Tahoe Backcountry Thread(Post your Info)

[T-Boz]

frog lake cliffs the ones just over the ridge opposite I-80? north facing bowl, right

[powdork]

carson pass today
obligatory round top shot


we skinned to here, and then it was all downhill.


the corn was just about perfect


almost all


the way to the river


hey, you said it was all downhill


there was lots more of this crap


we were gonna hit Life on the Edge and then head around back to the pass, but it was already 3 so we opted to drop in the quick way home (home pictured below).


she is a colorful rock


the first 3 turns were good winter snow, then it got firm so we headed over towards the stuff under moon couloir


the skies wavered between greybird and milkbird most of the day. then it turned completely overcast


back close to the pass, there was some winter snow in the trees.

[Sutter]

Nice work, looks pretty tasty up there!

[tahoegnar420]

Nice work, looks pretty tasty up there!

look how bare those ridges are. looks pretty bleak on da souph shore.

[Nuthon]

nice job hitting pipeline nuthon. we were gonna hit that today till the tour idea was sprouted. and now that i know there were tracks in it already i think we made the right choice. did you ever tag jobs???

Negative, always 2 days late & no babysitter when the right day arrives. looked at it on tues. evening and it looked pretty meager up there. Lots of pepper fields. might have to wait till next year.

[Nuthon]

the way to the river


hey, you said it was all downhill

Looks bright. lotsa sunscreen

[AKbruin]

Powdork: consistently getting it done. Well done, man.

[madturtle]

Thanks for the update powdork, was thinking about rt this weekend if I can kick this cold in time and get my skis mounted up.

From laste w/e...


Mrs MT skinning up w/ some pretty blue puddle below her


some legacy tracks, apparently it's been a little windy up on tallac


Jimmy McHUGE in Baby Cham on saturday


genavive getting into the cross


genavive lower in the cross


Mrs MT exiting the cross (yeah it's a little tilted)


from rubicon on sunday


craig riding the EB chutes on Monday in some pristine corn

then we cracked a couple PBRs at the bottom and headed up to some $$$ powder in the steep northfacing trees. Could barely we scored about another 1500' of untracked that long after the storm.

[VC]

Emerald Bay chutes were awesome today, perfect corn.

[kona12]

Didn't get out in the BC this weekend but snapped a few photos while at Sierra with my kiddies.

Pyramid look'n Tasty


South face of Ralston?.....one of the most sun blasted aspects out there


Also slipped under the ropes to take a quicky of Huckleberry. If any of these next storms pan out I may finally try and get back here for some slack...

[T-Boz]

anyone go in the backcountry today 3/14/08?

[prmulligan]

frog lake cliffs the ones just over the ridge opposite I-80? north facing bowl, right

Actually Frog Lake Cliffs is another north facing ridge just slightly (about a mile or so) northeast of Castle. Frog Lake is found on most maps of the area. The cliffs are the steep pillow lines and coulies that drop to the lake.

[PowStompper]

Here are a few from last weekends tours

Lets take a gander over here




Here's boogie chillin git'n it down the cross on Tallac


Followed by Stevo the magnificent


Boogie Chillin had to split off for some reason


Stevo and I went a little futher south and got some sweet California corn
And Hmmm, I guess I need that one behind you checked off my own list




(This would be Ralston on the way out to Pyramid.



And Made it



And then took a few on the way home.




Sorry no picks of me skiing the windloadbuffcrust on Pyramid.

[powdork]

very nice! kind of deserves it's own TR.

speaking of which
did Jobs thursday

[BOOGIECHILLIN]

nice....

[gimpy]

pyramid from echo lakes????? way to check that one off the list but damn if it hasn't looked pretty shitty all year w/ the wind rapeage.

[PowStompper]

pyramid from echo lakes????? way to check that one off the list but damn if it hasn't looked pretty shitty all year w/ the wind rapeage.

Yes, I did go from Echo, but the way in from twin bridges actualy looked way easier. I met this dude at the top that came in that way with 2 kids and it looked much easier that way, He said that he used to go in from the Leaf 30 years ago. From Echo it is long but mostly flat.

I had to post these from our re-run Tallac tour last weekend.
Stevo the magnificent and I found this thing with a booter up it so we partook.





Stevo pointing us in the right direction from the top.