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03-22-2010, 07:01 PM #1
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TR: Let the Spring touring Season !
While many people have been complaining about this season and the conditions I have found the resort to be rather sick the past month.
It’s good knowing all the local stash spots.
Photo by Scott Stugelmeyer.
And when things have been getting a little bit too tracked out for my taste I have been touring the Crystal slack country.
Pick your poison
Including but not limited to
Dog Legged Chute over and over
Crystal Lakes Basin. Please Peeps stop following our tracks
The Gnar on Crystal Peak (looker’s right chute)
Morse Creek Basin
Silver Basin
Cement Basin
Lake Basin
Sometimes we have been skinning
While other times we have been Cramponing
As you could imagine the same terrain can get boring so I have also been resorting to Glacier skiing.
And hucking off Seracs
I even attempted a 5 day bushwhack in the Picketts Range.
Freezing nightly
Just to turn around because of a few pesky avalanches
And now on to last Thursday.
To celebrate the spring touring season it was time to head out and take advantage of 3 bluebird days with low avalanche danger so in short.
STEEP NORTH FACING SLOPES………
The first objective was the North Twin Sister of the Twin Sisters Range.
You don’t need snow to skin
But it definitely helps. (Looking at the North Twin Sister)
I really hate boot packing
But sometimes have no options
Yeah there’s nothing burly in Washington.
I thought you said it was groomed
Yep a horrible season for sure
Once is never enough and the next day was time to up the ante of steep skiing.
Welcome to Johannesburg (our ascent in red and decent in Blue)
No it's not windy at all.
I thought I said I hate boot packing
Especially when it's knee deep.
Welcome to the top Scott, now don’t slip
Once again it's powder
I hope this doesn’t cliff out
Friday I got my feel of Steep skiing so Saturday I would have to get my feel of a exxxtreme Cardio.
What to do?????
The Flett Glacier Headwall on the North Side of Mt Rainier.
Everyone said I was crazy to pull it off in one day so it looks like I’m going solo.
With everyone on the Southside of Rainier corn skiing who’s going to lap all this pow with me?
It was 24 miles roundtrip and over 8500 feet but man was it sick. (my line is right in the Center)
Spray Park and the Flett Glacier Headwall
And if the website wasn’t enough now you can track me in real time
Now let the spring touring season begin
Oh yeah Check out my super sweet Blog
I owe a special thanks to Prior, Will at Spark R&D, The Trew Crew, Black Diamond, Petzl, Frequency, Jetboil and Burton.Last edited by Kyle Miller; 03-22-2010 at 08:00 PM.
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03-22-2010, 07:11 PM #2
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Great pics looks like fun
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03-22-2010, 07:13 PM #3
Is you Geeked up?
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spring sucks
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03-22-2010, 07:14 PM #4
Because I'm a caveman....
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Nice! Looking forward to the Spring Washington pics. Hope we can reciprocate down here in the Sierra.
Got at least 4 more months of skiing to go...
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03-22-2010, 07:27 PM #5
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ummm epic thread to say the least. Way to do work!
Originally Posted by leroy jenkins
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03-22-2010, 07:32 PM #6
skins miles for hardpack
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Wow. Lots of great shots in there Kyle, really nice. Love the terrain choices as well.
Good luck this spring, thanks for sharing the stoke!"The skis just popped me up out of the snow and I went screaming down the hill on a high better than any heroin junkie." She Ra
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03-22-2010, 07:41 PM #7
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Um yeah... damn, that's impressive. You sir are badass! Originally Posted by Kyle Miller
Awesome pics, bring it on spring!
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03-22-2010, 07:43 PM #8
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Absolute sickness...not as sick as P!nk Poles, but siiiiick
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03-22-2010, 07:53 PM #9
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thanks for the stoke, looks great up there
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03-22-2010, 08:01 PM #10
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Hey, I know that girl! Originally Posted by Kyle Miller
Sometimes we have been skinning
Thanks again for showing me around... very nice of you...
Looks like a great start to the spring touring season, Mr. Miller!
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03-22-2010, 08:05 PM #11
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Christ on a cracker man, that is some shit right there!Welcome to Johannesburg (our ascent in red and decent in Blue)
Looking forward to seeing what other crazy shit you have planned this year.
the-one-track-mind Originally Posted by DoWork
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03-22-2010, 08:48 PM #12
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A whole lot of win.
"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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03-22-2010, 09:05 PM #13
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And can I get uh AMEN from the congregation!
Unbelievable man, what incredible terrain, tours, photos, and effort. Gotta love the cynical people this year - missing some damn fun times for sure.
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03-22-2010, 10:17 PM #14
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That was sick. Way to rip with the single plank.
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03-22-2010, 10:23 PM #15
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damn looks like a blast! I need to make my way out to the Crystal area more next season
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03-22-2010, 10:54 PM #16
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Yep, worst season EVER, might as well start biking
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03-22-2010, 11:26 PM #17
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thanks for the booter at the top N. Twin Sister. We hit her up the day after you. Awesome turns.
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03-22-2010, 11:27 PM #18
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super stuff, Kyle. you got yourself a solid group of sponsors, all solid peeps.
let me know when you're in the C.O. area and we can hook upLet me lock in the system at Warp 2
Push it on into systematic overdrive
You know what to do
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03-23-2010, 08:46 AM #19
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can't wait to see what you have planned
I can't believe you are a rando racer because I look so much better in Lycra than you.
People who don't think the Earth is flat haven't skied Vail.
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03-23-2010, 09:15 AM #20
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Nice. Wa pass opens soon, BTW.
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03-23-2010, 09:32 AM #21
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Epics stuff right there, you live quite the life. thanks for all the ill pics
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03-23-2010, 09:56 AM #22
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Great stuff Kyle......get as much as you can because my barges need painting again soon!
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03-23-2010, 09:57 AM #23
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Oh RLY? care to share you intel? Originally Posted by plugboots
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03-23-2010, 01:50 PM #24
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Kyle, you are killing it this year! Thanks for sharing these stories!
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03-23-2010, 07:16 PM #25
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Hi all,
By this afternoon, the crew had the highway from the Silver Star gate (MP 171) to Lone Fir Campground (MP 166) cleared and widened. They had hoped to have a single cut through to Cutthroat Ridge (MP 168), but the 2nd snow blower that was supposed to join the effort today didn't show up. It's in the shop in Wenatchee because it wouldn't start. Repairs have been completed and it's headed for Twisp tomorrow, but won't be on site and working until late Wednesday or Thursday morning. Tomorrow, the crew is expecting to clear and widen all the way to Cutthroat #1 (the beginning of the avalanche zone) where the Avalanche crew will join them on Thursday morning (along with their snow cat/plow). If we don't have any more equipment or weather delays, they're hoping to clear the highway through the 12 Cutthroat Ridge avalanche chutes by Tuesday (which would be record time!). That would put them into the Spiral Gulch/Liberty Bell section sometime Wednesday. (We'll see...)
Don (Becker) says the weather was great today. After starting out cold (about 23 degrees at 7 a.m.) it turned sunny and got up to 50 degrees by 3 p.m.
Check out the pictures from day 1 on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wsdot/s...7623371473447/
Expect another update late Wednesday or early Thursday.
Jeff Adamson 509-667-2815 adamsoj@wsdot.wa.gov
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