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November 25, 2010
Submitted By mackieimages
November 25, 2010
Submitted By mackieimages
November 25, 2010
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Seattleslider: September 1, 2012 Uphill: 5,200 ft. | Downhill: 3,100 ft.
Suprisingly cloudy, breezy, and cold. Good corn skiing, long walk to and from the snow....[view]READ MORE
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Seattleslider: August 31, 2012 Uphill: 5,600 ft. | Downhill: 3,500 ft.
Good corn, some three day old new snow above 7000', minimal sun cups. Two hour walk to and from the snow, ouch....[view]READ MORE
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Seattleslider: August 16, 2012 Uphill: 5,700 ft. | Downhill: 3,800 ft.
Amazingly smooth buttery snow, blue skies and cool breeze. Fun summer skiing....[view]READ MORE
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Seattleslider: August 10, 2012 Uphill: 5,400 ft. | Downhill: 3,600 ft.
1800' vertical to get to the snow, but the wildflowers were beautiful and running shoes made the trail soft. Great snow, no cups or grabbiness. Ski bases were red at the end of the day tho, algae?...[view]READ MORE
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Seattleslider: July 17, 2012 Uphill: 5,550 ft. | Downhill: 4,300 ft.
What a variety of ski conditions! 2" mush 8900-8000', then grabby to 6000', then bouncy suncups to 4600'. Walking to 3360'....[view]READ MORE
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Seattleslider: May 15, 2012 Uphill: 3,300 ft. | Downhill: 3,300 ft.
Good corn before mid day, then increasingly slushy. Blue skies, nice breeze....[view]READ MORE
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Seattleslider: May 14, 2012 Uphill: 5,440 ft. | Downhill: 5,440 ft.
Beautiful day, some breeze, just skiable to the car, too warm and slushy snow for real fun....[view]READ MORE
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Seattleslider: November 14, 2011 Uphill: 2,200 ft. | Downhill: 2,200 ft.
Cool temperatures, good visibility, breeze made for variable snow, great coverage to skin and ski car to car....[view]READ MORE
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Seattleslider: November 4, 2011 Uphill: 4,300 ft. | Downhill: 2,800 ft.
Bluebird cold day, 6" light powder on smooth snow of last year. Fresh snow all the way to the car, but no base....[view]READ MORE
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Seattleslider: August 3, 2011 Uphill: 4,600 ft. | Downhill: 4,600 ft.
One more try at Sherman Peak, this time looking at another crossing point for the 8900' crevasse. While we stopped there for a snack, we heard creaking sounds, then the ground shook and part of the e...[view]READ MORE
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Seattleslider: August 2, 2011 Uphill: 4,400 ft. | Downhill: 5,100 ft.
Headed for Sherman Peak from a pleasant 5000' camp. We crossed the crevasse at 8900' with a belay, then found more crevasses at 9400' and decided to call it a day. The first 1500' was smooth crisp c...[view]READ MORE
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Seattleslider: August 1, 2011 Uphill: 2,600 ft. | Downhill: 1,700 ft.
Hiked 800' up the Scott Paul trail, then skinned up to Crag View and beyind. Reasonable skiing on soft small suncups in the early evening....[view]READ MORE
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Seattleslider: July 30, 2011 Uphill: 5,000 ft. | Downhill: 5,000 ft.
Stopped by a crevasse crossing around 8800'. Gotta go back with others. Superb 1" buttered corn for 3000' then cupfest....[view]READ MORE
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Seattleslider: July 29, 2011 Uphill: 3,100 ft. | Downhill: 3,100 ft.
Like yesterday but got 800' higher for more of the good stuff....[view]READ MORE
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Seattleslider: July 28, 2011 Uphill: 2,300 ft. | Downhill: 2,300 ft.
Good 2-3" corn above 5500', hard 8-10" cups 5500'-4000'....[view]READ MORE
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Seattleslider: July 27, 2011 Uphill: 2,200 ft. | Downhill: 2,200 ft.
Low clouds, suncups caused us to end the day after only a couple laps, we need to have sunnier weather or ski higher, maybe tomorrow, surely the weekend....[view]READ MORE
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Seattleslider: July 19, 2011 Uphill: 1,500 ft. | Downhill: 1,500 ft.
Took a chance with the weather, and got a couple suncupped runs in before the clouds and rain arrived....[view]READ MORE
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Seattleslider: July 10, 2011 Uphill: 3,000 ft. | Downhill: 3,000 ft.
Great to be home to cool weather and some clouds, smooth buttery snow too! Showed Table and Mt Herman to some friends who had not been in this side of the Baker backcountry....[view]READ MORE
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Seattleslider: March 6, 2011 Uphill: 6,800 ft. | Downhill: 6,800 ft.
Lake Ann Butte, blue AM, stormy after 4PM. Knee deep old powder. Blue skies in the AM, then moist clouds came in to reduce skiing visibility. Good 10-16" powder on north facing slopes....[view]READ MORE
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Seattleslider: February 21, 2011 Uphill: 3,700 ft. | Downhill: 3,700 ft.
Snowing hard all day, nice knee deep powder....[view]READ MORE
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Seattleslider: February 20, 2011 Uphill: 2,000 ft. | Downhill: 2,000 ft.
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Cutlerwasson: January 1, 2011 Uphill: 5,600 ft. | Downhill: 3,000 ft.
3 Days of touring around the Mt Baker backcountry. Riding on the Shoes Glacier. New Years day sunrise & sunset. 3 days of perfect NW weather....[view]READ MORE
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Cutlerwasson: December 4, 2010 Uphill: 4,400 ft. | Downhill: 5,200 ft.
2 days in the Baker BC.one day touring off of Table Mtn & Blueberry Chutes.2nd day off the backside of Herman Saddlegreat weather both days. Lots of people on 1st day...[view]READ MORE
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Seattleslider: November 18, 2010 Uphill: 2,500 ft. | Downhill: 2,500 ft.
We had 20" dry powder and good friends to show us where to ski so we found no rocks. Surprisingly stable snow but very poor visibility. ...[view]
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