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April 9, 2005, Newton Creek Canyon, Mt Hood

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Posted by Jeff Huber on 4/9/05 12:30pm
Today was amazing. The snow forecasted for Friday/Friday night never materialized, which ended up working out well. We arrived at HRM at 9. It was a perfect Spring morning, the sky was bright blue and there was a slight chill in the shade. We skinned up the Elk Meadows trail, then up the Newton Creek trail. Skinning thru the woods was very pleasant, we managed to stay on the un-blazed NC TR for most of the way, with a slight bushwack when we lost the TR towards its end. As we got closer to treeline we became aware of enormity of the of the upper east side of Mt Hood with the Wyeast face, the Spider rock formation and the wide, smooth Newton Clark glacier. To our left was Heather Canyon chock full of snow, and to the right was Newton Creek Canyon and To the

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As we headed out of the canyon we stopped to admire our tracks. It was satisfying to see
looks great and completely diferent than what we experienced on the same mountain
we took off from Timberline @ 6:30 am headed up to the palmer glacier, it was cold, cloudy and wind blowing gusts in excess of 60mph. on the way up the galcier we gat a peak of the mountain on rare ocasions until we got to the top of the lift were everything opened up for us. it was a beutiful blue ski day, the wind was still howling we proceeded up the glacierto the devils kitchen snow condition were good.
took off the skis and put on crampons for the hogs back and the trip thru the perly gates, ferm snow and the berg was completely closed and covered. the wind was sheltered in the the devils kitchen area and until we got near the sumit were it was blowning hard again, this is noon, we stayed 15 minutes or so on the sumit we started down. we down climbed a couple hudred feet thru a shoot to the west of the normal route and started skiing downvery nice.
@ 10000' or so the clouds and wind pick up again and a complete white out visability of maybe 30 feet, we were able to find the chair lift and limped down in into the abiss of  the white out until we got to the lodge, the ski area had the Palmer lift closed.

;DThis had to be one of the best trips of the year. ;D Polarhounda, the wind picked up a couple times but died off immediately. For the most part the day was warm and sunny, perfect spring skiing.

Aaron

Cool sequence, Jeff. Was this done using the Photoshop "extract" function as recently mentioned on forum "B"? All we need now is the side-by-side comparision with Bode Miller doing the same turn . . . on Dynafits.

Yup that was done using the Extract filter as discussed on "forum b". It was pretty time consuming to do, but now that I know how to I think it'll be faster in the future.

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