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catwoman Member
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 888 | TRs | Pics Location: somewhere near Tacoma |
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Sat Feb 02, 2002 11:59 am
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Shoot! It was supposed to rain today! I cancelled snowshoeing plans! How the heck am I actually supposed to accomplish anything at home when it's beautiful outside!? I sure hope the mountains are socked in.
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Tom Admin
Joined: 15 Dec 2001 Posts: 17835 | TRs | Pics
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Sat Feb 02, 2002 12:05 pm
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The cascades look clear as a whistle from my house, even Baker. Oh well, looks like a good day to test out the hammock in back .
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Alan Bauer Member
Joined: 11 Jan 2002 Posts: 942 | TRs | Pics Location: Fall City, Washington |
My God, what weather source are you using?
The National Weather Service in Seattle has had a pretty good forecast out for Saturday since at least Thursday afternoon...only mention of rain was for late in the day. Even they aren't nearly as good as private forecasting folks around here who charge for forecasts for growers and farmers in Eastern WA all the way to Napa Valley, but they were right this time!
Or, just make your own forecast using web sources the night before any outting...water vapor images and so on will tell you a great deal except how fast the stuff is moving in on us.
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McPilchuck Wild Bagger
Joined: 17 Dec 2001 Posts: 856 | TRs | Pics Location: near Snohomish, Wa. |
Indeed, it was a beautiful day though I worked up north in Marysville. The mountains looked fantastic: Baker was stunning! Higgins, Whitehorse, Bullon, Three Fingers, Big Bear, Liberty, Pilchuck, and on down to Baring and Index were all magnificent...what a view. Now, I hear it will cloud up and rain for a few?
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McPilchuck Wild Bagger
Joined: 17 Dec 2001 Posts: 856 | TRs | Pics Location: near Snohomish, Wa. |
Thread drift...on occasion I see I must log back in as a the precious post showed unregistered? Anybody have that problem even when you posted the day before? maybe it's the weather change?
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scot'teryx Armchair Alpinist
Joined: 27 Dec 2001 Posts: 183 | TRs | Pics Location: Livin' large in Mill Creek |
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Sat Feb 02, 2002 5:55 pm
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It was an awesome day snowshoeeing!
We went up near Surprise Lake by Stevens Pass.
Blue skies, great snow, and good company.
Too bad McPilchuck had to work.
We thought of you, and I thought of my friends that went up Pilchuck today, and can't wait to hear how it went!
What to do tomorrow?......................
I know! Granite Mtn!
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Mike Collins Member
Joined: 18 Dec 2001 Posts: 3086 | TRs | Pics
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Made it to just above 7,000' by taking the chairlift at Crystal. A good wind up there and lots of spindrift flowing down the glaciers on Rainier. Maybe if they would put a chairlift on Pilchuck I would go up there.
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Sat Feb 02, 2002 10:10 pm
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Too late for Pilchuck, Mike. Maybe 25 years ago. Hey, the snow up Mason Lake area was fluffy, not stuffy today.
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lopper off-route
Joined: 22 Jan 2002 Posts: 845 | TRs | Pics
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Sat Feb 02, 2002 10:35 pm
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Yeah, the Mt Pilchuck Ski Area. My scout troop snow-camped next to one of the highest lift pylons in 1971. (April) It was closed for the season at the time, and closed for good the next year if I remember right.
Can't blame the weathermen. They look at the same satellite photos as everybody else. That would be a hellish job--wearing a suit on camera and having to stretch thimble-fulls of data to fill 8 or 9 onscreen minutes (with giggly banter of course.) If you live around here, you learn to drop plans and GO when the weather turns nice.
Today was a last-minute snowshoe up the Palisades Trail off 410. We got bombed by sun-loosened snow clumps and drips.....
Perfect conditions for sloppy, big-stepping switchback cutting.
Excellent lenticulars downstream from Rainier all afternoon.
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catwoman Member
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 888 | TRs | Pics Location: somewhere near Tacoma |
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Sat Feb 02, 2002 10:57 pm
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Yes, I know about the last minute thing. Do that all the time - particularly in summer - which is why I end up having to go by myself so much. However, this weekend's snowshoe trip was with someone who doesn't happen to own a pair of snowshoes so has to rent. Plus she was trying to arrange it so another friend of hers could go. So, the plans got put off, because of the weather reports, for Sunday. Hopefully weather will be good to us tomorrow.
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Backpacker Joe Blind Hiker
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 23956 | TRs | Pics Location: Cle Elum |
Ole Lopper looks like he's got a pic of Twin lakes there. That is a beautiful hike. Great vistas going in, great lakes. Bummer of a road march though!
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
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Joined: 17 Dec 2001 Posts: 2197 | TRs | Pics
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Sun Feb 03, 2002 7:58 am
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