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surfing through the web today i found this first descent. all i gotta say is holy crap!

http://county5.blogspot.com/2012/06/liberty-ridge.html

Wow that's pretty gnarly. Seems like they killed it! Thanks for sharing.

We'll be up on Rainier this week just making turns on the playground that is the Muir snowfield.

Effin' gnarly for sure! Pretty sweet...

fuck yeah!!!! thanx for posting that. i need a window to go north

Looks like a fun line indeed. Who want's to head up there?

thats burly. i would not want to go to rainier, as a ranger died there this week, and theres been a shit ton of new snow and the avy danger is high as fuck. count me out.

Me and my wife are here at the park right now. With the weather window yesterday we rode the Muir Snowfield. The snow was pretty saturated with water and a little bit of a funky layering with a slight crust overlaying a corn layer and then some of the new, water saturated snow on top. It was totally stable though especially on such a low angle slope like Muir.

It made for smooth turns although a bit slow in the afternoon when we descended. There is snow all the way to Paradise so you can skin and ride all the way to your car. The sun cups aren't bad at all down low either, it's more the footsteps you have to watch out for!

Also they were running supplies in and out of Muir while were there all day. And lastly we heard that they were recovering the Ranger's body that day as well. Very sad and it reminds me how lucky we are to have Search and Rescue people out there.

Speaking of skiers getting gnarly on Rainier, anyone see this?

http://www.slcsherpa.blogspot.com/2012/ ... ecord.html
http://www.jasondorais.blogspot.com/201 ... 50057.html

5 hours car to summit car.

Sub 48 hrs house to car to summit to car back to house... where house is in SALT LAKE CITY!

Yep I was there last weekend with the same conditions as aliasptr reported. Watch out under any overhanging ice exposure, big chunks were falling on the nisqually glacier, and up high every 10 minutes or so we would hear a rumble of something coming down, but it was out of sight. The snow was really nice on muir, and a bit sticky below.

So much for that first decent of the nisqually ice fall last year. all though they did have to rap it..

Finally got to see the video last night at a friends house. sick men for sure.