Anyone skied Mt Adams or Muir snowfield recently?

[Blinkyjoe]

Hi Kids-
I'm in dire need of a late-summer ski. Has anyone done Mt Adams or taken the trip down from Muir in the past week or two? How are the suncups?
Any info would be appreciated, thx.

[GoldMember]

Word is that the suncups are pretty bad. Here's a TAY report for Muir and the FS website for Adams. I can't imagine Adams is any good at this point. It was getting kind of marginal over a month ago.

http://www.turns-all-year.com/skiing...p?topic=5247.0

http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/recreation...g-report.shtml

[Greydon Clark]

A friend went to Muir a few weeks ago and reported horrible, unfun conditions.

On a similar note, the guide books indicate that Muir becomes skiable with the first snows of October, true? I’m new to the PNW.

[GoldMember]

I think Hood is about the only place around that will be worth hitting this time of year. If you're really jonesing bad, that may be about the only choice, unless you really like skiing on dirt, rocks, micro-craters, etc.

[Blinkyjoe]

Thanks to all, looks like I'll have to wait a few months....

[kb1dqh]

Muir had be sweet after a bit of October snow. After a freak storm you can ski to the p-lot by late October... happened a few years ago. Or it might not snow until November...

[Blinkyjoe]

kbidgh:
Yeah, i know. I'm scared. Sierrra gets consistent dumps, we here in the PNW seem to go one year on, one year off. Global warming and all that....
After last year (epic),I'm crossing my fingers. I was skiing Alpental in late march for crying out loud.

[Monique]

One year on, one year off in the PNW? Bullshit. One bad year out of the last dozen and everyone's cowering in fear. Don't be scared. It's gonna be gooooooooooood. antijinxantijinxJONGantijinxantijinx

Okay so I always feel as if I should apologize after Jonging someone. I'm such a girl.

[corn dog]

You might want to ask around about Baker, there are occasional late season TRs from that mountain, although you'll have to at least think about glacier travel/crevasses. Ask at turns-all-year.
Now that I think about it, I recall climbing glacier peak in August and finding super good corn on the Sitkum glacier. Something else to think about, depending on your willingness to hike. Also some crevasse issues.

[shmerham]

kbidgh:
Yeah, i know. I'm scared. Sierrra gets consistent dumps, we here in the PNW seem to go one year on, one year off. Global warming and all that....
After last year (epic),I'm crossing my fingers. I was skiing Alpental in late march for crying out loud.

I thought there was a 4 year cycle with one year being crappy, one being just ok, one being good, and one being sickter mcrickter.

[Greydon Clark]

kbidgh:
I was skiing Alpental in late march for crying out loud.

I was skiing Alpental in early May!

[philfort]

The suncups are only bad in some places - the trick is finding out where. The Quien Sabe glacier on Sahale, for instance, was quite smooth last weekend. Would have been great skiing, if you want it bad enough to lug your skis up there.

I was skiing Alpental in late march for crying out loud.

Well, in a "normal year", Alpental would have top to bottom snow until sometime in May...