I want to do an April touring multi day trip in the Beartooth Range at the Mount Zimmer yurt.
I want to do an April touring multi day trip in the Beartooth Range at the Mount Zimmer yurt.
Always charging it in honor of Flyin' Ryan Hawks.
Been thinking about this one for a few years, doubt we'll get it this year though, the way things are shaping up.
Young's Peak Traverse, Rogers Pass.
"We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what. -George Santayana, The Philosophy of Travel
...it would probably bother me more if I wasn't quite so heavily sedated. -David St. Hubbins, This Is Spinal Tap
Ms. Daley certainly brightens that spot nicely, as she did everywhere she went.
Deep sigh...
RIP Betty Dee, here's hoping there was more pow where you spent last winter than the rest of us.
Forever Young indeed.
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"We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what. -George Santayana, The Philosophy of Travel
...it would probably bother me more if I wasn't quite so heavily sedated. -David St. Hubbins, This Is Spinal Tap
La Grave. Any line at La Grave.
"Girl, let us freak."
Terminal Cancer is happening in '16 for me.
This is what one of the objects of my desire looks like in late summer. Think it's still virgin so I'm not naming it
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That's only the top 400m. Another 200m at the same pitch after the choke, 300 of steep-ish ice to the glacier terminus and 300 more of steep-ish polished rock and scree from the old glacial extent.
Dunno what you guys are talking about lines disappearing. Scree is scree, just needs the right winter and storm to fill in again. This summer, things are so hot and the ice falling so much that I wouldn't be surprised if a few lines in the rockies aren't there anymore come winter. This serac fell off or that alpine ice finally completely melted out or that rock slab decided to jettison its entire pocket glacier to the valley bottom. The topography itself is changing.
edit: probably not fair to belittle your problems. This hot summer is just getting to me. Melt's at least a month ahead of schedule, and the ice was pulling back fast enough as is
Nothing special of a line, but skiing the SW chutes on Adams with a buddy this April/May, pretty psyched about that. Possibly St Helens too.
There are a few shots on the NW facing aspects of the Hobbs peak area that I can see from my balcony and would looove to get down...
Inbounds:
(Climax/Hangman's area. Not sure if any of it is ever actually open, and if a lot of that is bigger than it looks, but it certainly gets my eye every time I get on the gondy...)
Snowbird Day 1:
(Either variation probably wouldn't score well unless skied at 110+ mph, but that's about the best I can do!)
Haines:
Sexy Spines looks pretty sweet, too...
Have been giddy for a while. October is here next week, which means the flakes start flying soon. BRING ON GODZIRRA!
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"I said flotation is groovy"
-Jimi Hendrix
"Just... ski down there and jump offa somethin' for cryin' out loud!!!"
-The Coolest Guy to have Ever Lived
For the Mammoth line - are you sure you have the right area? Can't place that one at all.
Nevermind - thats really really low tide. Cliffs were pretty much buried by Jan when I skied there. I guess it doesn't snow anymore? Sweet line - you can definitely ski it. Definitely in the 25' range. That upper one you have to send hudge to clear the lower band though I think? - expect 40'?
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Dolomites
Punta Penia Nord:
Val Scura:
Adirondacks
Trap Dike to Colden (climb gully in the middle, ski slide on right):
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Always wanted to do the trap dyke in the winter, such a cool trip
It's more of a spring thing, but if I can't get the Grand this year, fuck it - I'm getting too old for that shit.
That Val Scura couloir pic is chi chi's bueno.
Probably not this season, but one day.
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"Alpine rock and steep, deep powder are what I seek, and I will always find solace there." - Bean Bowers
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[QUOTE=Deep Days;4561092]Inbounds:
(Climax/Hangman's area. Not sure if any of it is ever actually open, and if a lot of that is bigger than it looks, but it certainly gets my eye every time I get on the gondy...)
Snowbird Day 1:
(Either variation probably wouldn't score well unless skied at 110+ mph, but that's about the best I can do!)
Did Gordys camp and skied the shit out of that hole are with Marcus Caston... Great guy and killer skier and skiing with him was humbling as fuck...! That whole area was an absolute blast and the snow was farily legit considering the lack of snowfall... The small choke up at the top just under the tower was a blind entry and exit and our group did rock, papers, scissors to see who was going first... Good times were def had... We lapped it 4 times and by the last run and it being the end of the day the legs said it was time for a beer...
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