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Took a trip to Mt. Thielsen with two of my buddies last weekend for a rebate of a trip we did last year. We camped at the trailhead Friday night to get an early start saturday. Our goal was to tackle the nw chute on saturday, camp up on the slopes, and then rip Sunday as well. We skinned up to the ridge, set up camp, hit the chute, and ended up shredding back to the car as the sky was looking very unpredictable...

Good times were had!


Friday night at the trailhead. The Crater Lake Rim visible in the background.




Tree huggers




Whiskey vision




Early bird gets the worm.




Drew is Hyped! aren't you?




I spy a chute...




As we gained the west ridge Diamond Peak said "WHATUP!"




Thielsen's NW bowl. Notice there is a crown from a recent wet slab.






In one of chronicracing's recent posts he commented on how our snowpack is comparing to last years. This is a picture of the NW Bowl on 6/24/2011, compared to above, 5/19/12.




Lunch time!




Mt. Scott and Crater Lake to the South.




You gotta go up to get down.




Cool place!!!







Lookin into the chute.




2 planker pretending he is snowboarding....






A well earned refreshment or an advertisement?




Farewell for now.




Hiking back to the car. Can we be done now?




Here is the video from the ride down. Snowboarding isn't the best, but it is still worth a watch.

That is one of the best IPAs I've ever had. I wish I could remember where I got it around here...

Atmosphere! Now your roots are showing. Way to get it, while it's still here to be gotten.

Way to get it done I'm a bit surprised at the lack of snow on the northwest bowl, but it has been rather warm the last couple of weeks......

Nice Morgan! Way to get 'er done. Your POV footage has become a staple in my normal snowboarding footy viewing rotation.

How's the season's video edit coming along?

yeah bud way to seek out some sick!

ninkasi is one of portland's finest

nice line. true springtime fashion. melted away with peppers all around. looks like a fun run

nice TR, and great beverage choice

Was there the week before for a couple days. Rode the South West face and the South ridge. Did you happen to find a pair of skins laying around? unfortionatly they fell off my pack on the way out. Nice work on the chute!

I bet I met the skier that has them. Last Saturday at the N Sister Trailhead I was asked if I had lost split skins on Thielsen.

He was a traveler riding some of the NW volcanoes. I have no idea how get in touch with him.

Thanks for the info. I was going to make a trip back down to look for them but sounds like its to late.

I remember his name was Beau. He works for the Park Service in Big Bend in the winter and Alaska in the summer. He might be on some other forums.

Nice work on the lighting rod of the cascades!

My only beef is that with those great pics of bailey it never even got mentioned!

I love Bailey. Climbed it last spring after a call or email from Buell telling me how easy the access was. I was thinking after the ski-cat closes up for the year it'd be a nice place to base camp. The view across to Thielsen is also inspiring. I have not climbed thielsen yet, but it looks fun!

Good work guys. And cheers to the Total DOM!