Eastern Sierras 2010-11: The Eternal Stoke

[seanhav]

^^^ nice, ben! where?

[gimpy]

^^^^niiiice!!!!
skied w/ the splitter in your crew the previous day

[SchralphMacchio]

Wheeeeeeee!!!!

wooohooo! Nice one granjero! another josh hejl image?

[Franz Klammer]

Very nice. Where is that? What Magic Carpet?

(But I do think you played a little with the tilt on this one ...)

[gimpy]

mt gibbs is about as good and easy as it gets right now and 90% of the trax from today should recycle.

[213]

Perspective is everything
Finally a 213image! Josh was working (for once!)...
But I was more focused on not plummeting off the out-in-space boulder while shooting photos than making sure my horizon was parallel in the frame.
A great time with the homies in the greatest playground known to man, along the 1-Twenay!
I'll post pics up later, too lazy right now, u can find them elsewheres for now.
Glad everyone is getting out and shreddin that shiyat up! Split! Cardinal! Gibbs! Willy! YES! More! More!

[BGnight]

[highanxiety]

^^Thats looking fun, NICE! Wish I could be around for the splitfest..

[Imz]

That first step is a Lulu!!

Wheeeeeeee!!!!

[Franz Klammer]

We were planning on skiing Red Slate this weekend, but now I fear that the weather will not cooperate. Would it be entirely foolish to attempt it in good weather on Sunday after the first wave of the storm?

[gimpy]

^^^prolly depends on how much snow and/or wind there is so it oughtta be a gameday decision. i'd say go for it though if the light is green early sunday as it should be great. the line looks fat, the sketch traverse looks fat and the alternate entrance looked to go from afar. there is a large crown right underneath the couloir in the apron. kinda strange in that there looks to be a lower crown as well forming a circle w/ a big chunk of snow jusst missing out of it and there is no debris pile below that we could see. you will be walking around the lake and then on snow the whole way w/ the stream all bridged nice

[Franz Klammer]

Thanks for the information. I am a little hesitant to ski it if it really dumps a foot at the top!

I am also still thinking about an easier BC option on Saturday. Any suggestions?

Finally, question for BGnight: where are those pictures taken?

[Franz Klammer]

Did anyone get after it today?

[ninjabirdman]

st jean? nice looking line! did you get a look at the split couloir, did it look like it still needed a rap with this fat snow year?

Schralph, the book calls that line the north face of morrison south, the left side of that east face actually is fairly protected and north facing. it goes this year, although you have to traverse across the rocks at the bottom in your boots, but the move wasn't hard.


here's coverage as of april 1. line is on the left, starting just below the left pinnacle.


skiing above the lowest crux section

full tr: http://blog.tuckercunningham.com/201...s-here-mt.html

[Franz Klammer]

Double post below -- sorry!

[Franz Klammer]

- We were too scared to go after Red Slate. After the heavy snowfall it just felt too sketchy.

- However, Solitude Peak and Banana Chute on Sunday were beyond awesome. Definitely the best turns of the season for me, Hansi Hinterseer called it the best descent of his life (he had first tracks) -- 40 degree chute, 2000 ft descent in the chute, 2 feet of powder, not a cloud in the sky! Hansi Hinterseer released a slab on his 4th turn, but it didn't slide fast enough to catch him ... I can't imagine if something like that had happened on Red Slate.



- A shoutout to "Powder Dan" if he's on TGR.

- Two skiers put a really nice line in ParaChute off Pyramid Peak. They skied out via Valentine Cirque.

- There were also two wonderful lines on the North face of Esha Peak. We skied it a month ago so whoever skied it this weekend must have had the turns of their life!

[Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer]

Nice Franz - sounds like a great day out nonetheless.

[213]

the split couloir, did it look like it still needed a rap with this fat snow year?

While I have not been there, others have told me that it tends to require always require a rap (or WI3 downclimb), since the cliff ranges between 60-100+ feet of WI3 ice. The anchors for the rap are supposedly sketchy...maybe bring some pins. A well-established anchor would certainly increase the popularity of the line since not many seem stoked on the ice climbing to get it or skiing down to the crux and climbing back out...

Great pics on your Morrison drop.

Franz, looks like a fabulous day of powder skiing in the Mammoth backyard!

BTW, here is the copied TR from The Backcountry of the Magic Carpet.

[BGnight]

- There were also two wonderful lines on the North face of Esha Peak. We skied it a month ago so whoever skied it this weekend must have had the turns of their life!

That may have been us on Saturday. We were attending Kali Splitfest and got a late start. Only made it half way up Esha due to time restraints, getting socked in, and windloading concerns. There wasn't a bad turn all the way to the creek. It WOULD have been the pow run of a lifetime if we had topped out. If someone went there Sunday they would have got it real good.

[Franz Klammer]

That may have been us on Saturday. We were attending Kali Splitfest and got a late start. Only made it half way up Esha due to time restraints, getting socked in, and windloading concerns. There wasn't a bad turn all the way to the creek. It WOULD have been the pow run of a lifetime if we had topped out. If someone went there Sunday they would have got it real good.

Great photos, but I just checked and the photo I shot on Sunday has two distinct lines straight from the summit (see below). I would have made the same decision of passing on it due to windloading ...



Talk about windloading. There is no trace of your tracks in that photo ...

[UPGRAYEDD_2505]

Nice pics in this thread.

Dr. Night, if you're making regular trips down 395 let me know. I live in these parts now and am looking for partners. (I swung by the convict lake cabin sat night but don't think that I met you...was tired and a little drunk.)

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Good snow the past few days!

preston

[BGnight]

Yeah, our tracks started right at that rock just right of the right track so most of it is outta view. I'm jealous of whoever did that! I almost considered going back that day cuz the snow was retarded good.

Few vids from a week ago and yesterday:

[jrf]

Two skiers put a really nice line in ParaChute off Pyramid Peak. They skied out via Valentine Cirque.

Those turns were some of the deepest of the year. We encountered hip deep trail breaking from about halfway up the Parachute to the (burried) chockstone -- luckily Dark Star had a pair of verts that made the top section easier going, and due to pitch up top it was more managable. Good stability all the way up and down, but there was quite a bit of sluff on the way down. Super stoked skiing that kind of blower goggle deep snow coming out of a line like that, and anything the sun hadn't gotten to was primo most of the way back down. We did have one of those isolated snow showers pop up on us which made skiing out of the rock into the open cirque a little interesting, and hopefully the pics came out. Wish I had some picture stoke to post but DS has all the pics, I'm sure he'll get something up soon.

[SchralphMacchio]

Holy stoke on this page batman!

This thread is firing all of the sudden! So sad I had to miss the eastside party this weekend - please tell me Tex sprung for the creme brulee???

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Holy crap, are those the Hippie Chutes? So filled in I don't even recognize them ... extra credit chute on the far right didn't go from the top last year ...

[Franz Klammer]

This page is why I love TGR. Looking at all those lines (there were a few also in Old Man's Bowl) I kept thinking: "I bet it's people on TGR ..."