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July 1, 2011, Three Sisters enchainment

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Posted by silaswild on 7/13/11 7:03am
[quote author=Lowell_Skoog link=topic=21413.msg91833#msg91833 date=1310444599]
... the future of ski mountaineering...  a project being pursued by Oregon skiers is the one-day ski enchainment of the Three Sisters.

Done.  Is this the first time?  http://www.skiingthebackcountry.com/skiing_journal/2888/
its certainly been hiked more than a few times.... the Sisters 'marathon' was a pretty common summertime hike/climb among U of Oregon folk when I went to school there in the 90's. 
I believe that the marathon has been done (on foot) sub-24 hours including the Sisters, The Husband, Broken Top, and Bachelor.

I don't know if it has been skied in a day before.

This 2009 NWMJ article by Kevin Grove described attempts to ski the route in a day. From the article, you get the impression that it hadn't been done yet at that time:

http://mountaineers.org/NWMJ/09/091_ThreeSisters.html

Kevin Grove and a friend just recently  skied a five peak traverse in like 3 hours ;-). Apparently on the same day as the above post....

http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1026057

On reading Kevin's 2009 NWMJ article again, it's clear he was attempting a four-peak traverse in that story. So perhaps the three-peak traverse was skied some time ago.

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