www.turns-all-year.com Mt. Rainier snowboarding photos: fall snowboarding, Muir snowfield, Camp Muir Turns All Year: Previous Home Page Galleries This is a gallery of Mt. Rainier snowboarding 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 trip to Camp Muir and the Muir snowfield on the south side of Mt. Rainier. Fall storms had covered summer's dirty hard snow and we found excellent boarding conditions on a warm bluebird day. List Galleries            < Older  Browse Galleries  Newer >

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from November 14, 2005: Fall snowboarding, Muir snowfield, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, October 21, 2005 Muir snowfield coated with new snow Splitboarding up the trail near Glacier Vista Colorful rocks near the Nisqually Glacier Wilson and Nisqually Glaciers from near Panorama Point Hiking the trail below Panorama Point Crevasses open on the Muir snowfield? Layers of old snow with meltwater above Pebble Creek New Pebble Creek ice cave Skinning up a lower Muir snowfield patch Smooth white snow on the lower Muir snowfield Upper Muir snowfield just below Camp Muir Gibraltar Rock, Cadaver Gap, and Cowlitz Glacier Eric snowboarding just below Camp Muir Fall snowboarding on the Muir snowfield Looking down to the Wilson Glacier Eric carving into the Muir snowfield The snow gets smoother The view down with nice snow Eric Eric snowboarding on the really smooth snow Into the Muir snowfield terrain park Eric hits a lip of new snow in the terrain park Heading down the final snow patch Afternoon light on the Wilson and Nisqually Glaciers Photos by Charles Eldridge Backcountry snowboarding trip report: Fall snowboarding, Muir snowfield, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, October 21, 2004     Met up with Charles for some turns on the Muir snowfield. Weather was excellent. We started skinning at 7400 feet all the way till Camp Muir. To tease us there was a helicopter that made one trip after another, to and from Camp Muir. Our luck, by the time we arrived the copter was gone for break or something. Over all the snow was killer! From Camp Muir to top of Moon Rocks was slightly wind affected and variable. Nice deep pockets to carve into but overall one to four inches of sun baked goodness and crust over a surface with boobie traps. From top of Moon Rocks to the only short carry around 8200 feet, the snow could be described as the best. Couple inches on top of the smoothest surface. Btw mother nature's terrain park is still open but snow was mank near those areas. The rest of the run down to 7400 feet started off with an inch or so on smooth glacial ice. At the bottom of the hill there will be some cracks and depressions to deal with. The sagging snow bridge we used on our way up was still good for the ride down. The rest was dust on ice. Back at the parking lot you could see the lines that Charles and I had left. If the weather holds tomorrow it should be another excellent day!    Eric

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