Trip Reports Backcountry photos, videos, patch skiing and other stoke!

Analisa · Jul 5, 2019

Celebrated SKINdependence Day on the recently opened north side of Rainier, up on the Flett Glacier. Drive up was a total white out, and I was worried we’d have to resort to our backup plan (mattress shopping at ikea on a quiet holiday), but the skies opened up within a mile of the trailhead. Long carry in, but the blooming fields of avalanche lilies were a welcome distraction. We planned to get up to the Russell glacier where corn conditions were reportedly prime, but clouds were starting to move in from both sides of Ptarmigan ridge, so we turned around at Observation Rock and got down ~15-20 minutes before conditions were socked in. Suncups were shallow and easy to push through. Not bad for what’s probably my last day of the season.

Jim Kenney · Jul 5, 2019

Recent article in Wall Street Journal on patch skiing in California. Features Stev and Jamie, do those two post on PugSki?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/that-t...ts-a-perfect-run-for-patch-skiers-11562260676

dbostedo · Jul 5, 2019

Jim Kenney said:
Recent article in Wall Street Journal on patch skiing in California. Features Stev and Jamie, do those two post on PugSki?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/that-t...ts-a-perfect-run-for-patch-skiers-11562260676

Yes, @Stev does!

His patch skiing seasonal thread is here

https://www.pugski.com/threads/patchskiing-2019-edition.15611/

Mothertucker · Jul 15, 2019

Slashing the SoCal firn!

Grab from video, K.Bates, 3/29/19.

Mothertucker · Jul 31, 2019

Eastern Sierra backcountry, in b&w to show my tracks. 5/30/19, photo by Keith Bates.

Mothertucker · Aug 7, 2019

Moon over Mt. Jepson, San Bernardino Mts. California, 4/26/19.

Mothertucker · Sep 30, 2019

Analisa · Oct 20, 2019

It’s ski season in the Cascades (if you were wise enough to remember your skin wax)

SBrown · Oct 20, 2019

Analisa said:
It’s ski season in the Cascades (if you were wise enough to remember your skin wax)
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ahhh I feel your pain

4ster · Oct 20, 2019

Analisa said:
It’s ski season in the Cascades (if you were wise enough to remember your skin wax)
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Hey, at least the skins stayed on the skis ogwink

This is as close as we got to ski season but at least it wasn’t shorts weather

Tricia · Oct 22, 2019

This thread is a couple years old. Can we start a new one for this season so things don't get buried?
I'm open to the thoughts of those who post here most.

4ster · Oct 22, 2019

Tricia said:
This thread is a couple years old. Can we start a new one for this season so things don't get buried?
I'm open to the thoughts of those who post here most.

Since the thread is not 100 pages long, I would like to keep the same one going for historical value. For me it also serves as a record of past conditions. Besides @Analisa is already getting after it!
:snow:

Thanks

Mothertucker · Oct 22, 2019

I agree, keep it here for now, hard enough to get people to contribute, pre-existing thread might make it easier.

Tricia · Oct 22, 2019

All good!

Kemperski · Oct 31, 2019

I hope to be posting up some TR's come early December when I will be in CO for a week. I often buy a southwest ticket on hopes of an exceptional start then cancel (southwest allows that with no penalty) if the goods are slow in delivery.

If Nov. can live up to the standard set by Oct. Berthoud and Monarch Pass will be in the mix, can't wait and would love to see details about anyone else's early excursions!

Mothertucker · Nov 4, 2019

With a dry forecast, I'm going back to post more pics from last season. These are from an overnighter into the San Gorgonio Wilderness in southern California, April 25/26 2019.