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February 4, 2012, Stevens Pass, Seven Peaks Tour

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Posted by ADappen on 2/7/12 6:17am
Traversed with Tom Janisch and Chris Sheridan from Stevens Pass to Union Peak skiing seven 'peaks' (bumps really) along the Cascade Crest. We logged a respectable amount vertical and skied both respectable and unrespectable snows.

The tour took us into three counties and, naturally, the sugar snows of Chelan County completely humiliated the sucky snows of King and Snohomish counties. Or did they?

Snow stability ranged from good to gooder, while the scenery ranged from awesome to most awesome in the highest.

A map and magazine-styled article about the tour, which we were calling the Seventh Heaven Tour (playing off the chairlift at Stevens, you know), 
Wow, that is a lot of gain!
Thanks for the 'age appropriate' skin track up McCausland ;)

Just to confuse you, we doubled the pitch of our normal geriatric skin track. Did you end up skiing out Smith Brook or Yodelin?

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naturally, the sugar snows of Chelan County completely humiliated the sucky snows of King and Snohomish counties.


Chelan County snow rules! 
King County snow drools! 
Snohomish County snow blows!

You guys are king studs.  Thats a nice bit of work!

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Did you end up skiing out Smith Brook or Yodelin?


Smith Brook - best snow of the day, although a few in our group (ok, just Gabriel) were knocked to the ground by the jet fighters over head!

Great looking tour. Thanks for posting

Mike, you're taking the county thing to the next level. I don't think anyone will  look at a map to surmise our best snow was in King County, our next-best snow in Snohomish, and our absolute worst snow in , ahem, sunny Chelan County. No matter, we can keep the myth alive (ala denial of climate change) through misinformation.

Dicey, fun running into your group. Gabriel seems to have figured out something that eludes us in finding such charming travel companions. Nothing charming about our little band of goats.

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