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Speaking of:
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Looking to get some beta on Tioga pass and the Tuolumne ski hut. Anyone been up the pass? How sketchy is it between Warren Fork and Ellery? Is the ski hut still unlocked after the rangers leave? Thanks
Any recent beta on Rock Creek Road?
Skied pinner yesterday. Climbed up the couloir, on top at 8 30. Huge runnel in the middle, pretty much the entire could except for the top 1000 ft. Choke is burned out, mashed for a couple of interesting moves on wet granite, even better with crampons up, and ski boots on the way down.
Couloir skied like it had big bumps. Not the best conditions, made worse by forgetting the skins and ski crampons on the apron, which made for an extra hour of hiking back.
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Temps are brutal I’ve given up on anything except north to west and there ready early, I dropped a NW line today at 10:15 and I could have been earlier, didn’t need crampons at all booting up
Anyone been up Tuttle Creek toward Langley who knows conditions and how hard it is to get past avy debris low in the canyon?
^^awesome.
Echo the sentiment that the east side has been almost too hot and it’s tough to get on anything that isn’t NNW facing.
On that note, we tried to do Pete’s dream yesterday and it was WAY too warm and loose at the top. Didn’t seem like it got any re-freeze and gets a lot more sun than the aspect would have one assume. We consoled ourselves with the couloir lookers left of Carson bowl.
Recognizing warm temps and thunderstorms were conspiring against us this weekend, we decided to check out fern grotto this morning. Didn’t seem like it got a re-freeze last night but the lower 2/3rds were nice.
Good times.
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I drove up there after dinner tonight. It’s gated 5 1/2 miles from 395. If it doesn’t look like a threat of thunderstorms that have rolled in shortly after noon the last two days I might ride my bike up the road after skiing tomorrow seems like you could go a long ways
Here is Rock Creek Canyon from top of Wheeler Crest on Friday. Road looks plowed beyond Rock Creek Lake, seems like they could at least open to pack station.
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Le Tits stoke all! Le Sierra is huge.
I skied it late April, we walked to about 7800, from there the debris provided coverage that was helpful getting up (and down) for a few hundred feet until we worked our way to the north side of the creek and up a snow covered slope. That slope was getting thin at that time.
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Thanks TahoeBC and enlosandes
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Was house sitting in Crowley lake for a few days. Seemed too hot for solar aspects and decided I should probably go with something with north in it.
Putting my scope on Esha as I drove into town it looked loaded and figured Esha would be a good first choice to familiarize my self to the area as I’ve never skied around here. guy from Vegas who topped out at the same time as me, wife’s pole broke on the way up. He gave one of his poles to his wife who skied down and climbed the rest and skied down with only one pole.
https://youtu.be/Tc6KPKPXbjM
While on top of Esha I transitioned very quickly as it was time to ski, took a few quick summit photos. Looking at them that evening a solar line off Mount Aggie caught my eye, was solar but figured I try a early start and if it didn’t work out I’d go for the NW wine glass coolie if it looked clean. I wasn’t able to top out on Aggie and pulled the plug at 8:15 due to it being too hot and post holing deeply. It did give me a view into another NW line off Esha that looked shiny and decided to try it out. Ended up with 7200 feet of vert by the time I got back to the car.
https://youtu.be/uKzJWI4eWhY
While making my way back to the car the previous day I got a good look into wine glass with the sun on it. Frankly it looked a bit junky to me besides getting a bunch of traffic. Another line near it caught my eye so I went to explore it, glad I did!
https://youtu.be/vNEOMxjL5Yg
While on Aggie a face really caught my eye, I guess it could be considered part of the Baldwin cirque. So yesterday I decided to go get it.
https://youtu.be/vou4hDKzQ2A
Last night my friends decided to come back today, so I figured I’d get one more ski in this morning but woke up with no energy left and I can’t even remember the last day I didn’t ski, so pulled the plug and drove back to Tahoe today, cool zone I’d like to explore more for sure
TahoeBC, careful, you might have to change your username... :)
Say TahoeBC - how far were you able to drive up the road toward Esha?
Just to the camp ground with the funny coverings over them. Just beyond that was a big snow bank impossible for vehicles but a short walk over it. I was taking my bike over it and could cut off 2.2 miles of walking round trip to the corral. Maybe in a week it will be passable. Still a snow bridge just pass the corral at the campground over the stream that’s running pretty fast but with these temps who knows how long it will last
Pretty tripping but there’s grass hoppers all over the mountains up there, guessing wind blew them up?
Yesterday I saw one in the snow at 11,000 feet
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A couple of beta pics.
Emerson is still super fat. Hiked up the moraine from bishop park campground then all snow for the rest of the approach.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...1df99994b1.jpgCheckered demon probably won’t last until next weekend unless you are willing to use snow blades.
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Baldwin and S aspects in McGee creekhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...a8a1cca92d.jpg
Plenty of company to be had in wineglass but so far the skier traffic seems to have done more to smooth out suncups than add moguls.
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I noticed the same a couple weeks ago on Tinemaha. They were up to probably around 11k’ as well. I was similarly quite surprised
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Here to leech some info as a non-social media user - any portion of the following would be hugely apprediated:
- how much dirt walking to hulk?
- sounded upthread like vbowl was a half mile of dirt walking week ago- anyone been thereabouts or elsewhere off power plant rd more recently?
- buddy said there's a big plow berm just out of town on Sherwin creek rd. What about coming from 395?
FYI, Rock Creek road now open to Pack Station at 10,000'
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Anyone been out to Red Slate lately? Given the recent transition to warmer condtions, I wondered if that sheltered N aspect is softening by midday.
The lower elevation norths (mini mo) did soften on Saturday around 1030/11. had perfect temps for a good overnight freeze tho.
good trail around the lake and travel looked relatively easy further up the canyon
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Pinner still goes with two smallish downclimbs
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Ryan Soares just did the Sierra High Route (Shepherd Pass trailhead to Sequoia Wolverton trailhead) in 17:18, beating his own time from a couple of years ago (which beat my own SHR-in-a-day time from 2005).
https://snowbrains.com/trip-report-f...-high-route-ca
yeah good stuff
Skied Gutter (much to my surprise and delight) on Saturday. Continuous snow started fairly low on v bowl. The lower more east/south facing part of third pillar chute was already quite soft by the time I got there at 6:45am. The top was very, very firm (front point pen only).
Put in a camp at Sam Mack meadow Saturday afternoon. Kind of awkward/annoying skinning/booting after the ranger hut. Mostly nice dirt before that.
Skied Sill L couloir, north couloir and U-notch Sunday. L couloir very soft for booting by 10:30am but skied perfect. North couloir would have been great if I waited but was still fairly firm (not bad, just not perfect yet) when I dropped at 1:15. U-notch was basically as good as you can hope for when I dropped at 2:30. Some perfect corn, some corn on ice nuggets.
Skied thunderbolt N couloir and something I’m calling the central couloir. Top of N couloir was perfect at 10am (it’s clocked east and gets sun from sunrise), lower bit was still firm (is clocked more north and in the shade until around 9am). Central couloir was really nice at the top when I dropped at just after noon, very frozen in the choke and grippy firm in the bottom.
What a weekend!!
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Heading to the Sierra. Anyone interested in partnering sometime next two weeks? Have experience touring everywhere from Eastside to San Jacinto to Shasta and Lassen to Cottonwood Canyons, and Yellowstone, etc. Avy savvy and carefully thought out.