Feb 9, 2013, Blewett Pass, Bojangle/Tronsen Ridges
2/9/13
WA Cascades East Slopes Central
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We went from... well, at least the view is good...
to "dirting"
to this is looking a little better...
to THIS!
to "dirting"
to this is looking a little better...
to THIS!
Sorry to hear Blewitt wasn't everything you wanted. It was a beautiful day from the look of your pictures. Snow usually comes pretty reliably from Thanksgiving through December and then the storms don't make it there as often. Look at Mission Ridge's snow depths and you'll see that 50 inches is a good base there (and it's high). I think I know the area you skied. I approached it from a logging road to the north a few weeks ago but the snow was very bad so I didn't go all the way up to the tower.
Here's a picture of the cell tower I took from about a 1/4 mile farther up the gated road on the north side. I skied only 1/3 of the slope that day as the snow was terrible and it was getting late. Was that the place? I've been wanting to go back with more/better snow.
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Sorry to hear Blewitt wasn't everything you wanted.
Nah, it was a great day! And would have been even if we hadn't found the good snow; the sunshine couldn't be beat.
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Here's a picture of the cell tower I took from about a 1/4 mile farther up the gated road on the north side. I skied only 1/3 of the slope that day as the snow was terrible and it was getting late. Was that the place? I've been wanting to go back with more/better snow.
That looks like the second (and best) slope that we skied. There's a road (possibly the same road?) that loops up to the cell tower, and we skied the north-facing slopes directly under that road. The first 300-400' was great powder, below that (also due to shifting our aspect a bit) started to develop some breakable crust. If we'd skied that top section earlier in the day, we would have lapped it it was so nice.
Let me know next time you come over. I have a cabin10 miles down the road and can often give condition reports. I'm sure that's the same road (211) that I went up. It has parking access about a mile down from the Summit and it's about a mile on the road till the slope has enough room between the trees. Pretty good approach to be able to ski a nicely angled north slope at that elevation!
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