year, they extended the closing date week after week to the...

A monsoon or two or three happens every year in late March or April, just as a big Jan or Feb thaw happens nearly every year. What's different this year is that everybody is bellyaching so much and...

Per telemetry: 3.5" of precip in the past 24 hours at Alpy/Snoq Pass but the snow pack has decreased only 1"

so far

Should accelerate the degradation of those persistent weak layers : )

That's the S side of Cowboy Mountain that goes down to Tunnel Creek. But, yes, that's what appears to have happened -- a top layer point release which accumulated in a terrain trap. We tourists...

Should be a great weekend for touring safe areas >4000', but be aware of buried facets on the rain crust layer and slab avy potential. See eze's fine but sobering account of a big slab release E of...

Thanks. Very fun day. -2F at the start. Brrrrr. Fun skiing knee deep pow on my 44mm waisted Fischer Superlights

Black & red Danger Rose for Sunday on NWAC. Be careful!

Bummer, DBS :( Best o' luck

Be careful if you plan to tour. Big unstable leeward loads have formed. Numerous reports of releases.

We've signed up to do the Hog Loppet (30K Nordic) on Saturday and will likely tour in the...

Chris and I did a half day tour to Pineapple yesterday. N aspects still in good shape in the Snoq Pass area. I don't pay much attention to that because I love the tour, but the youngsters in our...

We may have seen your party. Yeah, it was more populated than I've ever seen it, but there was plenty to go around.

Chair Peak circumnav was spectacular today. Best overall conditions I've ever seen on this classic route.

see http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/showthread.php?t=214698 She was a real gem. So sad

If anybody here was at Alpy Wed night and witnessed Mtn_Man getting plowed over from behind, PM CW or me.

It's not about dry. It's about warm. A big thaw in January is the norm. Sometimes it's a dry thaw but more often it's a wet rainy Pineapple Xpress thaw, like we had two weekends ago.

and the Jan 2009 monsoon

Forecasts like these are why I also ski on Nordic gear. And, once again, I'll remind the NC tourists that the glaciers are getting hammered with snow!

It skied okay with the right wax. Most competitors (all top finishers) were on red or red/silver mix klister, which worked great and stayed on throughout the race. A few of us were on waxless skis...

100% rain at yesterday's Gunnar Hagen 30K/10K classic XC race at Cabin Creek

Should be better E of Wash Pass. Best o' luck

forecast calls for temps to start dropping Monday, down to 2500' by Tuesday

in other words, this Pineapple Express too shall pass

On the bright side, it's been snowing gangbusters all season >6000' in the Cascades. If this keeps up, there's going to be fabulous glacier skiing in May and June and early July.

La Nina generally corresponds to wetter PNW, but has a weaker correlation to a colder PNW

NWAC is merely echoing NWS. Looks real

Beyond perfect boot top to knee deep pow on The Phantom today. Chainsaw Willie to post TR. Refuckingmarkable day

What Alpental telemetry are you looking at? I see 1.38" of precip, zero snow and decreasing snowpack at Alpy base. Am I missing something here?

Hoping forecast holds for falling temps and some...

We toured it on Sunday. PM sent.

Indeed it was! We had an astoundingly scenic tour quite a ways S and E of you on Sunday

Mt. Baker telemetry is looking pretty good: wet snow, maybe some rain mixed in, but certainly way better looking than the data for everywhere else. WSDOT reports "raining" at Stevens Pass.

Hoping...

Might be better up your way. A few inches rain-soaked new at Alpy last night. Light rain/freezing rain fell all night. Forecast calls for more rain on the way to 5000' -- 5500', then cold snap...