Ok, I really will get the Italy posts up soon. Until then I thought I would put up a quick post about this past weekend. The snow has started coming down up in the mountains and it was time to go visit it. The plan was pretty simple. Ross and I headed out of Seattle at 6:30 Sunday morning headed to Mt Baker. We headed up to Heliotrope ridge. This is the same approach I used a few months ago when a group of us climbed to the top of Baker.
There was a lot more snow than I expected. I had to not only be in 4wd to get to the trailhead but I also had to put on chains. In November?
We hiked the first little bit and started with a sketchy river crossing but past that we split the boards and skinned up. It took about two and a half hours to get to the toe of the glacier and we climbed for about two hours past that. It was slow going due to the wind moving around the snow. Some places were were knee deep super soft snow and then we would round a bend to a wind scoured face that we had to be very careful to keep an edge on.
After two hours of climbing the day was getting late and the weather started to turn on us so we put the splitboards back together and pointed them downhill. What a blast! We dropped 1000ft of elevation gain in no time. The snow was fantastic and neither of us could wipe the smile off of our face at the bottom.
Only a few pictures due to the weather and high winds. Hopefully this is another start to a great season.
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