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Mt. St. Helens Article/Video: July 1, 2008

7/15/08
WA Cascades West Slopes South (Mt Rainier)
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Posted by GoldMember on 7/21/08 1:37am
A group of ten of us did the Worm Flows route on July 1.  There was a story in the Spokesman-Review yesterday with a video link too.  The story is here:

http://www.spokesmanreview.com/sports/story.asp?ID=252957&page=1

The video link is here:

http://www.spokesmanreview.com/blogs/video/archive.asp?postID=411

All in all, a great day.  The snow was superb corn, soft and buttery.  We didn't get sticky until about the last 500' of vertical.  I wanted to share this here since there's a reference to TAY as a source in the article that appeared in the paper.  I'd post some pictures but haven't quite figured out how that part works.



Nick BC, Snowbell and I were just ahead of GoldMember's group. Here is a shot that I took of them before they removed their skis from their backs.

I like the article's giving credit to the cameraman's lugging of extra gear and making "double-time" to catch up with crew.  Good shot of some of the glide cracks that are probably very present now...Props to the 70 yr old too!  I hope I can still nail St. Helens when I'm 70!  Whomever was busting out the tele in the video was doing a heck of a job too.

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