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Thread: Eastside Conditions Thread
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04-19-2019, 12:09 AM #1501Registered User
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04-19-2019, 11:15 PM #1504Registered User
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F YEAH!!!
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AKB: +1 on 30 m rope as sufficient for Liberty. A fun line. If Franz is feeling frisky, he can try and ski it on belay
Not sure what the anchor setup is up there these days; maybe also bring a long sling or two and a leaver biner.
Love the LPP line!
MrHankey: I feel ya on the tire situation! Ca. 2011 I had six total people and all our overnight crap in my 04 Taco shuttling up Tuttle Creek Road since our homie's Camry didn't make it far LOL. After a sweet shred of Langley, we were rollin down the hill, things felt extra squishy all of a sudden so drunk co-pilot looks out and yells FLAT! Brand spankin' new ATs (sheeeeit), but probably well over payload.
Ottime: I think you are spot on.
With such good ski conditions it was tough to attend bunch of work meetings and get scienced out in Ventura and on the water at Scripps (about as nice of places as you can ask to have to work LOL), but the flowers and trail running were truly all-time. Lots of skiing to do now!
Poppin' on another of the State's rain shadow and tectonically-active regions.
damn.
Wife and I scored glorious corn above Indy on the drive back from La Jolla. Comparing to photos from before I left, a lot of low elevation snow has melted! Crazy.
Old stoke, but worth sharing. A couple weeks ago, we skied the Soda Shaq, previously thought to be imaginary and only had one mandatory surprise ice cliff
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04-21-2019, 03:18 PM #1505
Just skied a few days on the E side. Pics to come.
Some beta for those who care:
Was able to get to the N side of Emerson via bishop bowl with minimal dirt walking but that won’t last long. Only a few veins of snow leading down from the first moraine that will go quickly.
June Lake loop is fully open.
VA lakes is good to go as far as skiers are concerned. Basically plowed just shy of the end of the road.
Got blocked by snow on Green Creek Rd 4.3 miles from 395. Still looked like a ways to go.
Did Excelsior via the VA lakes-Lundy shuttle. The S facing stuff in Lundy is well covered. Skied all the way to the valley from Burro Lake. The road out had only a small amount of dry walking. If you ever wanted to do this tour now’s the time.
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04-21-2019, 06:33 PM #1506
Anyone know what access is currently like at McGee Creek?
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04-21-2019, 08:49 PM #1507
Somethingclever: I could be wrong, think you’re gonna start close to 395 unless they’ve plowed it recently.
Yesterday: Made my third attempt at Z on Wood and got my third failure. Everything was fine until we got to the summit and the weather immediately turned. Constant 40-50 mph winds, snow, and, the deal breaker, no visibility on the line. So we blindly descended the east face in white nothingness and crusty sastrugi until minimal visibility returned.
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04-21-2019, 09:36 PM #1508
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04-21-2019, 10:25 PM #1509
Yea that's the way it looked going through a few days ago. Should have taken a minute to check to see if they may have plowed
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04-22-2019, 10:27 AM #1510
Whoa! I missed Mr. Hankey's Tinemaha slide experience the first time around. Everyone on this page should read his very excellent write-up.
This is super sobering. I mainly think of wetslides as being slow-moving annoyances that are mostly dangerous where there is exposure or a terrain trap. I wouldn't have expected the kind of slide Mr. Hankey describes, which sounds terrifying, at the time and place it happened. Thanks for the write up, man. It was really well done and illuminating.
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04-22-2019, 10:34 AM #1511
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04-22-2019, 10:59 AM #1512
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04-22-2019, 12:29 PM #1513
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04-22-2019, 12:42 PM #1515
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04-22-2019, 12:46 PM #1516
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04-22-2019, 12:50 PM #1517
Day 3 we did Mendenhall on Laurel. It was pretty casual in present conditions. No ice, no real crux. The top 3/4 was good corn. Bottom 1/4 was deep, wet mank as the refreeze was pretty poor the night before. Fantastic day.
Sunrise at Convict Lake:
franzklammer booting at dawn:
Booting:
AKbruin on the summit ridge:
franzklammer nearing the top:
Last edited by whatsupdoc; 04-22-2019 at 01:31 PM.
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04-22-2019, 12:57 PM #1518
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04-22-2019, 01:01 PM #1519
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04-22-2019, 01:08 PM #1520
Day 4 we attempted the Z couloir on Mt. Wood. We climbed the east face. A storm was brewing by the time we got up to the top. Upon arrival at the entrance the visibility was zero, winds were howling, and it was snowing. We bailed and skied the E face down. The top 2000' was character-building refrozen breakable crust and sastrugi in a whiteout. We actually got some decent turns in the mid elevations.
AKbruin on the skin track:
Skinning with Carson Peak in the background:
franzklammer skinning on Mt. Wood:
franzklammer booting in the sunshine:
AKbruin leading the booter:
At the top of Z in poor conditions:
Walking back to the east face in a whiteout:
Winds were howling up on the ridge:
No skiing pics as I was just focusing on getting down in 1 piece.
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04-22-2019, 01:18 PM #1521
Our last day we did Excelsior via a Virginia Lakes to Lundy car shuttle. Conditions were primo. Surprisingly great shallow pow down from the summit and amazing corn down into Lundy from Burro Lake. The views from Excelsior are stunning. Fantastic day.
Skinning at sunrise:
franzklammer and AKbruin enjoying the views:
Morning views:
Excelsior peaking out above the ridge. We skied the line looker's left from the summit:
Akbruin eyeing Virginia Peak:
Skinning to Excelsior:
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04-22-2019, 01:22 PM #1522
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04-22-2019, 01:24 PM #1523Rod9301
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Doc, great turns, sounds like great conditions
What day did you ski Emerson?
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