Might come through next few days if good weather I'm traveling from Canada anyone want to ski something rad up high??
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Might come through next few days if good weather I'm traveling from Canada anyone want to ski something rad up high??
https://goo.gl/photos/VgA9hP8eYcxWkunT6
Shasta summit photosphere from today. Click on the link, then the image that loads, then pan and zoom away.
That is fucking cool!
You gotta teach me how to do that!
I like how only part of your leg shows up.
The Lemurians must have transported the rest of you...
Just got back from Shasta for the weekend - very windy conditions meant nobody in our group made it to the summit but got some nice corn on the way down!
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^^$ from Devastated Area yesterday (Lassen)
From Sunday (Shasta):
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^^These were pretty icy inside even at 2:30 in full sun
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^^But then the snow got good then great and stayed that way starting about 1500' above Helen
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^^A fat Wintun looking down toward Brewer
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^^Shastina
I really need to start bringing a digi cam again or lose the haze-imparting case on my phone.
nah it's cool it looks like old mountaineering photos. like an analog filter
http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/wwfeatures/w...3/p034q3wk.jpg
Amazing that there is actually even a bare spot at the Hotlum Hotel, I had expected that entire hump to get buried.Quote:
Originally Posted by B__
Ash Creek Butte looks like it has been serving up fun sled missions all winter long.
PS, nice line on that climber's left bowl on Lassen. Clearly your pup likes the most direct route!
Thanks, that L bowl was maybe the best snow I found all weekend (lower avy gulch was prime as well)
Total Shasta newb here, so sorry for the jong question: Any predictions on when the Brewer Creek TH will open, or the road open to within a reasonable striking distance? I assume when that happens the skiing will still be good?
I don't think it will go to the TH until mid-July. By then, the skiing will be good on at least 2000' of vert, usually between 13K and 11K. Nominally variable (or still frozen) above 13K and some combo of sticky/bumpy below 10-11K at that time of year. But I bet you will still be able to ski to 8500' through the end of July this year.
But you don't really need the road to go all the way, because by the time it goes all the way to the TH it's usually spotty skiing and walking back to the TH and also a good chance of getting lost. You really want the road to go up to any of the switchbacks nearest the creek around 6500' or so, because then you can literally get 8K of skiing back to the car.
Also, the skiing on Shasta is plenty good from other TH's right now (2nd hand reports from my friends, as I haven't been able to line up a weather window with available time the past couple of weeks). There's plenty more to ski than just Avy Gulch.
I've always wanted to ski the Hotlum-Wintun route for some reason so that's good beta on the road. Man, looking at maps that lower brewer creek area is a mish-mash of tangled roads, I can see how getting lost is a possibility.
Yeah, basically park at a good area where road switchbacks or intersects a drainage you can see on a topo, and then mark it in your GPS. I use cell phone GPS app, only turn it on and off when starting from Brewer or finishing up :)
I just came here to post this highly useful reference shot of Shastina:
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...w/IMG_2942.jpg
(... and to say, awesome shots B_!)
Skied Lassen from the devastated area today. Arrived to the lot Fri night to a mixture of hail and snow. Snow was really fun once off the top few hundred feet of hardpack/ice. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...0243a045fe.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...2c6cad1849.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...15c4c46771.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...afb82bfe43.jpg
I think I will be heading your way this weekend from Montana, hoping to ski Lassen and Shasta early next week!
Here are a few pics of the west/north sides of Shasta/Shastina from Monday. Damn it's looking fat up there!
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Gonna be at Shasta parking lot tomorrow if anyone wants to go!
holy moly those phots look incredible jimw
Brewer Creek will take a really long time to open anywhere substantially high. I was first up the road last year and had to clear tons of dead fall from the road.. (i was using the day to acclimate).Quote:
Originally Posted by zion zig zag
The snow will stop you until late June at least. I want to check out the little dome to the northwest memorial weekend.
Devestated coverage good, unplowed just past parking area, still 3' of snow on the road and I don't think rangers have any intent to plow it. So it's skins on from the car. A little bit of all-terrain skiing (e.g., giant bootcups, mush, dirt, logs) to "ski" back to the car, which is technically possible, but just as fine to cut out skiers right onto the road and just walk the last 400 yards back to the car.
Things are still very smooth all the way to 6800' elevation, though some skiers sent some pretty good wet slough debris into the skier's left steep bowl that might take a number of days to melt down and smooth back out.
Descended the NE face of Lassen at about 10am on Saturday and it skied great. Wouldn't have wanted to be much later, curious how it held up as the day went on. So much more snow than I've ever personally seen up there. Found a nice little sub drainage through the woods at the bottom that took us straight to the Devastated Area parking lot with minimal trickery required...
Were you one of the two freeheelers in the skier's left line? Or one of the two down the main gut?
I was the only splitter who topped out on Saturday, and I didn't top out until noon (I didn't pull into the lot until 1 AM on Saturday, and I was also the jackass who accidentally set off his car alarm at 630 AM). It was a bit ripe down the spine line (right near the bootpack to just skier's left off the nose of that rollover, I love that line) but plenty supportable. Despite the ripeness I could tell it was actually pretty well drained with clouds and breeze keeping things from getting too soupy, so I booted right back up and popped over the ridgeline traverse and dropped the far skiers right, totally untracked high speed 2nd lap at 3 PM. Other than a few wet sticky wind-drifts of not-yet-transitioned-to-coarse-enough-granules, it was very supportable and very fast shredding. That was a good run!
Ha! Heard about your car alarm, but we were already on our way up due to the dog that started barking at 5:10am at our end of the parking lot. We were the two on the skier's left line (only 1 freeheeler though, I locked them back down this season). Glad to hear it held up well enough on the correct aspect, good work going for another lap.
anybody ever ski ash creek butte northeast of shasta off military pass road?
Locals with sleds do it from what I gather. I've never done it. It always looks great while sipping booze during sunset at the Hotlum hotel, but it's only 1500' of vert and tops out at 8300, so I figure when it's good to go then 19 is gonna be under snow.
North Gate is open.
https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_...017&view_all=1
Schralph: That's all I'm going off too-- contemplating shasta's more compact petite sexy roommate from the brewer creek flank. Thinking "early enough in the right season and that could be a blast to ski"...well, the road to north point just opened a week ago and it looks like the snow line is close to 6k feet.
But I was worried about sledders tearing it apart.
BUT JIBMASTER DELIVERS!! (all photo credit to him)
https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4228/3...9a194478_z.jpg
Jong here again. Where is North Gate? Having trouble finding that online.
https://hikemtshasta.files.wordpress...-trail-map.jpg
Look for the most due north TH on that map.
drooling from tahoe... hoping to get lassen end of june and shasta early to mid july
at least I can ride chairlifts in the meantime
Lassen from Devastated was good again today; planning to ski from North Gate TH tomorrow (Saturday). Bunny is sure to be packed.
if you run into bright yellow pants tomorrow thru monday on the slopes above brewer creek say what's up
the butte was a great idea this long weekend. more pics to come when I can get it off my phone
http://i.imgur.com/hV5x0Fl.jpg
Skied Lassen on Sat from Devastated. Grade A+ Corn from the summit and skied to the road. Summited Shasta on Sunday and skied the Trinity chutes in more Grade A+ corn (12:30). Twas a good couple of days. There is still 8' of snow at BF.
The real question from the weekend is why don't more people ski ash creek butte
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it is proof that god loves us
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Nice view!
Taken yesterday
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Ooops double post
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^^ that's fantastic. did you access from north gate?
brewer creek TH is blocked due to snow 1/4 mile from the turnoff. it probably won't be accessible for another few weeks at least