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August 1, 2019, Russell and Flett

8/1/19
WA Cascades West Slopes South (Mt Rainier)
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Posted by Randito on 8/7/19 2:12pm
Yoshiko and I started skinning at 7200 after 5 miles with skis on pack. Skinned to 8600, was able to ski down to CatEye Lake with two portages. 16 mile round trip.











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Wow, that place is gorgeous! I need to visit. Never been. Looks like a nice amount of skiing too.

author=mikerolfs link=topic=42089.msg165524#msg165524 date=1565292533]
Wow, that place is gorgeous! I need to visit. Never been. Looks like a nice amount of skiing too.


We got roughly 2000vft of turns  -- if we had been willing to hike out in the dark (or were faster) the Russell can be climbed another 1000vft higher.  We arrived back at the car at sunset -- for us slow pokes it was about 12 hours car to car.

Thanks a bunch for your post!!

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