Kendall Trees
Jan 22nd, 2012 | By rob
With avy worries fairly high, Stefan and I decided to head into the trees in search of ample powder and fresh lines. Our location must have been a wise choice, as we ran into at least eight other groups.... The snow was fantastic, and the heavy snow and winds kept us from venturing out of the...
Full backcountry trip reportBullion Basin
Jan 7th, 2012 | By rob
Mike and I made the drive down to Crystal for a tour around Bullion Basin. Mike had explore the area a couple of years ago, while this was new and unchartered territory for me. We followed the skin track up to the high point above the Basin and descended back into the Basin. Skiing above 6,000ft...
Full backcountry trip reportNorth Side of Kendall
Dec 23rd, 2011 | By rob
Mike and I took the scenic route up across Coal Creek and through Kendall Lakes. A group had attained the ridge before us, and their track veered right towards the double barrelled chutes, so we went left. We scouted a couple of ways down, all of which looked a little crusty - our descent was...
Full backcountry trip reportChair Peak Coolies
Mar 27th, 2011 | By rob
I meet Stefan and Will at the Alpental parking lot with ambitions of skiing Kaleetan Peak, but the weather was looking iffy. We made our way to Source Lake, up and over Bryant and had a challenging ski down to Melakwa Lakes. We conversed for a good bit on whether or not to press on to Kaleetan, and...
Full backcountry trip reportFun and Sun in The Slot
Mar 19th, 2011 | By rob
I put a post out on turns-all-year.com for a partner and Stefan shot me a PM saying he was interested in skiing the Slot. We arrived at the parking lot and to our amazement, no one else had yet started skinning up Mount Snoqualmie. We laid in a skin track, able to somewhat follow an earlier track....
Full backcountry trip reportBox Canyon
Feb 21st, 2011 | By rob
Monday off of work, and time to get out in the mountains to play. Forecast was calling for low vis and some flurries, but we decided to make a go for a nice tour Trevor put together.
Started from Gold Creek, and found some nice snow on the ski down to Lake Lillian. Skins back on, we...
Red Mountain
Feb 19th, 2011 | By rob
Getting a late start, we made our way through the Commonwealth with a couple of other groups trailing. After following up the skin track to the bench below the face of Red, we ran into a group from Pro Guiding Service just starting to head up towards Lundin. There was a group of two ahead of us...
Full backcountry trip reportSilver Creek Basin
Jan 22nd, 2011 | By rob
Seems like all my tours have been on Kendall lately. There's so much fun terrain on Kendall, it's hard to stay away... I was rolling solo for the day, and with low avalanche danger and poor skiing conditions, I decided to scout a route on Kendall I had been thinking about. I started off at...
Full backcountry trip reportKendall Memorial Tour
Jan 9th, 2011 | By rob
Dale had some sad news to share about a death of a friend that weighed us down. But we made the best of a bad day, and did a couple of laps behind the cabin. The first lap was nice, and by the time we reached the top of the clearcut for the second lap, there was deep pow waiting for us. I didn't...
Full backcountry trip reportKendall Peak Lakes
Dec 20th, 2010 | By rob
Trevor, Peter and I headed up through the Commonwealth basin and onto Kendall in search of some good snow. Our first descent into Kendall Lake was ok, but the snow quality was inconsistent. We discovered the goods on our second and third...
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