Lassen / Shasta Conditions Anyone?

[thefrush]

Awesome stuff Jeb, thanks for sharing and welcome to the forum.

[Jeb McHardman]

Awesome stuff Jeb, thanks for sharing and welcome to the forum.

Thanks! Hoping the next few weeks bring some new snow and open up some more terrain. Lassen in the winter is a special place.

[Lee Murian]

Gettin there

[TurxSki]

Cool NWS pic from today

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[~mikey b]

the park was fun yesterday

[frorider]

Thx for the pics. Hope your camping rig is working out well.

[~mikey b]

it is

[jorion]

Fun couple of days meadow-skipping and mini-golfing in the Park.

[frorider]

Looking decent. :thumbs up:

[~mikey b]

forecast has me rolling north today

[jorion]

Heading back that way tomorrow to ski Saturday. Say hello if you see a dude in brown pants and orange boots.

[~mikey b]

might be a few of us there

[claymond]

Warm windy day. This south face skied good at 1030ish.

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[~mikey b]

fun day out there

busy

I completely bonked out in the world today - had a skin drama that turned into ridiculous thrutching and then my energy level completely crashed - I was able to recognize it and ski back to the lot, but I haven’t had that happen in a long time and I don’t like it - not enough food and water I guess

[~mikey b]

[jorion]

If you were wondering if it’s an optimal time to ski the proper peak, the answer is, not really haha! Probably would’ve been helpful to have parked the shuttle car at loomis in daylight to check out what that side of the peak looks like at the moment.

Skied a more sheltered line above treeline on the way though, and that was quite good:





Really nice weather:



Until you topped out and got hit with insane northeast winds that I did not see in the forecast:



“So uh, where can we ski off this thing that has snow and is at least somewhat wind-sheltered?”



Not a lot of snow on the north side, but once we gingerly sidestepped through a chute covered by an old ice crust a slab had slid off of, then through a half-covered scree field, the skiing was actually pretty good.





North-facing trees down lower were unsurprisingly money. Too bad there’s not closer winter access to that side.

Fun adventure. probably would’ve skied the ample lower hanging fruit if I had known then what I know now, but I definitely don’t regret it.

The south lot seemed way more crowded this weekend. As we were leaving there was even a group (family?) complete with an awning, fire circle and guitar. It looked like something out of an REI catalog.

[SchralphMacchio]

Any of you guys out there this last weekend see this fucker on that climber’s right ridge in the East Bowl, right of where the phallus used to be? Spooky to see that on such a sun exposed face, it must have been a cold early December up there.

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[jorion]

Damn, that’s gnarly, thanks for that. I’m not sure how we didn’t spot a slide that big yesterday on the way up. Not planning to ski it, we didn’t give that bowl more than a few glances, but seems like it should have been pretty obvious.

We also were along the summer trail at 9500’ and didn’t spot their pit. I suppose they could’ve came after us but we weren’t terribly early to reach the summit.

[Westmeister]

Lassen sucks. The Peak is off limits for camping. (Think shits on Shasta... ahhhh, such pure stream water). Best skiing is in the NPS land surrounding, anyone hit Chaos Crags lately, ever? Switch take off of Crescent Moon? Halstead. There I said it. ! David Beck called it, and still is IMHE, snowiest spot in CA. Flowing Alpy ripped the one chair hill, took it out and sold to Midwest after low tide winters. '92-'93 year hit next. If you are old enough, well. and yes a dpps

[eplanajr]

If you were wondering if it’s an optimal time to ski the proper peak, the answer is, not really haha! Probably would’ve been helpful to have parked the shuttle car at loomis in daylight to check out what that side of the peak looks like at the moment..
. It looked like something out of an REI catalog.

Thanks for that!

[Lee Murian]

High and dry in Far Nor Cal for a spell. January corn can be tasty.

[frorider]

Username checks out

[Mokomahonah]

Tasty corn indeed...

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[Lee Murian]

Mt Shasta update; 8” cold smoke today over firm base with many obstacles.

In preparation of the upcoming AR event Siskiyou Co is closing Everett Highway and Castle Lake road by noon tomorrow, Tuesday January 26. Depending on storm totals, might be awhile before reopening

[gimpy]

Hope you guys get back on track up there as well lee++++++