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Crystal 9/8/09

9/8/09
WA Cascades West Slopes South (Mt Rainier)
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Posted by Joedabaker on 11/9/09 12:31am
No ski report??
Surprised there were 10,000 skiers there Sunday! The upper lot was full! Well maybe a slight exaggeration on the skier numbers, but there were skiers and splitters everywhere.
All with big smiles on their faces.
I saw many people who I know, got to ski with Kyle Miller, Sag, Jimjar, and Stugie for once, had a great time with them. 
West face (shots) was the best run of the day for me.
Really low cover, hooked a submerged tree above Snakepit and had to wrestle upside-down in concrete to get my Dynafit binding to release.
Front side got sun effected and needs a fresh loading again.
Green valley bowl probably got tracked out by the end of the day from the endless stream up upclimbers, when I was going home.
Unless it snows something, don't expect freshies in the area for Weds opening.
I missed Malachai Constant's report sorry for the rethread!

Awesome day. Great to see you Joe. Lets do it again soon.

It was great sharing the skin track with both of you. Its so funny we have seen each other sooo many times on the mountain yet this was the first time taking turns with you Joe (resort wise). Anyways I look forward to sharing many more powder days with you and anyone else who has a powder addiction.

Yet another version of the day can be found here

Yeah Joeda, it was sweet (Good meeting up with you too Scotty!)  We'll all have to get out again for some turns together...fun times for sure!

author=Stugie link=topic=14387.msg60289#msg60289 date=1257870039]
Yeah Joeda, it was sweet (Good meeting up with you too Scotty!)  We'll all have to get out again for some turns together...fun times for sure!


Always nice to see you and Kyle out and about. Isn't this early snow great!!

Scotsman, I believe I mentioned on Nov 4 that I would send some snow alecapone's way....
no thanks required - enjoy 8)

author=NWBCer link=topic=14387.msg60357#msg60357 date=1257928638]
Scotsman, I believe I mentioned on Nov 4 that I would send some snow alecapone's way....
no thanks required - enjoy 8)

Thanks Gary, very welcomed. Now send more!

OK:

WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO
7 PM PST FRIDAY...

.TONIGHT...CLOUDY STEADY SNOW DEVELOPING OVERNIGHT. SNOW LEVEL
2000 FEET.
.FRIDAY...SNOW CHANGING TO SNOW SHOWERS.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...SNOW SHOWERS LIKELY IN THE EVENING...THEN MOSTLY
CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF SNOW SHOWERS AFTER MIDNIGHT. TOTAL SNOW
ACCUMULATION 5 TO 14 INCHES.
;D

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