PNW 2022/2023 Season - It's Triple Dip La Niña Time!

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[MagnificentUnicorn]

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Up near Big Lou?


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Sorta; icicle ridge lookout with sunset over Mt Cashmere…


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[MagnificentUnicorn]

Sorta; icicle ridge lookout with sunset over Mt Cashmere…


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Cool, have you taken the Icicle Ridge trail through Cabin Creek to Augusta?


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Did Lake Silvester to town this spring, dipped into Cabin Creek to get around Jay Peak…


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[wickstad]

That time of the year
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04/05 I don’t think Stevens opened? I do know the only skiing in WA was at Mission for a while just chair 1 and chair 4 to the mid station offload. It started snowing after they closed in mid March and snowed a lot. I remember skiing deep cold snow the first week of April all the way from the summit to the lot.


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Well yeah that’s when we met. We were climbing castle groomer.

[wickstad]

We’re lousy with them over here as Dr. Farrar used to say about tele skiers at Mission.

[wickstad]

I’m looking back at you there

[MagnificentUnicorn]

We’re lousy with them over here as Dr. Farrar used to say about tele skiers at Mission.

Yeah we were just below the rocky butte center left


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[plugboots]

WA pass hairpin views today.

[3pin]

Last Friday I got out for a long run on the PCT by Crystal and a bit of a winter wake-up. I probably should've realized it when I saw a lone plow truck past Greenwater, but I was a bit surprised to pull into Chinook Pass at 37 degrees with 3-4 inches of snow on the ground. Most of the Naches Peak loop was snow-covered, but traction wasn't too bad, so I kept going from Chinook on the PCT over Sourdough Gap and along the ridge all the way to Norse Peak. Most of the snow tapered off past Sourdough, with shaded aspects holding a little bit. It wound up being a great tour of Crystal BC, past Threeway, Bullion Basin, and Norse with spectacular views from Adams to Rainier, Crystal, and Norse Peak Wilderness.


Snow around Naches Peak Loop


Decent early accumulation over Sourdough Gap, then it disappeared.




Moody travel through the old burn scar




Looking south from Norse Peak, before starting the long return to Chinook Pass.

[wickstad]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_C8jg3z00Xo

[MagnificentUnicorn]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_C8jg3z00Xo

Amazing!


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[lowsparkco]

Are we headed for a single scoop of El Niño?

[Buster Highmen]

A gorgeous, if uncharacteristically warm and dry, PNW fall day.

[phatty]

Took advantage of the gorgeous weather to get out for some late season skiing last night.

[kamtron]

That time of the year
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That would keep me satisfied for a couple seasons! Good looking haul. Haven't found any patches in my new 'hood yet

[ey_allen]

My wife and I finally had a childcare window, so we headed out for a run yesterday. I heard plenty of reports online that the Larches were done, so I set out to prove yet again that the internet is full of shit.

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Weather on the Eastside continues to be dreamlike. Hanging out for a sunset now, results shortly….


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[MagnificentUnicorn]

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Somewhere between French Corral and Chumstick.


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[riff]

Right at French Corral! Hard to get a good frame without the power lines. Here’s the rest of the story:



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[waveshello]

Love the yellow carpet effect!

It is definitely on and poppin' on the east side, tomorrow is probably the last day of moderate weather though. This evening:

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Lovely! Strong work, packing a spare human just in case.
Funny enough, the yellow carpet floats- I’d be trundling along on larch needles, then without any surface changes just step in an ankle deep puddle…..nice day regardless.


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[BaseFloopy]

Brace yourselves for the storm of the century, or at the least, October 2023.
https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2023/...-blast-of.html

Not sure if any accumulation will remain as part of the season's snowpack but the VPF is looking good.


Obligatory past-season stoke: French fry powered french-frying.