Feb 2-3 Tatoosh climbs and turns.
2/2/13
WA Cascades West Slopes South (Mt Rainier)
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Headed out saturday morning with the intentions of camping, climbing and riding. We started up from Narada Falls, hit the bend in the road up top and headed down a few hundred feet to ditch our overnight gear at a nice camp spot. Hit the road again, headed up the skin track, did a CT at about half way up on a nice wind loaded slope, CT16-Q1@8in, with the culprit being a very thin sugary layer. Carefully continued up the castle-pinnacle saddle, did another CT with better results, and proceeded up to solo The Castle, did so, rapped off and rode the sweet corn slope back to the saddle. Rode the rest of the way down on a variety pack of snow, mostly good stuff though, it was a fine saturday. Headed back to camp, slept, got up sunday way too late and decided to go climb Lane via The Zipper, which rocked, except the whiteouts up top. Very stable snow here, powder stash in The Zipper and corn on the south sides. Another wonderful weekend.
Glad it all worked out. Thought about skiing the Zipper Sunday but was worried snow would be marginal, at best. Sound like we should have gone for it!!
Thanks! Yeah, all in all it was pretty good snow.
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