Turns All Year backcountry and telemark skiing photos from Mt. Adams North Mt. Adams Wilderness Area, Washington The whole north side of Mt. Adams holds extensive terrain well suited to free-heel telemark skiing, backcountry skiing tours, and waxless skis. These images are from a telemark skiing trip to the north side of Mt. Adams in mid-June. The very smooth snowpack had received just enough new snow the day before to make it completely white, and we found excellent skiing conditions - a thin coat of soft snow on a firm base. During the course of our five day trip, much of the new snow melted and the old dirty snowpack emerged. Volcanic dust often seems to help the snowpack consolidate into perfect corn, however, and the skiing remained great. We found nice runs on the eastern, central, and western parts of the lower Adams Glacier, as well as the Pinnacle Glacier. Metal-edged waxless (fishscale) skis work very well in this terrain and season, allowing the free-heel skier the freedom to ski tour efficiently, ascend without having to use climbing skins, and enjoy telemark skiing descents, all without ever having to remove the skis. < Snoqualmie Pass Photos Snow Images Main W. Cady Ridge Photos > Click any of the photos to view the large version Climbing above camp, with Adams Glacier Telemark skiing above camp Morning sun in camp, north side of Mt. Adams Skiing up western Adams Glacier Telemark skiing 8s on Mt. Adams Summer telemark skiing Cornice and summit of Mt. Adams Approaching central Adams Glacier, with icefall Icefall descends from summit of Mt. Adams Waxless skis make snow travel easy Camp and cloud-covered summit of Mt. Adams Backcountry telemark skiing on fresh June snow Eastern Adams Glacier Figure 8s in dirty snow Telemark skiing, last day Follow this link for more galleries from South Cascades backcountry skiing trips. Follow this link for Mt. Rainier panoramas. Follow this link for other Washington volcano panoramas. Photos ©2006 Turns All Year LLC, www.turns-all-year.com   Please read the full copyright details. To contact turns-all-year.com, use this link.