Eastside: SLAYED!

Epic 5 days and photos, dude.

Living vicariously...

Wow, snow to the valley floor makes so much more skiing possible. Unbelievable contrast to last year when I was waiting for Tioga Pass to open to ski North Peak/Saddlebag Lakes area, and from a few years ago skiing Mt. Esha meant hiking half of that terrain. Impressive!!!!

hot damn!

so cool. I want to go

Basin from BELOW the Buttermilks...and Esha from the "town" of McGee?! Way to knock out some big approaches on the way to some solid lines.

and holy crapazoli is the pinner stacked!

That's some rad stuff right there.

Looks incredible down there! Nice work.

I thought AK's TR was impressive but this shows how you guys absolutely crushed. Nicely done.

Some shots from this past Wednesday.

LS Canyon



One for another day

In the belly

most excellent. is the hulk left apron its usual shitty looking self or is it filled in this year?
thanx for sharing

Looks spacey with all that rock.

Amazing how thin Little Slide still looks compared to everything else out of Twin Lakes.
That second to last pic is pretty cool looking. I'm guessing it wasn't powder from the photos.

Nice photos, somethingclever. I really want to do Jah Bless.

The apron is plenty filled in. Definitely not powder. Consistent chalk in the chute with highly variable wind affected snow down the canyon. The wind was blowing from the west and it was funneling directly up the canyon and up the couloir. The aspect is just subtly enough west that I think one would have to time it perfectly to catch it in powder.

i love how certain names stick to things here in internet land
we skied the main chute on kettle years ago and called it the irie chute (due to proximity with the regge pole, which sounds like reggae but is actually a physics thing i believe having nothing to do with rastafari)
it got posted on mikes board at backcountry.net and then some time after some cats went further up canyon and skied that line and called it the jah bless in line with the irie. everybody knows we/ they weren't the first to ski any of that stuff but its fun to assign names to unnamed things

Sweet Couloir skiing. Miss the 395

Originally Posted by somethingclever...

The aspect is just subtly enough west that I think one would have to time it perfectly to catch it in powder.

The key to the Hulk is hitting it after a closed low comes through with an easterly flow. I Iearned that about 7 years ago almost to the day.
This is why:

Whatsupdoc - SOLID 5 days on the Eastside and great pictures. Awesome work skiing pow to the car in the Buttermilks

Nice job on Hulk somethingclever

BG - I love that video (I feel like I remember you posting that video way back when). Anyways, sweet!

Wow. Something else I find interesting is that the other day there were two rock chokes at the top that required caution and they are buried in your video. Of course things fill in differently every year but its amazing with how much snow that has come down it wasn't covered. Again something with an easterly flow so the wind doesnt blow straight up the thing is probably the key there.

Originally Posted by BGnight

The key to the Hulk is hitting it after a closed low comes through with an easterly flow. I Iearned that about 7 years ago almost to the day.
This is why:

Nice, very nice.

Some solid stoke here. Nice work... but please knock it off and save some for the rest of us.

Oh yeah, and regarding this:

Originally Posted by AKbruin

6,000' of couloir lust right here:
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#boner

(BTW I wouldn't recommend actually looking up that hashtag on IG, you'll probably get some rather different pics...)

Looking for a partner for a day jaunt out of Tahoe on Wednesday if anyone has any interest chute me a PM.

Saturday

Former eastside slayer and now effete eastcoast ivory tower dweller, Franz Klammer, came over for the weekend. Somehow, when we get together, we always get fantastic conditions. Last year it was the Cross in hero snow and Punta Bardini in hip-deep pow. A few years ago we skied Bloody in crotch-deep pow and then did 9 straight days of eastside lines. This time around, we had wanted to try some spicy stuff around Dana and Convict Canyon, but basically all the Sierra saw some seriously weird weather last week: A huge rain event up to 11k or so, 150 mph ridge winds, and some pow dumpage. As the proud creators of small humans with shared genetics, we opted to stay safe and head to Red Mountain on Saturday.

It started off cloudy/foggy.


And then it got cloudier/foggier.


We tried to summit and got within 200 vertical feet, but we couldn't see more than 20' ahead. So we power-wedged our way back down our barely visible skin track until we hit treeline.


I was expecting Sierra cement. But it was actually about 12-18" of dry, dare-I-say "blower" on top of a rock-hard rain crust. It was unconsolidated snow and not slabby, but I wouldn't have felt comfortable on anything over 35 degrees.


I like this place.

Good call, avi reports have been pretty funky. Still looks like you found some fun turns if not radical lines.