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05-25-2020, 01:05 PM #1501
Thanks for the info T. Had no idea Coombs had skied it. Looks like Stephen Koch boarded the R gully in '93.
Pulled from alpenglow:
"Jan 1998, p. 18, Coombs, Doug, "Hood: Commitment on the NE Face"
In late spring, 1997, the author skied the southerly of two couloirs on the NE face of Mt Hood. These couloirs are just north of the Cooper Spur route. The northerly chute was descended on snowboard five years earlier by Steve Koch. The author climbed to the summit from Timberline and kept in touch with a friend on the Cloud Cap side by radio. After a few hundred feet of turns at the top of the couloir, he encountered a sun crust and exchanged his ski poles for an ice axe. He sidestepped narrow ramps to pass two rock bands, then switched back to ski poles to ski the central portion of the couloir to a final rock step with 40-foot ice gully. Here he placed a rappel anchor to inspect the gully. Concluding that he could straight-run the gully, he climbed back up and pulled the anchor. While sidestepping back down with ice axe in hand, his skis scaped through to ice. He let go of his ice axe, schussed the ice gully, and made a high speed turn lower to stop. He switched to crampons to climb up and retrieve his ice axe, then completed the descent on skis, which required a ten-foot jump over the bergshrund. He called the route a "ski descent not a ski run.""
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05-25-2020, 03:34 PM #1502_______________________________________________
"Strapping myself to a sitski built with 30lb of metal and fibreglass then trying to water ski in it sounds like a stupid idea to me.
I'll be there." ... Andy Campbell
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05-25-2020, 08:36 PM #1503Registered User
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05-25-2020, 08:41 PM #1504
has the ticket process at timberline worked out its kinks yet? i'm thinking we might see a lot of this approach at the resorts next winter..... at the beginning of the season at least.
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05-25-2020, 10:48 PM #1505
Only time I've been to the north side of Mt Hood, my friend Cyril and I skied Cooper Spur. The Sandy Headwall and Sunshine Route have always interested me. It would be fun to look at the other lines being discussed if conditions seemed right.
One month later edit: it turns out I *have* skied the Sandy Glacier Headwall, just didn't remember. But haven't skied NF gullies or Elliot HW!Last edited by Sky_Shoe; 06-25-2020 at 09:58 AM.
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05-26-2020, 03:27 PM #1506_______________________________________________
"Strapping myself to a sitski built with 30lb of metal and fibreglass then trying to water ski in it sounds like a stupid idea to me.
I'll be there." ... Andy Campbell
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05-26-2020, 06:28 PM #1507
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05-26-2020, 10:37 PM #1508Head down, push foreword
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Sylvain Saudan was the first to ski Hood.
Quick google gave me this. I recall reading a much more detailed description I’ll try to find it.
In 1970, he flew by helicopter to the summit of the Eiger and skied the north-west face. The following year, he was invited to North America to tackle a couloir on Mount Hood, Oregon, that had never even been climbed. Again he used a helicopter to access the slope, but a couple of wrong turns meant it was almost dark when he made it down to the group of journalists gathered below.
Edit- much better piece that has pics of his line and details.
https://www.oregonlive.com/travel/2009/11/first_descents_hes_boldly_skie.html
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05-26-2020, 10:41 PM #1509Registered User
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05-27-2020, 12:57 AM #1510
Sudan was the first to ski the Wy'east face/NC headwall. Hjalmar Hvam, Andre Roch, Arne Stene skied from the summit in '31.
In the Cascade Ski Club's 1931 yearbook, Hvam wrote that they sidestepped all the way up the final chute. The author writes: "After resting in the lee of the fire lookout cabin, they skied back along the summit ridge to the top of the chute and sidestepped back down that pitch to where they resumed regular turns, occasionally side-slipping for safety. The nearly 1,000-foot steep chute, just west of the Crater Rock saddle, has been the scene of fatal falls."
http://www.alpenglow.org/ski-history...n-2009-dec-19aLast edited by river59; 05-27-2020 at 01:18 AM.
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05-27-2020, 01:15 AM #1511
On that same trip, the three also set a RT record from Portland to summit and back. Probably while eating sausage, drinking only whiskey, and chain-smoking.
"On April 26, 1931, Hjalmar Hvam and Arne Stene of the Cascade Ski Club, with Andre Roch, set a round-trip speed record from Portland to the summit of Mt Hood, using skis. They left 82nd and SE Division at 6:03 am and returned at 2:52 pm, for a total of 8 hours, 49 minutes. They put on skis halfway from Government Camp to timberline and made a complete ascent and descent on skis, probably the first in history, according to the author."
http://www.alpenglow.org/ski-history...auer-1975.html
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05-27-2020, 09:28 AM #1512Head down, push foreword
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Nice! Thanks for that. Crazy that many sites and news stories have Sudan as the first descent.
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05-27-2020, 10:43 AM #1513
IKR! I don't know what sounds sketchier. Sideslipping on huge heavy "skees" from the summit in leather boots, or dropping into the NC headwall on Hart 210s after a huge storm cycle! Both are pretty wild imo.
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05-27-2020, 11:46 AM #1514
2019-20 - Oregon - it never snows here and when it does, it sucks
Don’t forget that Sudan skied down the wrong chute first and had to climb back out... I think he dropped into the hanging snowfield above black spider?
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05-27-2020, 10:28 PM #1515Registered User
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Anybody climbing Hood on Friday? Warmish temps, clear skies, and it's been a week since last precip. I was considering heading up and checking snow conditions up to the Hog, if the snow is feeling good, think about summiting. Freezing level's at about 13k though until Saturday.
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05-28-2020, 12:10 PM #1516Registered User
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Stay home, asshole.....
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05-28-2020, 09:01 PM #1517
Pulled the trigger on a Meadows all access pass today. Highly optimistic on a ski season happening this winter
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05-29-2020, 06:51 AM #1518
And it will, got a pair of High Societys for $149.
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05-29-2020, 09:44 AM #1519
mt hood natl forest opening back up today
https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/mthoo...d=FSEPRD744956
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05-29-2020, 06:45 PM #1520
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05-29-2020, 07:26 PM #1521
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05-29-2020, 08:48 PM #1522
And I told you before, NOBODY is gonna think a woman with a Hulk Hogan ‘stache is attractive.
Good thing we will probably have to wear masks at MtB this season.
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05-29-2020, 09:07 PM #1523
These things take time br♡. I will still be driving the Pink Panther so there's that.
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05-29-2020, 09:46 PM #1524
Travel to the Wy'east face just got a little less complicated. Meadows just rescinded their "no uphill travel" policy.
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05-29-2020, 09:49 PM #1525
Yesterday was beautiful, but a little overcooked. Spotted a couple of very old snowmobile tracks waaaayyy inside the wilderness near Barrett Spur.
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