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Thread: Photo TR: Midsummer Cloud Surf and Wildflowers, North Side Mt. Rainier, July 15 2016

  1. 07-16-2016, 09:06 AM #1
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    Photo TR: Midsummer Cloud Surf and Wildflowers, North Side Mt. Rainier, July 15 2016








































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  2. 07-16-2016, 11:34 AM #2
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    Nice!

    How far up did you go? Did you summit?
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  3. 07-16-2016, 11:45 AM #3
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    Snow looks like it's still worth the walk.
    Move upside and let the man go through...
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    Yeah it does!

    I really like that first picture
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    Most excellent!
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  6. 07-16-2016, 09:38 PM #6
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    Thanks, dudes! Flett was suncupped a bit, but the Russell (especially up high) was silky. Some week old white was just corned up.
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    Nice!

    How far up did you go? Did you summit?
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  9. 07-18-2016, 10:00 AM #9
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    Great photography! That shot looking up at the seracs on Ptarmigan Ridge is awesome. Can't believe Dan and Eric skied it five years ago.
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    Great photos!
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    Thanks for sharing! looks like a great time.
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    glad this got bumped bc I missed it earlier today
    So beautiful and snow looked good. mmmmmm
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    Nice! It hurts not getting in a Spray Park tour this year.
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    Not too late by a long shot. You must have other stuff going on, Steve...
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  16. 07-20-2016, 08:49 AM #16
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    Quote Originally Posted by auvgeek View Post
    Great photography! That shot looking up at the seracs on Ptarmigan Ridge is awesome. Can't believe Dan and Eric skied it five years ago.
    The ice cliffs? Someone skied those?
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    ^^Well, they skied a variation of the Ptarmigan ridge line that skirts the largest ice cliff. Pretty proud line regardless.

    http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubb...Number=1023902
    http://skisickness.com/post/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=252

    Didn't mean to TR-jack, it was just the first thought that came to mind when viewing Norseman's absolutely gorgeous photos.
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    Quote Originally Posted by auvgeek View Post
    ^^Well, they skied a variation of the Ptarmigan ridge line that skirts the largest ice cliff. Pretty proud line regardless.

    http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubb...Number=1023902
    http://skisickness.com/post/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=252

    Didn't mean to TR-jack, it was just the first thought that came to mind when viewing Norseman's absolutely gorgeous photos.
    Just to add, here's a picture with the line drawn on.

    From: http://www.alpenglow.org/ski-history...t-rainier.html
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  19. 07-20-2016, 07:31 PM #19
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    Sweet! Thanks for the links.
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    That'd be a burly ski... making turns through the giant seracs would be cool as fuck and not too scary, but the traverse in the middle of the line would be freaky steep, and all with certain death exposure. It'd take just the right snow conditions.

    Thanks for the photo... I love how beautifully it shows the undulating west edge of the Russell. So much good skiing on this side of the mountain! The Mowich Face looked primo smooth with a fresh crop of corn. Someone should go for it!

    Great link, too. Love looking at the lines/names/dates of those big lines.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Norseman View Post
    The Mowich Face looked primo smooth with a fresh crop of corn. Someone should go for it!
    Are you talking about CMF or Edmunds Headwall?

    I love the north side of Rainier.
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  22. 07-20-2016, 11:19 PM #22
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    The huge high face that both those lines share, at the top... but the Edmonds side more, I guess. Something dreamy about that enormous double fall line
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  23. 07-25-2016, 08:57 AM #23
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    great photo!
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  24. 07-25-2016, 01:38 PM #24
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mofro261 View Post
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    Snow looks like it's still worth the walk.
    Where is this? Do these rocks have names?
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    Quote Originally Posted by billyk View Post
    Where is this? Do these rocks have names?
    That's on the ~W. flanks of the Russell Glacier, but I don't think those rocks are not prominent enough to be named.
    You can see the slope and the two rock croppings on the middle left of this pic (not my pic, but taken from Observation Rock near the Flett headwall)
    Move upside and let the man go through...
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