Posts under ‘CBSP’

This past Saturday Erik, Carey, Alisa, Rich (Alisa’s husband) and I all skied the Hog Loppet, a 30k “race” from Mission Ridge outside Wenatchee to Haney Meadows at Blewett Pass. It was a bluebird day with temps in the 40s.

The race covers 18 miles and starts at 6400 feet. The first 3 miles [...]

It has been a fairly dismal snow year here in the Pacific Northwest. Our passes to the Snoqualmie resorts lie crisp and fresh, untouched, in our helmets. Amid the organized chaos of involvement with 3 or 4 Search And Rescue teams between the two of us, we’ve had precious little time to use [...]

Many of you will be familiar with this stuff already, but Aunt Tilley (Margo) wanted a more thorough explanation of the graph in my last post, so I wrote it out for her and figured I might as well put it up here, too.

We took Jessica out for her third backcountry weekend in a row, aiming for the trifecta of difficult skiing conditions. We were lucky to find 15″ of new snow that had been subject to 2 or 3 days of above freezing temperatures and several inches of rain. Had to be some of the [...]

This was a Cascade Backcountry tour, and a beacon/travel education day for a couple of friends who are new to touring.
The very ambitious (and never really serious) plan was to head out the XC trails from Hyak and scoot out to Twin Lakes, then up to ski the east slopes of Silver. Coverage along [...]

This was a Cascade Backcountry Ski Patrol day.
After putting Anastasia on the plane to Panama at six a.m., I was left with a day to fill. The usual suspects were off on other adventures, so I decided to do another recon trip in the Rampart Ridge area, which has become a bit of an [...]

What’s a ski tour without grand plans, smashed on the cliff-riddled shores of unexplored terrain?
I met with Alisa in Issaquah for an exploratory tour up Rampart Ridge, with an eye toward continuing on through the Rampart Lakes area and skiing down into Gold Creek north of Alta.  After stopping at the cache  to get radios [...]