Thread: Shasta summer 2012

Looks like the window for stuff up high is gonna be closed for a while as the forecast looks pretty crappy even through Memorial weekend. But like gimpy said it should be nice and refreshed when the next weather window shows up. Time to start planning for some HotTuna. When that run pops off the peak it's as good as it gets. Gonna have to keep mountain biking to maintain my Shasta legs!

Fine BG, I'll stay home!
Dammit!
I hope it does this all summer long. A few years ago, it snowed up there every week during the summer.
Freshies next week!

reports from the weekend are muy bueno. pow turns on the toona. ima try to get up there in the week following mem day weather permitting.

Originally Posted by brannen

Soooo, knowing nothing about Shasta and never have been there I was wondering what, if anything, I could ski solo, without crampons or an axe?

Im not a climber, mountaineer or a good person in general, but I would like to do some skiing in the next week or 2.
As far as previous experience, Ive pretty much only dicked around St.Marys Glacier and Mt.Evans in Colorado, only skinning and boot-packing up a couple grand of mellow slope with little to no exposure.

I am waiting for my job to start in Redding and cant journey too far away in case we do start, so was looking to explore my new backyard.

I am in pretty good shape from riding my bike like crazy, but havent taken my BC gear out all season, except on Alpines closing weekend, but that was only because my other gear was safely locked away for the summer.

Not looking to go crazy or anything, just want to make some turns again and do some camping.

oh yeah, i am doing some research myself, just wanted to tap into the wealth of knowledge here if possible

Plenty of safe areas to ski, with the usual avi caveats. Stay off the northern aspects and their glaciers and you should be fine. The Avi Gulch area can be a zoo, so you probably won't be solo anyway.

thanks for the beta
looks like the weather turned to poop this week with 100mph winds before the storm, bummer. hopefully fires start burning somewhere so i can get to work, but if they dont all is not lost, it sounds amazing up there.
not sure if this was from here or not, but this has helped me out quite a bit
http://www.skimountaineer.com/Cascad...hp?name=Shasta

maybe ill run into some of you kooks out there this summer

namaste

Originally Posted by gimpy

reports from the weekend are muy bueno. pow turns on the toona. ima try to get up there in the week following mem day weather permitting.

Looking at w/x forecasts the week right after Memorial Day could be amazing. gimpy, check your pm's.

Not so good at the moment.

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick...&FcstType=text

http://www.snowcrest.net/camera/

Originally Posted by jibmaster

Brewer Creek is perfect right now. Just follow the creek (Brewer Creek) up from the road down lower.

What's the brush situation if we do this? I know that from the trailhead up it is easy to ski right to the car. How's the skiing lower down? Still pretty open, or does it get pretty overgrown?

Headed up this weekend, less people = more better.

It's pretty open. Plus the creek bed is usually clear.

so i guess a Squaw contingent is coming down 2mrw to meet up and we are skiing on sunday. hit me up if you want to meet up

I'm going to be around in July.... will I be too late for snow?

Gotta work on the weekends. I got Tue/Wed off.
July is always still good. Plan on the east side -Brewer Creek.

Who jibbed Shasta this past weekend?
Anyone hit the north side?
How was it?

Looks like the weather is in our favor.
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick...&FcstType=text

they were predicting high winds on Wed., but have dropped that forecast, or so it seems.

Mmm... tasty!

Oh, my!

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friends bailed on me, of course. im looking to hit it thursday, but they were bringing crampons for me, bastards.
anyone help out?
im basically living on the memorial highway and riding my bike, so anyday would actually work.

I'll be @ the 'Goat' by 1pm tuesday.
Heading for the 'other' north side TH
skiing Wed.

Heading up to Bunny Flats late today, planning on climbing Avi Gulch and skiing the west face tomorrow. Thursday maybe do a different route or Lassen.

If anyone wants company send an email to my handle @gmail or just look for the weathered old mercedes with blue rp112s sitting shotgun.

Skied from the summit on Monday. Snow was bulletproof up top, but was great through Trinity Chutes. Was able to ski all the way to the car at Bunny Flat........but not for long. Get after it!

Hmmm........It's a 4X4 use the other rear end and drive out.

Hotlum Wintun is in terrible shape. Not even worth riding the upper/best part of the ridge. The Wintun glacier proper is nice though. Lower HW had some good turns too. That new snow did more bad than good on the east side imo. It was sticky and variable. I came home instead of riding another day due to lower than expected snow quality (I have high standards for slogging up huge mountains fwiw). Perfect day however with not even a breeze to make everything soft off the peak although it was a bit ragged for the first 300 feet.

bg - agreed on the state of the h/w man. sorry i couldnt get word to ya but my phone was dead till i got home. the east side did look better before this last storm. we ended up just skiing the wintoon glacier all the way back to clear creek which was really good. the only really good turns i found up high were in the trinities and the summit pocket chutes. the wintoon didnt get really good till we were in the maw of the glacier.

dnklauer -- i was rappin w/ yer crew on the summit block on monday. we came from clear creek

Ha! I saw your tracks on lower Wintun wrapping back around to Clear Creek. I remember thinking that's a neat idea. Wintun was pretty damn good compared to how HW looked. I always wanted to ride it as it's a great fall line off the peak. I milked it almost to the bottom and then hopped over a moraine and milked some good turns on lower HW. I also found a great approach after some hiking around the woods the previous afternoon that involved an unmarked skid road that took me straight to the upper portion of the Brewer Cr gully. It only took me a little over an hour to reach treeline from the car. Only a 1/2 hour of hiking each way to skinnable snow too. Left car at 4:00 and summited at 11:10. Dropped at noon and was back to car at 1:10.

noice!! i'll still be going back to hit the h/w in mid/late june when little league is over. i love the energy charge i get from standing atop that mtn

Surprised to hear that about HW - never seen it in "bad" shape early in the season. Can you describe it a bit more? Like just not smooth? Windblown? Sastrugi? The Wintun always does look really fun to stay on. About what elev did you cut back to Clear Creek TH?