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Topic: April 19, 2011, Chair Peak, Northeast Buttress (Read 7257 times)
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tabski
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On Tuesday, April 19th Dan H. and myself skied Chair Peak via the Northeast Buttress.
The route was very filled in, with the bottom ice step only about 10m long and the upper ice step around 3m. Elsewhere conditions were 3''-12'' of freshly fallen fluff over the ~3'' thick breakable rain crust which formed the previous Saturday. There were easy shears above and below the rain crust, but we were blessed with perfect April weather; mostly cloudy with occasional sun breaks thus preventing any serious warming which would have definitely sent us packing.
We skied from the summit and were able to ski the upper ice step before rappelling (skis on) about 20m at the lower step. A sticky but enjoyable ski to the car concluded our day.
Image from skisickness.com.
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Sweet! Nice work Drew & Dan -- sporty stuff.
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Zap
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WOW, great TR and photos.
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Stefan
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You continue to defile ice climbs by skiing down them!
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Mtraslin
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Good one.....Beautiful....
What Stefan said!!!
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Impressive, thanks for the TR and photos.
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hedonaut
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you buggers! had my eye on that for a while now...
well played, nice timing.
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Mofro
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damn impressive backyard skiing guys.
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not always bad
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~Link~
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Wow. 
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Snow Bell
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That's a beauty line.
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Life is going to slide by you one way or another
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gravitymk
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Fantastic stuff, amazing line, well done sirs!
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"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro"
Hunter S. Thompson
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tele.skier
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Thanks! incredible,....
Why isn't there someone out there doing documentary filming of this kind of thing? Perhaps, I am obsessed with both skiing and the mountains in general, but I am intigued by every aspect of this kind of adventure. I find it inconcievable that there is not market to produce and broadcast this type of ski mountaineering on film.
Instead, our television gives us a bunch of pimple face kids with their pants falling down, holding up cans of 'Mountain Dew' at the bottom of some half pipe.
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the fall line is your friend.... resistance is futile
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andyski
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Pure awesome. Photo #3 is perfect.
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Agreed on photo #3. Steep face that rolls off steeper to empty space :-)
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Plinko
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Rad! Is that a plastic shovel in pic #2? Good work guys!
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Strong work, men! Nice job.
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Just plain awesome. Thx for sharing.
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so, is that a first ski descent of the full length of the route (with rappel)? maybe it's a stupid question but i've only heard of sky sjue skiing the upper face and bailing due to conditions. any other record of ski descents? lowell? very jealous btw, nice job.
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Kenji
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Another view yesterday on our way to Roosevelt...
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runcle
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Punks!
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so, is that a first ski descent of the full length of the route (with rappel)? maybe it's a stupid question but i've only heard of sky sjue skiing the upper face and bailing due to conditions. any other record of ski descents? lowell?
First ski descent that I know of.
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glenn_b
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Another view yesterday on our way to Roosevelt...
Great pic as usual, Kenji. Thanks.
First descent, really, Lowell? Figured some Alpentalic might have done it back in the day.
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« Last Edit: 04/23/11, 10:42 PM by glenn_b »
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Oyvind_Henningsen
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Dan and Drew - super cool, i have climbed it as an ice climb ;-) Guess i need to get one of those anti gravity suits or something. Congratulations boys!
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Lytt til erfarne fjellfolk!
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