TAY South Sister skiing photos: Three Sisters Wilderness, Oregon, backcountry

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	This is a gallery of South Sister skiing 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 two backcountry skiing trips to the summit of South Sister, in the Three Sisters Wilderness Area of Oregon. Both trips were in June, of 2002 and 2004, and featured great weather, corn snow skiing, and views of Middle Sister, North Sister, Broken Top, and Mount Bachelor.
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from April 25, 2005:
South Sister summit ski, Three Sisters Wilderness, Oregon,
June 2002 and June 2004

Through the forest
toward South Sister

Skinning toward South Sister

Skinning

South Sister overview
from Moraine Lake

Skinning near 8200 feet

Middle Sister and North Sister

Jonathan skiing South Sister

South Sister overview
from 6700 feet

Close up: south side
of South Sister

Suncupped snow

Broken Top

Lewis Glacier

Glacial tarn at
base of Lewis Glacier

Mount Bachelor

Ski tracks on Clark Glacier

Ski tracks on South Sister

Ski route photo of South Sister

Looking south from near Three Fingered Jack:
Broken Top, Three Sisters, and Mount Washington

Three Sisters area map

Photos by Jeff Huber

Map source: USGS/Cascades Volcano Observatory

Backcountry skiing trip report: June 21, 2004, South Sister summit ski, Three Sisters Wilderness, Oregon
   Day 4, the final day of Jonathan and Ben's too short Pacific Northwest Volcano trip. We skied the south side of South Sister in Central Oregon. The snow was continuous enough for skinning about a half mile up Hells Creek drainage. Above the drainage the snow was already starting to soften even though it was only around 9am. Jonathan skinned all the way to the top with a short portage over bare rock on the ridge west of the Lewis Glacier while Ben bootpacked a few hundred vertical feet below the ridge of the Lewis Glacier and I started bootpacking about mid-way up the ridge. A lot of the summer trail on the ridge is exposed so it may be most efficient to bring light tennis shoes.
    Ê The skiing on the upper portion was very good however lower down the snow was very saturated. We skied down from the summit and traversed west (skier's right) of the Clark glacier down a short ramp that leads to the plateaus of Moraine Lakes. Ê Ê Ê
    I'm pleased to note that South Sister has more snow on it than it did this same time of year in 2002, though there seemed to be less snow in Hells Creek drainage.
   Jeff

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