prestonf

Sad news. She charged and was an inspiration!

John, Kyle, and whoever else, I’m going to poke around xtal on wed. if you’re free.

stoked!

pm, call, etc.

p out.

Sweet!

Intuition liners would be a must. I’ve never waterproofed my softboots with snoseal or the like, but maybe that would help a little?

If you’re going on a self-supported expedition and moving camps, hauling sleds, carrying all of your own gear, and wanting to keep all of your toes, hardboots would be my choice.

If you’re getting dropped…[Read more]

That’s a proud line Russ. Good job. And don’t beat yourself up about a little side-slipping here and there. You gotta live in the moment and do what feels right to YOU at the time and get down in one piece.

I like your enthusiasm, and it’s nice to see you guys with tools and harnesses, especially since you didn’t climb it first.

But UTAH…[Read more]

Yea, it seems like the e. side has been spared the warm-ups. I bet the Colchuck area was good this weekend!

Well alright!!!

If you’re coming from out of town, be mentally prepared for steep terrain and dd-eep snow!!!

Some stoke from early November:

http://vimeo.com/7651532

Unfortunately I don’t think I’ll be around for the splitfest 🙁 .

john tied in with a bowline on a coil so he could be on belay while he stomped around on that cornice in case it broke off behind him. It’s a way to tie into a rope if you have a rope but no harness. Not recommended though!

http://www.brmrg.org/knots/FTL/coil.html

(he was also the only one who remembered it.)

We wanted to cut the cornice just…[Read more]

I guess we loosened up that cornice pretty good. Maybe it finally came down over the weekend 😉 .

Way to point it.
@jcocci wrote:

D-GREEN, that shot of the tracks in the volcanic ash is classic. Kinda reminds me of some of the weird stuff I’ve ridden through.

You could make turns through the needles, just had to watch out for branches, trees, etc.

After the first snows of September, the tops of the huge suncups hadn’t been covered yet on the bottom of the muir snowfield.…[Read more]

Cascades:

most of the good stuff around here requires a hike out, but there are some exceptions.

Mt. Snoqualmie across the street from Alpental. 1400 ft couloirs on the backside with a 3000+ ft run down the phantom slide path back to the car.

Mt. Rainier. Fuhrer Finger from summit to the Nisqually bridge. 10,000 ft. (I haven’t done this.)…[Read more]

Yea, count me in too. I’ve enjoyed snowsavage’s TRs and, especially, his rants. Cool pics are awesome, but a quality rant kicks it up a notch! It’s really interesting to see the terrain that people are riding in Japan, AK, and other more ‘exotic’ locales along with the ‘standard’ CA, UT, PNW, CO stoke. Our crappy conditions here have me pretty…[Read more]

I think he’s out of town for work. What did he do?

Check your messages.

Guye E. Face couloir this year fo sho…

@bcrider wrote:

@prestonf wrote:

vid

Looks like a fun line prestonf! 8)

Thread drift…

It was interesting to see you stomp on the snow and enter that on your toeside, I always feel more comfortable on my heelside in that same situation.

I ride hard boots and feel like I have better edge control/feel on my toeside, so often like to enter and…[Read more]

I like this topic.

I agree that “good style” is smooth and easy, yet powerful (ala CK). I think that Jeremy Jones often looks a little out of control because the stuff you see him riding on film is truly steep and on the edge of what’s turnable. That dude is smooooth on mellower pow slopes.

I certainly wish my style was a little calmer and…[Read more]

Spicolli, I haven’t made it to the n. side of adams yet either. Maybe this year the weather etc will align? I wanted to head up there last year, but it never seemed worth it…I’ve been dying to take a look at the nfnwr and ride it in good condition (I get scared on ice). Looking for a partner??

But, yea, I guess I tend to do me some split…[Read more]

Yea, depends on when you go; the times I’ve done the sw chutes there was still lots of snow down low and the trail was under a couple of feet; when that’s the case, most people traverse back over to the bottom of the normal climbing route…

Some routes (like the sw chutes) require a skin out that would suck booting since the morning’s frozen corn has turned to knee deep mush.

Not in the bay area, but seattle fabrics ships.

Sweet trip.

@SanFrantastico wrote:

Beauty shot.

Hey, that’s cool, it kinda looks like Forbidden Peak in WA.

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