Bridgeport Area Info???

[Huckwheat]

We are headed up Green Creek Road tonight? Road Info....A) we have never been, B) what are conditions like this season, and after all this rain.

The plan is to camp in our trucks as far up the road as possible (the actual Green Creek Campground is at 8200ft, so I doubt we will make that). Then a weekend of skiing (not me because of new ACL) by both sled and skins.

Anyone?

[gimpy]

road is clear all the way to the campground, though word is there's some washout on the road but is still managable. i haven't been there this year but i hear last weekend that skiing conditions were excellent except for some slide debris in the gut. tough to say what its like after this recent rain event though and if its even been freezing at night.i may try to hit dunderburg tomorrow/fri myself if i can bust ass at work today so maybe i'll see ya up thataway.

[bcrider]

sierra cement has pics from last weekend on schwatz's site.

www.thebackcountry.net

[Tri-Ungulate]

Anybody skiing Eastside early next week (Mon/Tue)? Coming out from Ootah and looking for hiking partners.

Thanks.

[bcrider]

I wish Tri-U...not until memorial.

Have fun at the ttips party!

ps. gimpy, clean your PM box!

[Greydon Clark]

Sleds and Green Creek? Are we talking saucers and drunkenness or the kind with motors? Anyway, I don’t know if Green Creek is the best sled terrain, as you cross the river and start booting the chute. Never mind the wilderness area and national park. Oh, I’ll be in the area too, but not skiing The Creek.

[Tri-Ungulate]

Yep, BCR, sorry our paths don't cross again this year - though the season is far from over. I might be out again mid-June and expect the snow to still be on the ground. Regardless, we'll get some turns in together again sometime.

Getting close to 1000 posts there pardner.

[bcrider]

Tri-U,

Give a shout before you come out in June…there will be plenty of snow on the ground and that’s the month that we close out the season propa!

Yeah, 1000 posts…looking forward to my TGR sticker and free bowl of soup.

[Huckwheat]

Sleds and Green Creek? Are we talking saucers and drunkenness or the kind with motors? Anyway, I don’t know if Green Creek is the best sled terrain, as you cross the river and start booting the chute. Never mind the wilderness area and national park. Oh, I’ll be in the area too, but not skiing The Creek.

Interesting. I was talking Snowmobiles. My buddy had heard there was a good place to drive back to and do some shuttles. We have a group of us (bachelor party trip) and were going to have couple groups heading up (some skinning/climbing) others getting towed on some mellow laps.

Also, we knew about the wilderness area/national park, and werent going to be heading that far in with any sleds.

You could very well be correct though??? If, so it just means we didnt need to tow it down there.....oh well.

[bcrider]

Huck,
I’m pretty sure your plans will be fine as long as you find out exactly where the boundary is. Sleds are legal on part of the mountain but not the whole thing. I heard there is a squaw family that has a snowcat down there too. Have fun and give your friend tying the knot my condolences. (kidding of course)

[Xover]

Yep, BCR, sorry our paths don't cross again this year - though the season is far from over. I might be out again mid-June and expect the snow to still be on the ground.

no piggy backing on me and TH's mid-june planned trip biaaaaaaatch

jus kiddin; would be kewl for us 3, Powho, jason, lil stevey lloyd to go tag some Tioga luv for 4 or 5 days around June 10,11ish

[Tri-Ungulate]

would be kewl for us 3, Powho, jason, lil stevey lloyd to go tag some Tioga luv for 4 or 5 days around June 10,11ish.

Would be kewl, indeed - krew 'o Ootards on the loose in the land of real beer and legalized gamblin' and whorin' - but damn, I will miss it by one week, again...

I have a meeting in SF on June 17th-18th, and was thinking of driving out instead of flying and skiing around the eastside for a couple of days after, on the way back.

You guys can't put off your mid-June trip for another few days, could you? Tioga Road isn't gonna be open 'till July 4th hear tell, though might be plowed partway by then.

[Huckwheat]

Huck,
I’m pretty sure your plans will be fine as long as you find out exactly where the boundary is. Sleds are legal on part of the mountain but not the whole thing. I heard there is a squaw family that has a snowcat down there too. Have fun and give your friend tying the knot my condolences. (kidding of course)

Thanks, appreciate the info (from both of you). Cool, we will see. I am hoping to get to drive this thing and shuttle some people and take some photos (as I cant ski), so thought it would be a fun thing for me to.

We will watch the boundaries on our topos closely.
Funny sidestory: a couple of my buddies used sleds mid winter to get up to a couloir on North Peak. While climbing the chute, they heard/saw some snowmobiles pull up next to theirs and stop (which was 1000 feet below where they were). Anyhow, what could they do: they climbed for another hour, dug in and sat up top for an hour or so, then skied the shot.....to go down and get their $1000 ticket. They had actually checked the boundaries too.....but somehow had messed up and gone just across them.

[Huckwheat]

[QUOTE=Tri-Ungulate]I have a meeting in SF on June 17th-18th, and was thinking of driving out instead of flying and skiing around the eastside for a couple of days after, on the way back.
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Shasta/Lassen would be a great call that time of year too.

[bcrider]

I am hoping to get to drive this thing and shuttle some people and take some photos (as I cant ski), so thought it would be a fun thing for me to.

I’ll be sittin’ out most of next year with the same thing. Let me know if you need any drivers...

[Sierra Cement]

Thanks, appreciate the info (from both of you). Cool, we will see. I am hoping to get to drive this thing and shuttle some people and take some photos (as I cant ski), so thought it would be a fun thing for me to.

Last weekend we saw old sled tracks on the big plateau between Dunderberg and the top of Green Creek couloir. It looks like they easily got up to the top of the couloir (but didn't center punch it thank god!). I think the sleds access the area from the road between Green Creek and Virginia Lakes (super mellow long slope leading up to Kavanaugh Ridge). That road is currently clear on the Green Creek side and snowed in on the Virginia Lakes side. I can't imagine that you'd want to do any sledding around the campground - thick ass alders in a steep and narrow canyon. You guys will have a blast out there though.

I’ll be sittin’ out most of next year with the same thing. Let me know if you need any drivers...

WTF? If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

If you've really got to; have that surgery within the next month, you'll be back in the game by December.

[Telenater]

People have been all over the area with sleds this year.

Saturday some blatantly crossed the wilderness boundary (highmarked around a no snowmobile sign). I really wish I'd been smart enough to get their trailer license number. The next day, the snowmobilers were merely annoying and didn't appear to have gone anywhere illegal, but they went a lot of places at high speed.....