TR: Snowdome, 07/17/05

Gaper Jeffey · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 2634 Location: Tigard, OR

In case you've forgotten, Snowdome is on the northside of Mt Hood. Top black arrow points to its top, bottom arrow shows final patch of turns:

Flowers on the hike:

Views of the Eliot glacier on the skin:

Views of the NF Gullies for Sky:

Aaron at Snowdome's top with Rainier, Adams in the background:

Time to ski. My tracks in the corn:

Aaron skiing:

Me skiing. These photos are dedicated to Shan, who loves looking at poor quality pics of AT skiers, especially when they appear very far away:

(Yes I realize you can barely see me in the last photo, but doesn't the snow look great?)

Aaron hiking next to the Eliot to get to the final snowpatch:

Interesting seracs:

The tracks of our final turns:

One more flower photo:

This was a fun day and I plan to be much more pleasent on TTips now that I have skied. See you again in August, Snowdome!

PS: An important note about saftey:
Snowdome is part of the Eliot glacier complex and there are crevasses. It is important to always take glaciers seriously. That's why for saftey gear I brought a WAP enabled cell phone, so I could still post on TTips if I fell into a crevasse.

In addition you should never joke-around on glaciers. For example, don't stick your ski pole into a crevasse and yell, "Help, help! A Sasqautch is pulling me into a crevasse":

And Yes this photo is staged

Very Happy

Edit to fix typos

batesy · Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 10:53 am Post subject:

Nice!

My kinda TR that one. Lots of pics and you don't have to be a local to appreciate it. Nice little series.

cheers,

Batesy

Bob T · Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 12:38 pm Post subject:

GJ, what is this? Yet more photos of skiers? Route descriptions? Good photos of cool terrain features? Closeups of flowers? Humor? My god man, get a grip.

Nice TR!

wow · Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 12:54 pm Post subject:

I'm with Bob T. I spend yesterday learning about the sport of trail running or ultra, on dirt, occasionally fighting the way through downed timber on trails from winter slides and turn on the computer this morning to find someone has been skiing actual corn snow with pics and on big mtns in the northwest. supposedly having the worst snow year in the last twenty and the legs are sore from 30 miles of........

Yeah get a grip, man. Thanks for the pics.
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mntfreak · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 234 Location: NEPDX

Exactly what i wanted to see. I haven't even got my coffee yet and I am posting. (well the boss is away this week Very Happy

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I love snowdome it has been a couple of years since i have been up there but it is good to see it is true to form. Nice pictures.

what time did you start down?

funhog · Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 4:02 pm Post subject:

skiing in a tshirt, you gotta love it!
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trackhead · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 2518 Location: Following Maynard

Sasquatch LIVES!

I thought this was a TR about Snowdome on the Columbia Icefields.

Nice turns and pics.

bcrider · Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 4:24 pm Post subject:

Wow!

That looks so nice GJ!

I’m lovin’ the flowers, glacier, and skiing pics.
Skiing can be a summer activity. Very Happy

Thanks for sharing!!! Cool

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Brenda · Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 4417 Location: Ice Coast

OK, I'm beginning to get the whole love of Spring/Summer skiing thing. Only our season lasts about a month--or two, if you're dana and jonathan s.

Yet another in a great batch of warm-weather TRs! Thanks for sharing.

tomski · Joined: 12 Dec 2004 Posts: 686 Location: Leadville CO

I thought it was snowdome in Alberta also. However nice pics. I missed not going to PNW for only second time in july in last 7 years.
Definetely looks like less snow than last year but good up on the Dome.
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corn dog · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 1568 Location: your front lawn

Good stuff. If it wasn't for the upcoming Dylan shows I might have headed out that way next week .
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Camilo · Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 35

Damn you, GJ! I was planning on getting out there yesterday, but I got stuck at work. The soonest I can head out there to salvage some corn is in 2 weeks. Nice work!

Tri-Ungulate · Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 11:13 pm Post subject:

Help! I'm drifting in a sea of late-season on-topic TR stokeage! Laughing

(edited to add tripreport search term to thread)
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OldHouseMan · Joined: 30 Mar 2005 Posts: 77 Location: Portland

joesnow · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 534 Location: Meyers, CA