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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

March update...

It is now late March, and with about 35 days out on the snow to date, all I can is that it has been an awesome season! What have I been up to lately? Lifts, slackcountry, frontcountry...whatever, so long as I've got some Powerfly II core underfoot, it's all good! Yep, I hate fighting umpteen others for those cherished lines like everyone else. If weekend crowds bother you, might I suggest finding a way to take a mid week pow day...it makes a difference! The mileage I have also gotten out of my SnoCrummy Pass has been unprecedented. Crystal, Cypress, Alpental...thanks Boyne! I chased the snow south to Hood Meadows as a vigorous storm was lashing Oregon the weekend of March 15, and took the following Tuesday off for another serving of pow at Alpental. A man possessed one might say.

Photos below are from a 3/1 trip to Whistler and a 3/24 trip to Crystal.

Agata drops into the bowl skier's left of Whister's Flute Shoulder. Descending Whistler's Flute Shoulder. Last bit of untracked before Whistler's Symphony Bowl. Olympic ice sculpture outside Whistler's Roundhouse Lodge.
Mt. Rainier from Crystal Mtn. Ski Area. Second in line on Crystal's REX Chair. View from top of Crystal's Silver King towards Three Way Peak and Silver Basin.
My line down The King's Brain Damage. What it's all about - pow, sun and no lines in the South-Back! The Throne and Silver Queen (left-to-right) from the hike up the King.

Friday, March 7, 2008

Silver Peak - West Face/North Slope, Feb. 23

My goddam toes are going to be beat to a pulp after this garbage I bitched to Andy. Why I did not listen to my own advice and bring a pair of crampons I do not know. Above me, Andy was making steady, toe-friendly progress cramponing up the frozen West Face. What was I doing here? The tips of my well-worn modified PMBs were barely breaking the surface after repeated kicks, my feeble aluminum axe good for little more than balance. I needed to escape to softer snow... Full report here.

Andy rests at shore of Lake Annette. Booting up the West Face. Sergio with Silver Peak summit behind.
Andy skies down from the ridge. Skiing in Silver's north bowl.

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