www.turns-all-year.com Backcountry skiing photos from Naches Peak, Chinook Pass, Washngton Turns All Year: Previous Home Page Galleries This is a gallery of photos which appeared on the Turns All Year home page in the past. Thumbnail images on this page can be clicked to view the full-sized photos, and lead into a slide show sequence for the gallery. The photos are from a backcountry skiing trip to Naches Peak, near Chinook Pass in the southern Washington Cascades Mountains. Breakable crust, and a little good snow, made for interesting skiing. List Galleries            < Older  Browse Galleries  Newer >

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from May 12, 2003: Naches Peak, Chinook Pass, Washington, May 2, 2003 Skinning up Naches Peak false summit, south slope Cornice and Dewey Lake Skinning near Naches Peak false summit Andy and Naches Peak Charles on Naches Peak south slope Charles on Naches Peak south slope Andy in Tipsoo Lake bowl Andy in Tipsoo Lake bowl Andy in Tipsoo Lake bowl Andy in Tipsoo Lake bowl Charles in Tipsoo Lake bowl Looking toward Chinook Pass Andy on Naches Peak west slope Andy in the trees Mt. Rainier view from Chinook Pass Photos by Andy Palunas and Charles Eldridge

Associated trip report: Charles and I headed to Chinook Pass today hoping for some nice spring skiing. We got the nice spring weather but not the nice spring corn. Chinook Pass is still closed so we climbed up along Chinook Creek from just beyond Cayuse Pass then up the west ridge of Naches to the false summit. We descended to the south. The snow here consisted of about 1" of semifrozen crust over more than a foot of mush; Êmost turns broke through the crust. This was not a good thing. Next headed north over the ridge to the north bowl. A steeper pitch here had supportable crust for a few good turns. Lower the crust was weaker. Lastly we checked the northwest shoulder only to find more of the same. This snow needs some consolidation. At least the views and weather were nice. Andy

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