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Mt. Shasta Casaval Ridge This Weekend

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My climbing buddy (known in some circles as Peerzat) is flying in from Minneapolis tomorrow morning. We're gonna head up to Shasta for a climb/ski descent. This is one of my favorite ski descents anywhere - 7000 vertical feet of awesomeness from summit to car.

And it looks like some perfect spring conditions may be setting up for us. Hopefully we'll hit the timing right so that every inch of that 7000 feet is corn. Temps are supposed to be in the 70-80s in the town of Mt. Shasta. But you never know on the upper mountain. 

We're gonna climb Casaval Ridge and most likely descend Avalanche gulch. I've already done a solo climb and ski descent of Avy Gulch and I solo climbed the Hotlum-Wintun Ridge route last summer.

So... I'll be signing off for a couple of days but I'll of course be back with with a trip report. 

April 17, 2009 in Avalanche, Backcountry skiing, Mountaineering, Ski mountaineering | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Video: Wet Slide Avalanche in the Tetons

Wow this is sobering. All those warm spring days when you figure... eh, there's no real avy danger today, right? Well... this reminds you to never ever let your guard down.   

Via TetonAT:

April 13, 2009 in Avalanche, Backcountry skiing, Ski mountaineering, Video | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

   

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