First turns of the season

On September 7th, Labor day, our new room mate Stefan and me decided to head out for some turns on Mt. Baker. The Forest Park road has been closed since it got washed out early in spring but got temporarily opened that long weekend.
In pouring rain we started hiking up the trail.

Stefan in good mood

Stefan in good mood


Still rainy

Still rainy


Getting there...

Getting there...


At the elevation of the glacier the rain slowly changed to wet snow. But we headed on, feeling wet and cold.
First contact

First contact


Hiking up in some fresh snow

Hiking up in some fresh snow


Still hiking

Still hiking


At the glacier we could finally put our skies on and break trail in this fantastic fresh snow.
While skiining up

While skiining up


After a couple of meter we decided to turn around. The crevasses on the glacier were more severe than in the years before and with due to the white out navigation was almost impossible. And who wants to get lost on Panorama ridge? So we took off our climbing skins and skied down. It wasn’t much skiing and the snow was very wet. But about 25 cm of fresh snow.
First turns

First turns


At the bottom of the glacier we put the skies back on out backpack and hiked back towards the car. It stopped raining and the weather cleared up a little.
On the way down

On the way down


The new guy and me

The new guy and me


All in all it was good to get out of the city and there was quite some snow fall during the last couple of days. It was a decent opening of the skiing season 2009/2010 and there is hope for some more skiing pretty soon.

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