8/3/2012, Summerland and Fryingpan Glacier
Left the Fryingpan Creek trailhead quite late (~10:30 AM) and made my way up the trail, finally connecting with Wonderland Trail and climbing into the Goat Cirque (I am not sure it is a proper name) where clicked in my skis. Surely enough soon I spied about 25 goats of all sizes cooling on the snow on this hot August day.
Crossed onto the Glacier after I think 2 short carries and made it almost to the top of Whitman Crest (I was too lazy to climb on the sharp summit rocks). After a snack (supper), had a nice ski down. Snow was suncupped a bit (size B?) and there were a few runnels, but not bad; a bit grabby in dirtier spots. Soon enough I was back on the trail, admiring the wildflowers of the Summerland meadows, and back at the trailhead and car at ~9 pm.
Saw only a few hikers, no skiers.
Link to my GPS
We skinned your route to the S ridge of the cirque the first day, but couldn't see any way on to the Fryingpan through the clouds. Next day we booted slopes above and R of Summerland to 9000' between Meany and Whitman Crests, which looks like right near where you got. Which way did you ski down?
author=ps44 link=topic=25487.msg107686#msg107686 date=1344302132]
Snow was suncupped a bit (size B?)
??? can you characterize that a bit better for me, please? I'm just not getting it..
;D
author=ps44 link=topic=25487.msg107686#msg107686 date=1344302132] Snow was suncupped a bit (size B?)
According to the Official Bra Size website you had barely any sun cups.
http://www.epicfunnypictures.com/funny/define-underwear-bra-size-bikini/
Not quite barely. In my mind, D suncups are really big (almost mogul-sized). C are large, B are not small but not that large and won't bounce you around too much. But it's just my personal scale so don't take it literally.
author=telemack link=topic=25487.msg107689#msg107689 date=1344305405]
Which way did you ski down?
I went straight up to the Whitman Crest and skied down pretty much the same way - on the third picture to the left of the frame, through the gap in the thin band of rocks. From there I dropped down the rollover on the second pictures which leads to the eastern crest of the Goat Cirque (short skin-up required), and then down from there into the cirque on the far right (skier's) - I saw some skiing tracks there, probably from you guys. Earlier in the year, we skied directly from Meany Crest down to Fryingpan creek drainage; this is more gentle but longer route, obviously now going up directly onto Meany crest would require some booting.
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