CoUnTrY cLuB ClAsSiCs: Helens and Nisqually, Jan. 26-27.

[alto]

Two runs for 10k' and an unbelievable percentage of those feet being perfect corn has me buzzing at I sit here bombarding the internet with spray.
"All time."
"Deepest ever."
"Top ten, for sure bro."
You've heard these words before and I can tell you that such elementary hyperbole cannot begin to describe the skiing shown here. It is just so elementally rad that if you weren't there you should retire because it will never be that good again. Don't feel lonely: I'm retiring too, it was just that good.

And I wish you all could have been there. Well many of you, at least. Something about surfing fresh corn down the miles-long flanks of living mountains with sunglasses and shorts just makes you.... Tan and Jacked.

Mt. St. Helens from Rainier.


Helens from Helens. We chopped the trees to get the shot.


Adams from Helens.


It was real easy going up.


Lava Dome (x2)


True Gnar, nominated for 19 Oscars.


Don't think, just go.


Country club livin'.


High impact sport:




And so on fifty-something-hundred feet to the car.


The next day S facing volcano slopes beckoned again so I headed to a little chute that goes snowfield to glacier to river to road in the Mount Rainier National Park. Where's that?


Time to get your groove on with 4,700' left. To the bridge, obvy.




Swooosh.


CHECK!

[Ape_Natural]

Looks good man. I really want to get back to St. Helens after we had to rebate it last year due to weather. We got up around 3500' and then some really nasty black/gray clouds rolled in and we had to turn around. St. Helens has such an eerie vibe to it though doesn't it? Good to hit it before permit season too.

[neck beard]

Jan 26th?

Eitherway, I'm stoked. I love long corn skiing.

[PROVO]

sick report drew, top 10 fer shur! but wheres the all time pow bro?

[jon turner]

beuatiful pics

[That was Pontus]

Cool, thanks for the TR. Only ever been up there in the summer, once with a view and once without. Clouds are only good if the snow is coming down...

[powski3]

The lines into the crater would be the ultimate, probably suicidal poach.

[adimmen]

sometimes there's nothing better than a long corn descent

[Buke]

The lines into the crater would be the ultimate, probably suicidal poach.

There are skiable lines into the crater they're just illegal so you won't hear anyone talking about it. Plus the hike out is gnarly no matter how you do it. My friend Don and I saw two guys drop in one spring afternoon. It was pretty windy so we didn't hang around to see what their exit strategy was.

[Edgnar]

I'm flying out there tonight. This makes me so stoked, thanks!!!!

[HikeforTurns]

Ye$$$$$$

[_Aaron_]

Meh, that only looked really fun.

[Lani]

Glad you had good turns, Drew.

Did you ditch the avy gear?

I am interested to ski in Worshington next Friday.

[406]

cool photos, nice work.

[summit]

nice stuff!

[Ape_Natural]

The lines into the crater would be the ultimate, probably suicidal poach.

After studying St. Helens in Geology class the other day all I could do was sit there and look at all of the lines in pic after pic of the crater. After class I said pretty much the exact same thing to my friend. I heard it was a 6,000 dollar fine for going in the crater... Worth it?

[Crystal_Mt_Dreamin]

After studying St. Helens in Geology class the other day all I could do was sit there and look at all of the lines in pic after pic of the crater. After class I said pretty much the exact same thing to my friend. I heard it was a 6,000 dollar fine for going in the crater... Worth it?

It looks good when you're looking in, but $6k buy a lot of NICE heli assisted turns w/ no sulfur smell...

[alto]

Did you ditch the avy gear?

We discussed this and I asked myself, "What would my mom say?" So I brought it all.

To spice up my otherwise boring reply, more bar pics:

[Fortune_Cookie]

It was nice of the mountain to lower itself to 8300 feet, so scoring corn on St. Helens in January isn't as rare as one might think. Good on ya for getting it

[neck beard]

I've got thigh deep powder in endless quantities today, too much to track out, all mine within 45 minutes from putting down my coffee cup and walking out the door with my skis and skins. It is like that every day, except when it is only boot deep. Yet I am envious of the corn session. I wanna to ski with Alto.

[Chainsaw_Willie]

That looks about like it did in May last year when I did it. Good work!

Was the road open to climber's Bivouac?

[tone capone]

Fuck yeah dude, I love that kind of corn. Schralp that shit!

[Trackhead]

I don't like my cows and chickens fed corn, but I do like to ski it.

Nice pics, poncho.

[nieveparasiempre]

way to get it alto. i'm quasi free these days. lets get some moar.

[AKbruin]

Love it. Great stuff, alto.