You ready to meet up and go for a gruel?
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You ready to meet up and go for a gruel?
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^^^Thanks, it would be nice if they kept their webpage up to date...did so in the past.
really cool drone shots sticksplit!
Timing is key with cal trans
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Thanks any of you guys are welcome to come meet up. We are going again this weekend.
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Fun day on Throop, warm out there.
Fun seeing you out there. Did another lap later. Super fun!!!!
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https://youtu.be/s4TMg0tKr6c
This was 2 weekends ago!!! Enjoy
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^^^Same, nice turns on Burnham Saturday!
4/27/2019, Biked up ACH from Vincent Gap to snow line on Throop Peak.
Biking:
http://umtgriz.com/forum/2019/20190427_084637.jpg
booting:
http://umtgriz.com/forum/2019/20190427_093143.jpg
balloon popping:
http://umtgriz.com/forum/2019/20190427_104804.jpg
Skiing:
http://umtgriz.com/forum/2019/20190427_111925.jpg
http://umtgriz.com/forum/2019/20190427_112139.jpg
Me:
http://umtgriz.com/forum/2019/20190427_190626.jpg
Lap number 2, I like how the highway seems just below us:
http://umtgriz.com/forum/2019/20190427_120212.jpg
Buddy dropped his axe on the first run, so he repeated. I went for the far east chute that starts along the PCT. Boot pack in the right, second lap tracks on lookers left:
http://umtgriz.com/forum/2019/20190427_135945.jpg
Such an easy roll back to the truck:
http://umtgriz.com/forum/2019/20190427_140139.jpg
It was crazy warm out, but still good turns. I can't imagine snow will last much longer unless weather cools off.
Crazy how much melts every week. Looks like a lot less by the road then the weekend before. Might go poke around again this weekend. The cups came fast!!!! Rad shots till next time.🤙
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POV of lower part of lap #2 Saturday...had a little mandatory air that good the blood pumping:
http://umtgriz.com/forum/2019/MAH00883_001_480.mp4
http://umtgriz.com/forum/2019/MAH00883_001_480.mp4
Lol, that's similar to a glide crack I skimmed over on the next chute to your left, but couldn't see the bottom from above. Didn't hear running water, so gave it a go. Spooky being on the steeps and pointing over an unknown like that.
Ready for another go?
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anyone know if the gate on 2 at Vincent gap was open prior to the storms? Or is open now?
According to Caltrans site, looks like it might be open. BP area didn't get nearly as much snow from this storm as Bear.
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^^^caltrans site has had it open for a few months now, not sure why they are not correct this year.
GTK, I hadn't been watching the storms and someone told me 8" of new on the ground at snow summit, figures it would skip the gabes.
Went yesterday can drive to throop it’s almost all gone crazy how fast it goes. Can still ride the main chute have to down hike a little bit.
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Good turns on what was left? Did new snow smooth out the suncups and dirty snow?
No more sun cups. Was pretty good. Just a lot has melted. I walked the Boy Scout trail. Mostly dirt the hole way. I have some drone footage I’ll try to upload and post a frame grab. Was worth it for sure.
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Did the long slog up the South fork to Jepson Peak yesterday, June 2nd. I have never found good spring conditions near San Gorgonio and not a fan of the slog up South Fork, so have not been up that way in awhile. But deep snow pack and a late season storm to smooth out the sun cups got me motivated to take the risk. Got lucky and snow was perfect smooth couple inches of soft on firm.
Biked up the road to poopout hill:
http://umtgriz.com/forum/2019/20190602_080340.jpg
Most of the pavement seems to be gone, post fire. So ride is more interesting, but not as easy as spinning up on pavement.
No bikes! time to hike:
http://umtgriz.com/forum/2019/20190602_090626.jpg
Not much snow below 9000 ft(couple big piles of avalanche debris in South fork Meadows:
http://umtgriz.com/forum/2019/20190602_102601.jpg
Check out the pile of avalanche debris, this spilled over from the next drainage over(lookers right). Took skis/boots off here on way down, ~9000 ft:
http://umtgriz.com/forum/2019/20190602_103403.jpg
Finally starting to get near the top:
http://umtgriz.com/forum/2019/20190602_114830.jpg
Upper last part got to around 35 degrees:
http://umtgriz.com/forum/2019/20190602_130459.jpg
Racing against the storm all day, only one clap of thunder, but we didn't spend much time on summit. Ironic for June 2nd, but it was cold:
http://umtgriz.com/forum/2019/20190602_132530.jpg
Skiing was perfect:
http://umtgriz.com/forum/2019/20190602_132701.jpg
Exit went smoothly, but took awhile. Sure was nice rolling down the road on the bike to the truck vs walking the final 4 miles. 16 miles & 4500 vert ft total for the day. Vertical gain was about: 1000 ft on bike, 1500 on foot and 2000 on ski. Awesome day, but a lot of work.
Pretty sure that was my last SoCal skiing for the season, Dec to June is a good season. Sure was a good one, I have had years with more days, but every day was 5 star this year except one firm day on Mt. San Antonio. Also skied 2 new to me peaks(Jepson & Tahquitz) and found a couple new routes on other peaks. Time to dust off the surfboard and get some miles on the mountain bike. Fingers crossed to winter 2020, cheers.
Saw ur post on strava and was hoping for some details here. Looks epic!
Technically this was 2020 but within 4 days so I guess this thread is good enough. Went up S Fork trail with a couple friends 1/4/20. Goal was Jepson but predictably super wind stripped/icy. Ended up booting up N couloir on Jepson and then traversing over to Charlton Peak for a mix of fun to average snow. Really good in some sections, really bad in others. Played pow detective the entire descent. Skinning from car and skiing back to car was an added bonus.