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MCGOWN PEAK (0) Elevation: 9,860 ft
One of the more famous mountains in the Sawtooths with classic alpine skiing lines. This is the main peak in that you can see from the road behind stanley lake.
April 20, 2011
Submitted By DannyIrie
April 20, 2011
Submitted By DannyIrie
February 26, 2011
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February 25, 2011
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February 24, 2011
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February 13, 2011
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December 31, 2010
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January 22, 2010
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Dannyirie: April 20, 2011 Uphill: 0 ft. | Downhill: 0 ft.
Is it April or January? Full on winter here in the Sawtooths! Enjoy this latest post from skiing the classic Heyburn couloir....[view]
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Earnsturns: February 27, 2011 Uphill: 1,600 ft. | Downhill: 3,200 ft.
Last day of our yurt trip at Williams. Skied north east and south east facing runs that still had great snow, then came out of the yurt. A great trip in an amazing place....[view]READ MORE
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Earnsturns: February 26, 2011 Uphill: 4,200 ft. | Downhill: 4,200 ft.
3rd day of yurt trip at Williams yurt. It cleared up but stayed cool and the snow was still awesome on all aspects. Saw a few small point releases off of south facing steep rocky areas but otherwise...[view]
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Earnsturns: February 25, 2011 Uphill: 3,600 ft. | Downhill: 3,600 ft.
2nd day at Williams yurt. Dug a pit on a south facing slope with moderate failures on CT and no propagation failures on ECT. We still took it easy and didn't go on anything over 30 because of 2 feet...[view]
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Earnsturns: February 24, 2011 Uphill: 2,700 ft. | Downhill: 1,100 ft.
This was the first day of a four day trip into Williams Yurt. They had just received about 2 feet of snow within the last week after not having any major accumulation for about 6 weeks. We didn't go...[view]
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Earnsturns: February 13, 2011 Uphill: 3,200 ft. | Downhill: 3,200 ft.
We skied some really good snow in the southern end of the range in a 9000 foot basin and there hasn't been any major snowfall for about six weeks. The rocky chutes we skied were NE and E facing and i...[view]
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Freeheelgirl: January 26, 2011 Uphill: 2,800 ft. | Downhill: 2,800 ft.
Same stable snowpack as yesterday (1/25), roughly the same temp, no wind, but lots of sun - perfect bluebird powder day. Starting to get some sun crusts & heavy corn in places. Didn't see any slides...[view]READ MORE
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Freeheelgirl: January 25, 2011 Uphill: 2,800 ft. | Downhill: 2,800 ft.
Overcast, 26 degrees, no wind. Stable snowpack with low avy danger, with about 8 inches of light fluffy powder on top....[view]READ MORE
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Earnsturns: December 31, 2010 Uphill: 3,300 ft. | Downhill: 3,300 ft.
Skiing with shredvisions....[view]
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Shredvisions: December 31, 2010 Uphill: 6,600 ft. | Downhill: 6,800 ft.
-25 degrees when we started!!! OUCH... but it was worth it. There are not too many days when I can say that I skied negative degree powder. It was still light and deep from our last storm a few day...[view]READ MORE
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Gripnrip: December 31, 2010 Uphill: 2,300 ft. | Downhill: 2,300 ft.
about 2 feet of new snow from last storm, many small naturals (6-8" crowns) observed, but nothing big was moving....[view]READ MORE
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Freeheelgirl: March 7, 2010 Uphill: 2,000 ft. | Downhill: 2,000 ft.
It was warm, warm, WARM out! Super-sunny day, temps pushing the high 30's at noon at 8,000'. Dust-on-crust, with plenty of afternoon whoomphing on sunny slopes as the crust settled. We kept to mode...[view]READ MORE
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Freeheelgirl: March 5, 2010 Uphill: 1,800 ft. | Downhill: 1,800 ft.
South-facing slopes had a thick, supportable crust under 4-6" of new snow. Temp was 34F, which created less stable conditions later in the day. Skiing was GREAT on moderate slopes!...[view]READ MORE
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Freeheelgirl: February 5, 2010 Uphill: 2,800 ft. | Downhill: 2,800 ft.
Sweet fresh powder on top of a well-consolidated snowpack, with a deep, ground-level layer of unstable hoarfrost. We avoided >35-degree north aspects (and within a week, a slide occurred just below w...[view]
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Ketchum, IDAHO, UNITED STATES
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