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.
At the elevation of the glacier the rain slowly changed to wet snow. But we headed on, feeling wet and cold.
At the glacier we could finally put our skies on and break trail in this fantastic fresh snow.
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.
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.
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.