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Williams Peak Yurt Trip: Shred Williams Peak Yurt Trip: Shredding The Sawtooths In Style
- From: johnkaiser
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Skinning in to the Williams Peak Yurt in Idaho's Sawtooth Range. In early April, I skinned and snowboarded some classic lines in Idaho’s Sawtooth Range with 10 shred friends. We scored a last minute cancelation reservation at the Williams Peak Yurt, operated by Sawtooth Mountain Guides, planned a menu and pulled together a crew of riders including Wyatt Caldwell, Spencer Cordovano, Taylor Carlton, Cory Smith, Pat Lee and Jeremy Black.
The three-hour approach went smoothly with blue skies, sunshine and easy skinning. Everyone took shifts pulling the 60-pound food sled up the 6 miles to the Yurt at 8,000 feet. We spared no expense in our prep for the three-day trip fresh fruit and veggies, steaks, chicken and of course enough liquor to drown out the loudest late night lumberjacks.
The Williams Peak Yurt set up.
Our porter, George, arrived with the other 40 pounds of food, joined us for a couple Bloody Marys and told us about recent weather patterns. One week earlier they had gotten rain up to 9,500 feet, but since then, it had stayed cold and had snowed about a foot. George headed back out to civilization and we headed uphill for a quick tour in the Marshall Basin. After digging a pit and getting some solid warm up turns, we headed to the yurt for an early dinner and a late night sauna.
On day two, we got an early start as far as snowboarders are concerned, and were skinning by 8 a.m. Our group naturally split into two squads, the fast moving and short tempered “Team X”(X-treme) and the mellower, frequent break taking “Team Y”(Yurt-team).
An hour of skinning put us in Profile Basin where we found a single skier about a quarter of a mile ahead of us. There was some frustration in the group that we had blown an opportunity, were missing freshies and were getting scooped by a solo skier. Where the hell did this guy come from anyway?
We watched the skier begin the boot pack up the cooler coulior called “Redemption,” so we decided to go after the two other main chutes, “Jesus Christ” and “Whats Up Dock.”
After a quick plan about camera placements we split up and started toward our respective targets. Three groups climbing the couliors, three cameras off to separate angles, plus one camera on Taylor Carlton, who was jibbing a boulder the size of a house down by the lake.
The three couloirs from left to right: Redemption, Jesus Christ, and What's Up Dock?
Rock to fakie … no pun intended.
By the time I was in filming position at the other side of the frozen lake, the unknown skier had already blazed to the top of Redemption and schralped back down to the lake in tight and symmetrical turns, farming the vert for as many mini-slashes as possible. Our group at the bottom struck a conversation, “Nice turns, how was it up top?” A woman’s voice responded, “Thanks, it was nice. Good snow.”
Holy shit, Han Solo skier was a woman! It turned out that she had skinned in from the road (6 miles) and was going for several couloirs that day. …The Redemption couloir was her warm-up and she was up and down it before we could even get a tri-pod out. This woman was crushing it.
Our three groups of riders got up and down their respective couloirs with smiles and high-fives at the bottom. Spencer Cordovano was clearly the most puckered in the group, “That was as close to God as I ever want to be,” he said. It was a big day capped off with banquet beers and another sauna session.
On day three we woke up to some howling winds and a few inches of fresh snow. We stayed low and safe, skinning back over to the Marshall Basin to take a look up at KB’s couloir. It was “a little breezy” at the top, so we decided to post up for a couple hours in hopes that the skies would clear.
Shredding What's Up Doc? 
It's a steep one!We found semicircle of small trees, used our snowboards and MTNApproach skis to form a wind break and built a small campfire. A little lunch and two hours of hopeful stalling by the fire and we had to pull the plug. Visibility was terrible and not showing signs of improvement, so we took one-lap down to the lake and then skinned back up to the yurt for grilled cheese and naptime.
Getting warm.
The Scrabble board came out after a badass steak dinner and we finished the day off with another sauna session.
Scrabble.On day four we cleaned up and went home. With one solid day of pow-filled couloirs in the sunshine, we all felt that the trip was a huge success. Wyatt Caldwell summed it up, “Man, all I need to be happy is a little slice of dirt and a sweet lil’ Yurt.”
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- 1 year ago
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Scrabble in the yurt Scrabble in the yurt
- From: johnkaiser
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Description:Scrabble in the yurt
- 1 year ago
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The Propagation of a Snowy Cul The Propagation of a Snowy Culture
- From: surface40514
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Facbook is the television of the 21st Century. It captivates our time, dominates our data plans, and instantaneously updates billions of times from various locations and devices throughout the world. Parts of it are miserable. After all, no one cares about status updates regarding how good your horse looks in a christmas sweater, what you had for lunch, your score on scrabble, or that you love micro-blogging the details of your activities every 15 minutes.
Aside from the misery, the part of facebook that is truly valuable and enthralling is the photo uploader. Every journey, every comical event, every new adventure, relationships, incredible scenery, friends, breathtaking locations, memorable parties... are saved, categorized, and embedded in our profiles. Rather than flip through physical photo albums, everyone can see photographic summations of our lives based on the thousands of images that adorn our profiles.
For Surface, these photos tell stories of our lives and the culture we've created through sliding on snow. They are the summation of thousands hours of effort, bitter cold days, pure adventure, countless sleepless nights, absurd planning, day dreaming, payroll checks, photoshop hours, web design, business meetings, injuries, pain, suffering, and the pure joy we extract from skiing. Photos are inspiration. They create windows into other realms and allow us to briefly time travel and re-live the past. Photos prepare us for the season, paving the way for what is to come based on events that have already happened, taunting our anticipation until the first snowfall. Without photos, our culture would not exist and without Facebook, we would not have instant access to an unlimited photographic database of our past.
To all our facebook friends out there, thank you for the stoke! Your stories, as told through hundreds of thousands of photographs, inspire us to keep doing what we do!
To all our non-facebook friends. What are you waiting for? It's 2010! Log in, friend "Surface Skis" and hopefully our photos will inspire the best in your daily actions! - Blog post
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Why We Drop Cornices Why We Drop Cornices
- From: JeremyJones
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Description:Why we drop Cornices...
The last five days have put my down day skills to the test. Reading, painting, photo clinics, scrabble, chess, cross country skiing, Yoga, poker, Frisbee golf on ski’s, hot tubbing, Swiss ball tricks, and looking at clouds pretending to know what they are doing.
The good news is the mountains have received significant amounts of new snow. The bad news is our stable avalanche conditions are long gone. Do to our constant cloud studying we were on it when the clouds lifted yesterday afternoon and gave us a view of the mountains and an opportunity to get back out there.
Going into the backcountry, especially after a big storm event, can be dangerous. One tool I use on a daily basis is TGR’s Five Red Flags.
New snow with in the last 24 hours
Sign of natural avalanche activity
Whoomping or settling of the snow pack
Rapid heating
Strong winds
So before even going into the mountains we had one Red Flag, new snow with in 24 hours. With in 20 minutes we had determined two more Red Flags, natural avalanche activity, and rapid heating. This is not all that uncommon, especially after a new storm so we continued on our normal protocol.
We picked a run that had a ridge lined with multiple small cornices with easy gaps that would allow us to isolate, cut and drop cornices onto the slope acting as a bomb. We started small and worked our way down the ridge dropping bigger cornices onto the main part of the slope. On the third one we released a small cornice that landed into the middle of the slope and triggered the whole slope to release. We all watched in awe as a class 2/3 avalanche roared into the valley. Unfortunately the exit of our line had a big slope above it that did not release. After multiple cornice bombs we could not get the hanging slope to release.
There is nothing I wanted more then to make a powder turn after five days in the lodge but without getting the hanging slope to release it was not going to happen. We ended up riding down the backside of the slope on windblown scower and with clouds building we called it a day.
The above account is a very common situation we deal with daily in the mountains. We say 'no' a lot more than we say 'yes' when it comes to riding the terrain you see in the movies. Note: Do not try dropping cornices with out proper training and always make sure there is no one on the slope below.
Check CONWAY'S CORNER for more info.
** This is why we drop cornices.**
** Sage swimming in 3 feet of new snow.**
** Sage releasing a cornice with ski pole tap**
** Down day poker tournament**
** Weather check on the cross country skis**
** L to R: Seth, Todd, CG, Jeremy, Sage AClark**
** Every evening just before sunset the sun** - Blog post
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