The Redline Traverse

[LightRanger]

Somebody should repeat it.

This spring is the time to do it.

Discuss.

[AKbruin]

I'll discuss it if you tell me exactly what it is first. (Something about a traverse across the Eastern Sierra involving the Palisades and Evolution Loop?)

[LightRanger]

Fair. I was being deliberately cryptic for fun.

Here:
http://s208.photobucket.com/user/oth...?sort=3&page=1
http://www.earnyourturns.com/17796/p...erend-bardini/
http://www.backcountrytalk.earnyourt...dline-Traverse
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/th...opic_id=945437

[kidwoo]

I'mma get an instagram-based sponsorship network going and put together my own loop. Gonna call it the 'dark shaded spots of google earth terrain view traverse'


Then people will talk about the dark shaded spots of google earth terrain view traverse for years. Will it ever be repeated? Who cares. But it will be legend.


AK it's just a trip some guys did. There are some good pics in an old issue of powder with it. Best thing about the pics is the gear. And what used to constitute a normal snowpack.

[LightRanger]

"some guys" Heh.

[kidwoo]

Sorry. Some motherfucking LEGENDS OF THE MIGHTY SIERRA!!!




Feel better?


You should see if you can dig up those old powder mag pics. I saw them somewhere a few years ago. Wish I could remember where.

[LightRanger]

Only if you add an s to the end of Sierra.

[LightRanger]

Woo, I think the Powder photos are in that first link I posted above, no? Unless there was another article.

Tom Carter posted some photos in the Supertopo thread too, but the links are dead now.

Pretty sweet stuff. Not superhuman or anything, but cool.

[kidwoo]

That's it!

I saw that reprinted somewhere.....bugging me where now. It was a little more legible. Either way AK has his magnifying glass out right now and should have some pics of him and franz in a few weeks.

[El Chupacabra]

Wrong forum JONG?

[LightRanger]

Yeah, Franz flying out from the sea level and crushing it.

EC, that's a pretty bicycle.

[AKbruin]

I tried to skim through the articles to find the general route, but all I saw was that it was 200 miles. So, that's like 2-3 weeks? Honestly, that's too much for me both as an employed person with a family and as someone who enjoys a hot spring, warm meal, and motel bedroom at the end of a day. The Evolution Loop sure is tempting this year though.

(Incidentally, I saw photos that the roof at the Shiloh Inn in ML had broke in January under the snow load. But last weekend I noted that it appeared to be open for business. Whew!)

[bodywhomper]

Pretty sweet stuff. Not superhuman or anything, but cool.

pretty damn close, though.

[kidwoo]

(Incidentally, I saw photos that the roof at the Shiloh Inn in ML had broke in January under the snow load. But last weekend I noted that it appeared to be open for business. Whew!)

Haha! I was there right after that happened. New owners BTW. Kittridge and some investors. Keep in touch. I've got a lot more time down there coming up.

[LightRanger]

From what Mike D and I gather from our discussions offline, it looks like they may not have done it all in one go either. Hard to tell.

Given the coverage in the far south, I'm thinking of a couple of objectives that might be better to do this year rather than in the future. Whereas for the Evolution Loop, coverage hasn't been as bad in that area, even in the drought years.

[LightRanger]

pretty damn close, though.

I'm sure curious how much gnarly climbing was involved. The quote from Bard: "The first time Mount Russell was used as a pass." From NF of Whitney to NF of Russell with skis... like, how?

[teledad]

https://www.wildsnow.com/22634/red-l...e-trip-report/

[Greydon Clark]

This is bad ass...

You can’t ski the Sierra in a big year without lusting after the famous steep couloirs. In looking back through my journal, I count 25 proper ski lines. Most of them were steep, most were rock-walled, and most had excellent snow. All were north facing, all held wintry snow (until the very end. The Bloody Couloir was a corn run for my final ski descent). Only once did I climb what I skied. Every other ski run was done “top down” with the overnight pack, an “ever forward” mantra, and an educated guess as to conditions and route-finding.

[kidwoo]

I kinda think it would drive me nuts to ski all those lines with a bunch of overnight shit on my back. At least I'd have a good mental list of 'worth going back to' with less stuff.

Props though. Burly walk for sure.


Everybody seems all hot and bothered by who did what and when, but porter's trip looks like a much bigger deal than the orginal piece together. Imma call it the Porter Redline.

[teledad]

Not to mention doing it on skimo race gear (PDG boots and skis). Though I guess that's way better than Bard's Karhus with 3 pins.

[Greydon Clark]

Everybody seems all hot and bothered by who did what and when, but porter's trip looks like a much bigger deal than the orginal piece together. Imma call it the Porter Redline.

It only took 35 years for someone to do it in one push...

[bodywhomper]

That's great! Doesn't jed occasionally post here. I thought he lived in bishop....

[whatsupdoc]

goddamn, that's impressive!

[kidwoo]

It only took 35 years for someone to do it in one push...

Only one can emerge in a generation who truly gives a shit enough

[jeddy]

Thanks all! Skiing with the overnight pack isn't that bad. You don't really need to carry much in the Sierra. My pack, at its heaviest, wasn't much more than most carry to ski the GT in-a-day, for instance.

High praise from kidwoo. But there's always a higher order of style to aspire to.

I did live in Bishop. 2002-2014. Teton Valley, ID based now.

I'd say that conditions are the greatest limiting factor. I got lucky. Sounds like there hasn't been a two-week-plus period of good weather since I wrapped up.