TR: Baker didn't suck this weekend (pics/vid)

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03-13-2006, 01:28 PM
bigtrubs

TR: Baker didn't suck this weekend (pics/vid)

I got my first taste of the Mt. Baker backcountry this weekend. I skied friday-sunday and I think had the most epic weekend of my life!

Friday: Hiked the Shuksan arm all the way over to Safety Ridge and ripped down it, omigosh- I've skied powder a LOT before in Whistler, Fernie, Lake Louise, Golden etc but skiing at Baker was a totally different experience. The line I took was down the end of the ridge inbetween these cool spiney things, got going so fast I hardly knew what to do with myself! Can't wait to do more Baker b/c this season and next! As I said in my last Baker TR, I am in LOVE with the place!

The boys kept making fun of me, however, because they're amazed that I can shred down steep chunder at Whis but a fresh steep pow face scares the crap out of me!

Saturday: Hiked Blueberry Chutes twice and finished with a run down Elf Chutes. Fun times...

The Bakerboy, MtBakerSkier and Hop posse trekking up to the chimney to drop that cornice up there:
http://www.biglines.com/photos/norma...ines_54959.jpg

What we hiked: (to the highest roller on skier's right of the peak)
http://www.biglines.com/photos/norma...ines_54964.jpg

Troy ripping down, not wanting to spend much time beneath that gargantuan cornice, I chose to ski far skiers left of that more toward the Blueberry chutes:
http://www.biglines.com/photos/norma...ines_54960.jpg

About to lose it....
http://www.biglines.com/photos/norma...ines_54961.jpg

And finally:
http://www.biglines.com/photos/norma...ines_54963.jpg

Kevan rippin up Elf Chutes at the end of the day:
http://www.biglines.com/photos/norma...ines_54965.jpg

Footage from Saturday, (the cameraman has been fired, he missed the top half of my line!)
You probably won't be able to watch this using Firefox, so use Internet Explorer or Safari please. Updated Quicktime helps too. Enjoy:
http://media.putfile.com/Baker-Mar-9-12

Sunday: Family fun day with my buddy's parents and bro, ran into Heimer in the lodge and saw Hop a few times. At the end of the day Hop showed us a SICK photo of Heim dropping a large sized cornice, beauty. Hop feel free to hijack this thread and add some photos.

To finish the day off, Kevan and I hiked the Arm again and dropped a nice steep face that kind of faces the Beast (before the beast) and had some sweeeet turns, except that the visiblity dropped to um.... nothing by the time we got to the top. Skiing by Braille = awesome. Eventually we'll have some photos of that line as well as some extreme tandem stinkbugging in the mini park.

Overall an unforgettable weekend, except for the 1hr long wait at the Cdn border where I found out that Mr. Teddy 'Ticker' Knape had passed away. Love you Teddy.
03-13-2006, 01:59 PM
klar

nice pictures
nice video
love that song
i'm so jealous now.
03-13-2006, 02:06 PM
addict

Nice pics, couldn't see the vid, but it may be my quicktime...
03-13-2006, 02:27 PM
BakerBunny

Yes, Baker did not suck Sunday!!

There are still north facing pow slopes ...:biggrin:
http://media.admcs.wwu.edu/video/tes...rmigan-nw2.jpg
03-13-2006, 02:38 PM
grskier

Nice shots...

I'm guessing you guys have a nice snowpack this year.
03-13-2006, 02:39 PM
Atrain505

Looks like fun.
And what's this about Teddy?...never mind just saw the thread.
So sorry, he was a great and super nice guy.
RIP.

Back to the stoke...Baker is awesome.
03-13-2006, 02:40 PM
Trackhead

A thing of beauty, a skin track.
http://www.biglines.com/photos/norma...ines_54959.jpg
03-13-2006, 02:51 PM
Wysplit_ride

beautiful pics for sure!
03-13-2006, 02:53 PM
soul_skier

nice, makes me hate where i am, it rained to the top of stowe today
03-13-2006, 03:11 PM
fiddler

I heard you all on the radio all day yesterday. I had a blast inbounds but you really scored in the BC.
Great pics.
By the way I couldn't get video on firefox or IE. I guess I'll try to update QT and see if that works.
03-13-2006, 05:11 PM
subtle plague

nice video.
03-13-2006, 05:39 PM
Dromond

That. Place. Looks. So. Fucking. Sick.

PNW maggots got it good eh? :p
03-13-2006, 05:44 PM
Squirrel99

awesome pics! gotta love Baker http://tetongravity.com/ubb/icons/icon14.gif
03-13-2006, 05:47 PM
bigtrubs

Thanks for all the props! Funny that a little 2.0 megapixel camera (with duct tape holding the battery compartment shut, I might add...) can take some semi-decent photos!

Weapon of choice:
http://www.ultraline.ru/images/photo...olpix-2100.jpg
03-13-2006, 05:49 PM
bio-smear

For the plugin-challenged:

http://upload3.putfile.com/videos/7111441656.mov

Nice vid, but yeah you need slap that camera operator.
03-13-2006, 09:18 PM
hop

Nice to meet you if only for a moment or three...
BTW that's not us in the skintrack because 1. the clothes are not radioactive glowing and 2. we're not sliding backwards on skis w/ 110+mm waists and skins <95mm wide

Yes, this weekend truly ruled. A writeup with pics to follow sometime at www.coreshot.com

FWIW the snow is still super duper über rad and we scored some nice untracked lines on Hemis this afternoon. Watch out for the sluffing though. :)
03-13-2006, 10:54 PM
bigtrubs

My bagel was tasty. Believe. Oh, I almost missed my ferry last night. I may venture down to Baker again before the season ends- are you going to be around next year?
03-14-2006, 12:16 AM
biggins

Brought some EC gaper love to Baker this past weekend. The most fun I've ever had on snow. Baker is unreal. And Galcier is an awfully nice place to "rest" with friends.

Trubs- super duper indeed.
03-14-2006, 02:37 AM
refried

spent most of the day saturday inbounds showing a friend some nice tree runs, but did get one ob run on sat., and one on sun. a great weekend to work on the goggle tan.
03-14-2006, 09:49 AM
ozzyfromkillington

thanks for the continued stoke. we fly in saturday and ski till the following saturday.
by the way it's done nothing but continously rain here for the last day and a half. now it's supposted to get cold.
Glad i stopped lurking and joined in teh fun
03-14-2006, 11:20 AM
grrrr

I'm so gaper - I didn't get OB all weekend - again. :nonono2:

And now we have a third maggot in the islands? What's with that?
03-14-2006, 01:59 PM
fiddler

Quote:

Originally Posted by grrrr

I'm so gaper - I didn't get OB all weekend - again. :nonono2:

And now we have a third maggot in the islands? What's with that?

You're all going to need a special Island Maggot ferry run soon. Island Maggot t-shirts? Are you all on San Juan?
So are you hanging with the ski school up by the Heather lodge? I'll stop by to say hi if I can find you.
03-14-2006, 04:24 PM
bigtrubs

Heh, my Island has 1 other mag, except he doesn't ski Whistler. How long is your San Juan ferry?
03-14-2006, 11:31 PM
rbtree

Great TR, Amy! Ain't the Baker bc simply the tastiest morsels under le soliel?!!

I was pining for Baker goodness all weekend, while at Alpy Sat, and Xtal Sunday, running two cameras the whole time, but still managed to find the goods.....TR's as yet unfinished.... the best stuff is all Fujchrome...lots of PowMag Cover Boy Wayne Grevey......who was "famous" long before Girlski was around.....
03-14-2006, 11:52 PM
hop

Quote:

Originally Posted by bigtrubs

My bagel was tasty. Believe. Oh, I almost missed my ferry last night. I may venture down to Baker again before the season ends- are you going to be around next year?

If you're talking to me then the answer is definitely maybe. :)
03-14-2006, 11:53 PM
fiddler

When I lived on San Juan Island it was about 1hr 50min from Friday Harbor to Anacortes but that was 30 yrs ago.
03-14-2006, 11:55 PM
bigtrubs

Quote:

Originally Posted by hop

If you're talking to me then the answer is definitely maybe. :)

I'm allergic to telemarkers but I may be willing to look past that. I'll have touring binders and skins and new skis (yay) and will no longer be allergic to steep untouched pow lines. We'll talk.
03-15-2006, 01:22 AM
mtbakerskier

Quote:

Originally Posted by bigtrubs

I'm allergic to telemarkers but I may be willing to look past that. I'll have touring binders and skins and new skis (yay) and will no longer be allergic to steep untouched pow lines. We'll talk.

Baker was ok, I didnt get off of the mountian and into the tap room beofre 6:30 each night, and managed to go threw 37 rolls of film in under 4 days. Not bad. BTW do not ever follow Hop off of a drop, as his ass first airs will leave a crater the size of texas.
03-15-2006, 01:52 AM
refried

Quote:

Originally Posted by grrrr

I'm so gaper - I didn't get OB all weekend - again. :nonono2:

And now we have a third maggot in the islands? What's with that?

I only have about a 45 minute ride from Lopez, but It's still a 3.5 to 4 hour trip, and the winter schedule really sucks, Sunday morning boat dosen't leave till 7:30.
03-15-2006, 03:37 PM
grrrr

Lopezian, eh? You know the rules - only one Lopezian allowed for every three San Juan residents. If you have any friends on Orcas, they can sign up though.
03-15-2006, 05:08 PM
White Chocolate

Quote:

Originally Posted by mtbakerskier

Not bad. BTW do not ever follow Hop off of a drop, as his ass first airs will leave a crater the size of texas.

I assume you know this because you watched someone follow hop off a drop. We all know that you don't huck.

Hey hoppy, are you skiing full time, or mooching off some new lady in town these days? If you want, i also got a great food poisoning tr that you may appreciate :D