In the South Sierra last week. Photo courtesy Keith Bates.
Luv the waterfallIn the South Sierra last week. Photo courtesy Keith Bates. View attachment 74972 trt
Short party laps off Chinook Pass in the sun today. Best day ever (except for the part where my binding broke)
What happened (looks like plastic failure?)? I have the same binding and had problems with a heel piece last weekend...I couldn’t click in/get the heel to engage. Thought it was user error, but now I am thinking the tension somehow got messed up.
There are two wire nubs that used to wrap around that metal piece sticking up. It just sheared at some point between the summit block carry and transitioning to ski down, but worked fine on the skinner up.
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So the brakes could not stay locked in the up position? How did you fix it?
It definitely weeds out the wannabes!Quite the dry hump in - well done sir!
This was supposed to be a Rainier descent post, but a June-uary cold snap and advice from the climbing rangers about packing our ice screws convinced us to hold off for another year. Switched destinations to Adams since a few friends hadn't skied it, and the warmer weather and sun gave us a bit more hope for corn. Carried for the full 6.6k of climbing and the suncups on the descent were my personal hell. At least we picked the right volcano - trip reports off the Emmons sounded decidedly worse. View attachment 76392 View attachment 76393 View attachment 76394
Penitentes - Spanish for crappy snow.
Suncups on their way to being penitentes...