July 6 Adams SW Chutes
7/15/08
WA Cascades West Slopes South (Mt Rainier)
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With friends Steve and Jeremy skied SW Chutes today. Left Cold Springs (now open) at 6:00am. Skied SW Chutes (the left hand chute from above - the only one that is continuous now) after summiting at about 12:30pm. Good corn snow and smooth at the top, a little bumpier from half way but still good. The traverse out is pretty melted out. We descended to the round mtn trail and followed that to the Cold Springs trail but lost it a couple of times in the snow. Another party elected to climb back up to the ridge (ending up somewhere just below Crescent Glacier I think) and got back to Cold Springs 15 minutes earlier than us. Beautiful weather today inspite of the wildfire haze at about 9000'.
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