"We write a tale of adventure with our thoughts and actions every day. And it's a story that we don't get the opportunity to edit and rewrite. The first draft is the final draft. Let's write it well." – Royal Robbins
Every year for the last 7 years I've been ringing in the New Year on the right foot at Paradise and this year we incorporated camping on Mazama Ridge to our annual snowshoe/skin trip. The last few months I spent designing and building my pulk system to drag along with us. We had a couple of options for …
Well, today was a compromise. Our plans kind of changed at the last minute the night before. I wanted to just go to Paradise to go skin before the next storm, albeit I'm not a fan of going by myself, and Lyss wanted to take the dogs out. Mia apparently had a cut …
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After a week of roller coaster weather... Super cold dry powder for weeks, then some unusually clear and cold nights to create all sorts of fun things going on with our snowpack, followed by a warming cycle with rain on snow, and some freezing rain and a lot of wind... Basically it has been a waiting …
The plan for the day was to drive up to Paradise, and do a really low angle tour toward Glacier Vista with Tim coming along on snowshoes. The objective was a few snow pits and lots of observations in safe terrain to look for the potential buried weak layers causing the high and considerable avalanche forecasts in safe locations with some beacon …
A birthday celebration in the snow! After much deliberation, and a rollercoaster of freezing levels and epic proportions of precipitation over the week prior to the event... We decided to go snowshoeing toward Artist Point if conditions permitted. The weather which was supposed to let up, in true North Cascades fashion had a different plan! …
Adventures Through The Looking Glass 