Another day, another side, another bluebird Mt. Baker TR 10-13-2007

[Zeedashbo]

Sometimes you need to switch things up a little. After two powder weekends on the coleman-deming side of Mt. Baker, it was time to up the ante. After heavy drinking Thursday night at Dante's we decided the boulder cleaver/glacier/park headwall route on Baker was the next task. A promised 6,000 vert of fall line skiing was the clincher. The players included Lani, Squirell99, myself and three other badasses that most likely think that TGR is a little too crazy to spend time on.

Music brought to you by Devin the Dude. I felt about as good as his car by the end of the day.




Our day started exactly when the day started.....MIDNIGHT BIATCH!


I made an awesome choice at around 5 pm to go to a mexican restaraunt and get drunk, mount some bindings with lani around seven, got home at 10, slept for an hour only to be woken up by squirell at 11:45 wondering if the rodent master was in my dreams, or if my dreams came true and i was being woke up by the rodent master.

We met up at casa Lani, and promptly packed up the subaru's. If I remember correctly we started hiking around 3 in the morning. Now this is where Lani's sandbagging skills serve him so well. I was told it was only a couple miles longer than the coleman deming route, which might be correct. What wasn't explained was that this wasn't a regular trail, but a swampy climbers path with a fixed line scramble just to attain the ridgeline.

squirell looking comfortable after a headlight scramble!




morning light on the east side of the big ice cream cone



after a few quick breaks waiting for my lazy ass to catch up it was time to don the crampons and go kick up some steeps.






Lani getting his obligatory bro shot. There might be noone better to kick steps up a 45 degree icy slope than this man. i heart you!!!!!





eventually we made it up the park headwall. squirell thanking god that we made the summit and his crampons decided not to fall off with massive exposure below him




Lani skiing well




some guy who likes old school sweaters, almost falling in crevasces and speaks of his nicknames in the third person.




i think this is eric? nice to ski with ya again buddy!





uncle what's his ass getting all french.








more french in the northwest cascades



a few pretty cool people taking advantage of a really nice ski









some sexy bastard getting all waved out before eating shit




but he recovers in time to look pretty for his favorite photographer




no clue who this is, but as borat says 'very niiiiice'



lani going real fast in some icy corn




squirell making it look like he really likes to ski.




is that squirell and lani down there? i better catch up



good thing i caught up, or else i wouldn't have got this picture









ummmmmm. we skied from that top of that thing to here? yessir!

[shirk]

Hell yeah uncle dash and crew. That seems like a damn fine way to spend a day.

[powslaya]

awesome....

[Squatch]

sweet tr.

the pnw squirrel et al crew never seems to disappoint. way to get after it.

[Squirrel99]

sweet tr.

the pnw squirrel et al crew never seems to disappoint. way to get after it.

This would be more like "Lani's Crew"

Great effin' day, even if my pussy stank louder than a, well, you get what i'm saying The ski and hike were incredible. 8500 vert climb, 6000 vert of skiing!

But back to "Lani's Crew." I say this because, being a complete rock climbing JONG- had no idea wtf was going on when we ascended this along a fixed line in the dark at oh-fuck-oh clock in the morning, only to beyond shit my pants when it came time to descend it on the way back.

[AsheanMT]

That was damn nice.

[rehabit]

looks as good as you described it... Glad that scramble didn't scramble anybody too!
I like this one!

[Snowhead]

awesome pics

[FFsup]

Great work!

Very nice TR + nice and long route =

[Arno]

solid work

[Hicks]

Damn nice effort, thx for sharing.

[powderpond]

Nice work! Nice phots!

[fonixmunkee]

Damned YouTube is blocked at work, but the pics were enough to whet my appetite. That guy slashing that bank was pretty cool, too.

Thanks for sharing!

[jimmy page]

This isn't really fair. It isn't even Halloween yet.

[Woodsy]

the tunes are how I felt ridin in z-bos opld hoopty
and this?
i
this just made me say "Daaaaayum" out loud, SDOL
in my office.

[TurnEarner]

I can think of worse October TRs...

Much gratitude...

[lemon boy]

it's october? who knew?

[Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo]

That did not suck at all. Nice work gentlemen.

[Smacky]

Great tr guys. Really nice pics.

[TyWebb]

$$$$ - looked pretty buttery for a while.

[peds]

Those are some mother-loving awesome shots dude. A hike with the just rewards
Love that second pic, with the morning Alpenglow going on.


Quick question - what do you guys mean by "corn"? It's a term I've heard referred to occasionally, but only by Americans... not heard it in Europe.

Kind of crunchy snow?

[bcrider]

Man you guys are lucky! That looks so sick!!!




ps.

some sexy bastard getting all waved out before eating shit...

Of course he did....he had the wrong tool and stance for surfing!

[frozenwater]

Wow, thanks for that awesome bit of stoke all.

The PNW crew is just so solid.

[spindrift]

major pornage! thanks for posting it...

[LeeLau]

thanks for the eye candy and for a look at a route that's less-travelled