Took a trip up to Washington Pass last Wednesday and skied around the blue lake col and early winter spires.

http://thesnowtroopers.com/2011/washington-pass-wa-junuary-15th-61511/
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Anybody else look at the alpental telemetry? lots of weird one hour jumps in the temps that were not uniform throughout the bottom.

MM/DD Hour Temp Temp Temp RH RH Wind Wind Wind ...

http://www.nwac.us/media/uploads/documents/accidents/2010_2011/Grouse_Ridge_Avalanche_3-4-2011.pdf

this is a pretty crazy avalanche report. really shows how human factors can lead to very bad...

is that the one with a rockwall skiers right most of the way and thick trees in the entrance? If it is how is the outrun on it?

YouTube - Mt Baker BC Splitboarding

Baker last sunday was rad! :biggrin:

on the topic of gnarly alpental lines does ungo alley see much traffic? its on alpental.com but they don't have a great picture of it. i was looking up it the other day and it looks super gnarly...

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/434796_missingskier03.html?source=mypi
Crews searching for a cross country skier missing near Snoqualmie Pass believe she was killed when the snow ledge she was...

huh it was freezing rain at the bottom of alpy at noon.

alpental was pretty fun till the warm front came in, the snow was very slabby but where it was smooth it skied great.

as soon as it got...

touche, i still want to go skiing tomorrow though.

a day in the mountains is always better than a day at work and its possible that chair 2 could be good in the morning,

anybody planning on driving from seattle to alpental and have room in their...

temps at the top were sub freezing all day a bit above at mid mountain, seemed like it was possible that it was heavy snow at the top and possibly a lot of it.

anybody ride alpental today?
Telementry makes it look like where it was snowing they could have picked up a lot.
the question is how low down was it snowing?

alpental stoke from monday:
http://vimeo.com/18290406

were the bc gates open/worth skiing?

anybody ski alpental late in the day today?
is there enough snow to stay above the crust?