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04-27-2008, 09:13 PM #1
TR: Cacade Slayage: Shuksan, West Face Descent. Where's that? Read all about it!
After a few weeks of hacking yellow spittle all over the place because of bar-related dance-floor cough (B.R.D.C) or strept throat, I was itching to get back at the line that we originally intended to ski when we skied "Curtis Blow" on Mt. Shuksan a few weeks ago.
This weekend, Sky told me he would hold my hand and help me ski Triple Couloirs up on Colchuck. I declined to ski this heinously-exposed, rappel infested, and impossibly-gnarly line. However, when fellow Cascade assassin Jason Hummel showed interest in the west face line the was last attempted by him back in 1999, I just had to party.
Unfortunately, the ultimate dilemma presented itself: my roomates and I were slated to throw a faux wedding and I was to be the ring bearer (which comically, was a contraceptive ring). Obviously there was no way I could miss this event, so I had to do what I always do: oblitterate the dance floor with my infinite flex and slay within 24 hrs. In the end, the wedding provided ample laughs as well as hot dance-floor action and beautiful sunsets with hot babez.
Like 3 hours later I was here:
Skiers: Myself ( Davide De Masi ), Paul Kimbrough, Jason Hummel, Ryan Carter
While this TR is boarderline NSR at this point, I'll get to the meat. The West Face is accessed from the upper Sulphide Glacier and provides a 4200 foot descent that begins as a 35-38 degree snofield in the upper reaches and quickly funnels about 1500 down into a 40+ degree couloir. As it faces West and is in the Cascades, we got extremely lucky to not have encountered heinous conditions due to the lack of nightly freeze that night.
We started out on Sat around noon and Jason, Paul, and I camped near lake Anne in a nice blow hole. Miraculously, Ryan (facedeep) met us around 9pm at our campsite after a long day of kicking little children off ropeswings and into lava. We hung out and skied some lines that evening as shitty weather approached.
We thought for sure the line was going to be totally-fucked-waist-deep-isothermal-wallow-fest but it was fine, with good snow for about 2000 feet below the summit.
Nearing the sulphide glacier.
Though our goal was to simply ski this face, we ended skinning up to the base of the summit pyramid climb and skiing from there.
The sulphide.
Summit pyramid, with weather getting even shitter.
Jason skiing down from our high point.
Great turns high up on the face.
The lower section was the crux of the climb. It contained about 1500 feet of steep couloirs.
As we made our terrible 2k vertical deproach through 2 day old unfrozen mank, it started to rain on us right after we skied off chair back to the vehicle. Tent to Car: 12 hours. And I'm done.
Jason should have many more good pics, especially of the lower section... I was too busy watching massive wetslides come down all over the place to take any pictures. Good day out there.Last edited by powdherb; 04-27-2008 at 09:16 PM.
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04-27-2008, 09:20 PM #2
Strong work! As always, I'm looking forward to seeing some of Jason's photos.
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible" -Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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04-27-2008, 09:25 PM #3
wow, very nice
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04-27-2008, 09:47 PM #4
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04-27-2008, 09:51 PM #5
Sweet.
We were up by Colchuck on sat. (too late, bailed on nbc and did the glacier), and when we got down a couple of people asked if we saw their friend skiing the triple couloirs. Umm, no, we looked and would have noticed that . It was nice up there, though.
Good job on shuksan.
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04-27-2008, 09:51 PM #6
That's not widowmaker, that's actually Utah. Everyone should ski in Utah.
(it really is not widowmaker)Putting the "core" in corporate, one turn at a time.
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04-27-2008, 09:58 PM #7
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04-27-2008, 10:54 PM #8
She was sick today and I am fucking tired. Sick shot of Pauly. Need to steal your cam cord tomorrow night.
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04-27-2008, 11:26 PM #9Will work for snow
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You guys suck, again.
Now that school is done for Dave and Ryan, get a job so you can also get fat, slow,and with rubber legs like the rest of the world.
Good stuff, again. The Northwest rules. Good seeing you guys again at the kamp k2 poach.
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04-28-2008, 05:22 AM #10
Shuksan is a sweet mountain. That's some nice work there.
Ride Fast, Live slow.
We're mountain people. This is what we do, this is how we live. -D.C.
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04-28-2008, 07:42 AM #11
Your commentary has left me speechless. Bravo, sir. Bravo.
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04-28-2008, 07:49 AM #12
BUT. What about the promised straightline off the summit pyramid?
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04-28-2008, 08:37 AM #13"The idea wasnt for me, that I would be the only one that would ever do this. My idea was that everybody should be doing this. At the time nobody was, but this was something thats too much fun to pass up." -Briggs
More stoke, less shit.
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04-28-2008, 08:44 AM #14
Serious stokage for a rainy VT monday morning. Thank you
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04-28-2008, 08:53 AM #15
Sweetness.
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04-28-2008, 09:53 AM #16rm -rf *
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04-28-2008, 10:56 AM #17
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04-28-2008, 01:57 PM #18
You sick bastard. I trust you got your ski?
[QUOTE=Lani;1821853]Unless said skiers were using invisible ninja steeze.
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04-28-2008, 02:02 PM #19rm -rf *
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No, we bailed. I just wanted to throw a screwball at your TR since you insisted on skiing a line I had shown you. Glad you did it with Jason, though. He and that line go way back.
Want to go ski it again when it's in proper condition? The true test of a route....
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04-28-2008, 05:23 PM #20
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04-28-2008, 05:26 PM #21Registered User
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04-29-2008, 01:42 PM #22Registered User
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Good times guys!!! More stuff here:
http://www.cascadecrusades.org/SkiMo...008/wf2008.htm
A taste:
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04-29-2008, 07:07 PM #23Will work for snow
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Bump, debump It's very French...
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04-29-2008, 07:58 PM #24
fucking money
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04-29-2008, 10:00 PM #25Everything in moderation, including moderation . . .
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