Adams SW Chutes
8/15/12
WA Cascades West Slopes South (Mt Rainier)
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Heading to Adams today for SW chutes. Anyone skied it recently with conditions advice. I heard from Ranger that it is mostly suncups and not good right now. Going to hope late day sun will make some corn.
Any info...?
Any info...?
We skied it a couple weeks ago.
> snow was alright up top with no real sun cups. once we hit 7,000 the snow quality softened and there were big cups.
> let's say c to d based on my personal history.
> we also didn't know the local's version of "the right way" to exit so we ended up just hiking back over scree.
> lame.
> it was at least a 30 - 40 minute hike to the first patch of continuous snow to skin on.
> my guess is that hike is now at least an 1 hour out.
Here's a slightly embarrassing video we made of the trip. Have fun!
https://vimeo.com/46851452
> snow was alright up top with no real sun cups. once we hit 7,000 the snow quality softened and there were big cups.
> let's say c to d based on my personal history.
> we also didn't know the local's version of "the right way" to exit so we ended up just hiking back over scree.
> lame.
> it was at least a 30 - 40 minute hike to the first patch of continuous snow to skin on.
> my guess is that hike is now at least an 1 hour out.
Here's a slightly embarrassing video we made of the trip. Have fun!
https://vimeo.com/46851452
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