march 9; the worm flows
3/9/13
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Left at 830 for a casual five and a half hour trip up with Stoltzman, Marley, and Earle. Had to downshift one and use a secondary cooling system as it was hotter than expected.
The snow was not the five stars as one can sometimes be blessed with on this route; however todays trip was restitutive.
Had to four wheel into the parking lot today; a cat pay loader, plow truck, and piston pully sat idle in the corner. Time to teach our young ones how to drop the blade instead of being rude and writing tickets, and finding "smart" woodstoves that burn down log cabins that they don't know how to rebuild.
Once the sun hits the blacktop the snow will all melt and the roads will be dry till the next snow.
Respectfully submitted,
Kenny
The snow was not the five stars as one can sometimes be blessed with on this route; however todays trip was restitutive.
Had to four wheel into the parking lot today; a cat pay loader, plow truck, and piston pully sat idle in the corner. Time to teach our young ones how to drop the blade instead of being rude and writing tickets, and finding "smart" woodstoves that burn down log cabins that they don't know how to rebuild.
Once the sun hits the blacktop the snow will all melt and the roads will be dry till the next snow.
Respectfully submitted,
Kenny
The road and parking lots were indeed crazy full yesterday with climbers and snowmobilers. At 7:30 there were 3 cars stuck, blocking the road. Counted about 70 on the route. Was really surprised how many were still headed after 3pm. Lots of fun being had.
the early morning crowd established a good boot track east of the usual route, splitting right to avoid the steep slope above chocolate falls then onto the ridge parallel to the regular route, the east up the apron onto the next worm flow at about the 4800' level. Started down at 2, staying in the untracked bowls/corridor east of that worm flow for most of the way down. Snow between those flows was packed powder then corn for top 2000-2500', then slush. I'd never skied down that route - fun but if you drop too low, as I did, you have to boot across the ridge to get back on track or do some route finding through the lower lava flows.
john
the early morning crowd established a good boot track east of the usual route, splitting right to avoid the steep slope above chocolate falls then onto the ridge parallel to the regular route, the east up the apron onto the next worm flow at about the 4800' level. Started down at 2, staying in the untracked bowls/corridor east of that worm flow for most of the way down. Snow between those flows was packed powder then corn for top 2000-2500', then slush. I'd never skied down that route - fun but if you drop too low, as I did, you have to boot across the ridge to get back on track or do some route finding through the lower lava flows.
john
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