Glacier lodge is open to the end. Could ski from south fork all the way down to the bridge at the day lot as of yesterday on continuous snow (well, maybe one little gingerly step across some dirt). ...

looking for ideas for next weekend/week. what's good right now in terms of access from Bishop south? Anyone been up Big Pine and what's the road status towards Glacier Lodge? With fishmas upon us...

Right on Mr. Hankey! I'm going to be around the eastside around May 4-9. Was planning on heading in southfork, palisades area (but keeping an eye on conditions everywhere) in case you are in the...

I love this thread. Just did another old school paper template mount. Before and after. :fm:

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Does anyone know who might fit these liners in Tahoe? I’m a few years into my Hawx Ultra XTDs and the old stock liners are packed out and toast. Never liked the liners anyway tbh and these mimics...

well, we pulled the plug and bailed on the trip. local hotels were very cool to refund our deposits, but I felt bad because i know the local family owned hotels and restaurants are going to have...

I’m guessing I’ll just need to queue up at the ticket office every morning to deal with an ikon pass and cdc card (and explaining it again to a worker that has never seen either one) rather than...

one of the greatest ski days i ever had was driving into LCC when two cars ahead of me spun out. I kept the momentum going uphill, narrowly missed both cars pinwheeling around me, white knuckled my...

So we have a long planned trip to St Anton for a week and Alta Badia for a week around the holidays. Austria obviously locked down for the moment, but our hotel is begging us not to cancel and says...

Great info in here thx mtnlion. Due to some last minute issues we are reconsidering our Xmas plans and I was thinking about bringing the family up to Banff for the week before Xmas. How’s the snow...

hard to tell, is that the lookers right Conness summit couloir? Can you get through to the plateau with some drytooling if you wanted to tag the summit, or is that just booting up to the high snow...

Thanks Mr. Hankey. I may give Lassen a go. In other news, here's a flyover shot of the east side of Shasta about an hour ago. This is depressing. We are nearly in full on talus slog season...

anyone skied lassen recently? Apparently the road is open to devastated area, so a jaunt up and down the NE face seems like it might be a decent outing. not sure i want to drive six hours to chase...

A little late to the party here, but a few pics from two weeks ago out of twin lakes. We were planning on two nights out on the snow. Got there friday (3/19) midday and debated skiing in despite...

bumping an old thread because I keep breaking these garbage plastic pomoca clips in cold weather. Went for a frankenclip by clipping off the broken hooked section but keeping the body of the old...

I’ve broken three plastic tail clips. Anyone have any good suggestions of a better replacement that would work on the flexi Pomoca tension strap

pics of the brake issue. First is the way it should look. Second is after icing up and now no bueno. Need to remove brake and try to finesse any bends in the brake bar I think.

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A few observations on these binders. I have the earlier front-mounted brake FR14 2.0 as well as the later rear brake with floating stomp pad version FreeRaider 14. I have also mounted a pair of...

Was told by a local guide friend in Cortina that an American woman skier in early 50s lost edge in the Bus de Tofane and began a slide. Her guide tried to arrest her slide and they slid together for...

Those photos make it look way better than it was

This is a one photo TR from the Conness area today
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i'm planning on heading up there this weekend. may skip north peak given the amazing runnel report, but hoping some corn still to be found on false white and maybe tick the Conness summit and...

Looks like the road is now clear and open for through traffic two hours a day starting today. This likely means the full opening is imminent....

My daughter and I skied Lassen yesterday. Some texture on the lower angle flats area but fairy minimal and soft/easy to push around. The face itself was absolutely glorious rip roaring corn from...

Haha you mean this river of hail? It was bluebird right before that. Gotta love mountain weather.

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This thread rocks. Doc in particular is having an absolute slaying year. So...

Nice Mr Hankey! I recall a similar trip 13 years ago this month. Man we are gettin old!

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Thanks for the Lassen report. Can you bandit camp in that parking lot to get an early start on the hill?

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Little further. Great Western Divide down to the Canyon of the Kern

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Tyndall and a big willy

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Beta shot if you’re doing the SHR. Taken this morning. Looking west to Alta-tablelands and across Cloud Canyon Towards Milestone.

Skied Pyramid Peak on Sunday. Everything was total mush on saturday despite a howling front coming through so expectations were very low. Unexpected clearing on saturday night gave us a pretty hard...

From Ice Lake, don't go west over the pass into YNP. Instead, skin SSE up an obvious chute that leads up to the SW shoulder of Eocene Peak. The chute basically parallels the Hoover/YNP boundary...

Yes, the *original* Mono Cone! The great dripping virginia ice cream cone. "Sierra_Bill" on instagram hit this back in March and it looked $$$, check his insta profile for some nice pics and video....

Haha yeah the wife got us a dog (for the kids) then took the kids to Mexico for a week during corn season and left me home with a five month old puppy. Fack!



Ah Buddy. Had some great times...

A few pics to assist your trip planning endeavors:

Tom/Basin/Buttermilks.
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South Lake scene. Johnson/Gilbert/Thomson. The three trident couloirs coming off Thompson look plastered....

Just skied up to bishop pass this morning. The south lake area probably offers best bang for buck right now. Road open to pack station. Easy one mile walk on dry road to the dam. High elevation...

damn i was only 2.3 miles away and that was my next guess! great line btw, nicely done.

Maybe this line you can apparently see from the International Space Station?
https://goo.gl/maps/iE3biWYhjp92

I'll bite. looks set east of the crest, near big pine. I'll guess Tinnemaha?

everytime we skied from st. anton over to Zurs we just skied over the valluga and down to zurs. we also drove over to zurs from stanton one morning to get an early jump on a big backcountry...

I was in St. Anton for 8 days in mid-to late-Feb. Insane. It snowed before we got there but didn't really snow much during our week and yet we found fresh tracks every single fukn day and it was...

So i think i picked the right year for a yurp trip. We are heading to Austria for a week in mid-late Feb. Have a place in Pettneu as a base, and planning to ski St. Anton a couple of days and also...

Yeah, I didn't get that memo! Filed away now though.

So I was in the same neighborhood after skiing over cleaver col and skied down Horse creek to meet my buddy coming up. Ran into him just...

Corn harvest was quite strong this weekend. Macking coverage with cold nights and hot days. I took off work early thursday down in the bay and drove up to Bridgeport. Threw the pig on my back in...

Towelie! Buddy welcome back! You and I did that crazy mt conness west ridge climb to y couloir ski around a decade ago. Good to see the old badgers still lurking around here.

Re glacier Lodge, the road is open and dry all the way to the cabins at the end of the road. South fork trail hits snow very quickly once over the bridge, and conditions are great. Wet slides...

Just dug this up from an old trip to that area. From summit of Bear Creek Spire (well, just below the actual final summit block. not gonna do that in ski boots)

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Pretty sure that big one left background poking up over the Glacier Divide is Mt. Goddard.



That is Gemini. My dream peak! has been on my tick list for a looong time.

awesome pics. I did almost that exact tour many years ago, but instead of heading over Italy Pass I went over Dancing Bear into the Bear Lakes basin and up Seven Gables. That is an incredible area....

A few others from the neighborhood.

Mt. Sill NE ("L") couloir

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Norman Clyde North Couloir
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Good looking chutes off the crest between Mid Pal and the Thumb

Mid Pal looks like it goes -- that is, if the massive size of your balls doesn't inhibit your skiing.

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