EAST COAST ROLL CALL #8 14/15 A NEW HOPE

[Goombay]

Tuckerman was still good as of Sunday. Got to see some nice hucks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USRy...ature=youtu.be

[buttahflake]

heads up if you want a Kmart pass for 15-16, get it by tomorrow night for the best price.
i just re-upped!

[Jonathan S.]

Got to see some nice hucks.

I thought you were kidding until I watched the video!

[From_the_NEK]

Recent rain has really made the greens around here silly saturated.

Putting the "Green" in green mountain state:

Green Tunnel Vision by Tim_NEK, on Flickr

[biggins]

^^^Like!!! Yes, trails are crazy overgrown of late in the UV. Only downside is its like a paradise for the skeeters- they are baaaaad.

[From_the_NEK]

Geez, no one posting for 3.5 days. Where'd everyone go?

[mtl_ripper]

To summer I guess

[robrox]

To summer I guess

Yep...buncha sprocket heads

[Jonathan S.]

Geez, no one posting for 3.5 days. Where'd everyone go?

To Adams today.
Over 9k cumulative ascent with only 1.1k downhike at the end. SW Chutes ranged from very good to excellent. South Climb from about a thousand vertical below Pikers to past the Crescent Glacier ranged from fair to poor.

[Jonathan S.]

Summit picture.

[neufox47]

Surprised the snow went that low with the winter they had. Nice trip Jonathan

[dark_star]

How was the wildlife, if you know what I mean? (Are we still making Mount Adams/grey wolf/gun jokes? Or is that officially passe?)

[Jonathan S.]

Surprised the snow went that low with the winter they had.

That slightly over 1k downhike at the end of the day to the Cold Springs trailhead should have been a downhike of ... well, actually, at this time of year we shouldn't even be skiing down to Cold Springs, since the road to there should still be covered by snow, and instead we would usually be bypassing Cold Springs entirely for another nearly 1k of skiing to the Morrison Creek trailhead.
But since the snow drought down low is from warm temps not lack of precip, the snowpack up high is still pretty close to normal (with the PNW definition of "normal" being rather abnormal in a good way).

[Jonathan S.]

How was the wildlife, if you know what I mean? (Are we still making Mount Adams/grey wolf/gun jokes? Or is that officially passe?)

I would have been viciously attacked yesterday morning but for the quick action of my ski partner!
That would be his doberman "puppy" at his house in Portland...

Otherwise, up on the mountain, just the usual slow hikers, with only a very small number of skiers.

[Jonathan S.]

Doarama version of my partner's tracklog yesterday on the "real" Mount Adams:
http://www.doarama.com/view/363061
We split up after the return to Lunch Counter (i.e., from the base of the SW Chutes), so that I could continue up along the South Climb to within about 1,000' vertical of the false summit (Piker's Peak) to get in my 9k' cumulative ascent for the day.

[ex-powderbroker]

thought i had the place to myself, not too shabby for dirty jerz tho.

[Vt-Freeheel]

Watch out! The bears in jerzsee are killers.

[ex-powderbroker]

Watch out! The bears in jerzsee are killers.

are you saying they're bad news bears?

[Jonathan S.]

Adams was wearing a lenticular hat this morning but otherwise more 9k vert of the same as yesterday.
(Although skipped the summit to instead ski down further on the flats below the SW Chutes - surprisingly quite pleasant all the way down there, although will disappear soon.)

[east or bust]

jerz is alright

[Jonathan S.]

This was a good place to turn around today:

[Jonathan S.]

Potential danger tally yesterday afternoon = just passed by rock fall, crevasse, fumarole, and now up above me is the bergschrund plus more rock fall (with numerous large boulders in the middle of a 45-degree snow slope, visually blocked by my embarrassingly ugly helmet, which would do little to block them physically).

Okay, time to turn around!

[NoPostholio]

Potential danger tally yesterday afternoon = just passed by rock fall, crevasse, fumarole, and now up above me is the bergschrund plus more rock fall (with numerous large boulders in the middle of a 45-degree snow slope, visually blocked by my embarrassingly ugly helmet, which would do little to block them physically).

Okay, time to turn around!

Hood?

[Jonathan S.]

Hood?

Yes, Mount Hood, where people get upset when they have to wait after calling in on a regular cell phone for a rescue by helicopter:
http://www.oregonlive.com/clackamasc...ood_rescu.html

[robrox]

Looks like another fine trip... What, nearly 20 years now?