Ice-Cream-Headache DEEP

The southern slopes of Red Mountain had more than adequate powder.

Lefty tries not to leave any.

MORE POW

Yes folks, more and more powder.

Dave and Ben enjoy a well-placed skintrack.

Phil teles in the deep stuff.

The topo geekery continues, with a new era of consensus and numbers loved by Lefty. More routes, anyone?

http://staff.washington.edu/skykilo/Map/topogk.html

Spastic Topographic

Somebody's been geekin' hard on the topo maps. Have a look at some routes here:

http://staff.washington.edu/skykilo/Map/topogk.html

Can anybody think of more routes they'd like to see on that page?

Stuart Range Again?

New forecast:

Friday is actually looking dry for the most part -- just can't rule out a few rogue showers, but 80% of us or so should be dry through the day. Highs will be around 45.

Who wants to go skiing east of the crest on Friday? Hmmm???

Ski Sickness: Cranial Couloir Cruising

That's right, folks. A new form of SkiSickness, sweeping the Cascades: Ski a steep couloir using your head.

Ski Sickness: Mt Rainier, Cascade Pass

See some revamped webpages with lots of steep ski descents and snazzy new layouts:

Mt Rainier
Cascade Pass

Geography, Anatomy, and Powder

Pretty pictures and some funny commentary

I like this Laura character.

Ski Sickness, Ad Nauseam

Yet another link:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg17323291.300-sickly-slopes.html

"Sickly slopes," the title of the page, gets me all excited.

Now let's get a running compilation of ski sickness resources going on the side here....

Alaska-Baked Corn

Last Friday, four of us were lucky enough to put the clues together for the last best day of corn during our annual January break from winter. Given the clues, Alaska-Baked Corn was as easy as saying your ABCs. New father JC, Ruff, and AA found sweet perfection on 2,500 vertical feet of steep corn.



AA with the hat trick

Fast-and-Light Alpinism on Skis

There is a well-written article by Mike Lewis on the Seattle PI's website here:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/299762_ultralight15.html

One beautiful thing about being a fast-and-light alpinist on skis is that when the weather starts to deteriorate, we can click into our skis and make tracks.