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3-1-13 Got an early 5:15am start from neso in light snow. Some evidence of prior travel beneath a good 6-12+ " of recent snow. North brother was pretty tough, taking 2 hours to climb that 0.8 mile often through waist deep drifts that we just couldnt get on top of. Fort was surprisingly easy as...

I was wondering if this was going to make the paper. We shared the bunkroom at Hiker's Paradise the night before and we chatted for a while about hiking/climbing and all 3 seemed quite fit and knowledgeable. They were planning to do Pinnacle Gully. The visibility was garbage that day (I was...

crap I wish I could spell traverse! 2-22-13 Trail conditions: http://www.vftt.org/forums/showthread.php?48161-Madison-thru-Pierce-2-22-13 A perfect day above treeline complete with an undercast, calm winds, blue skies, warm sun, and tons of happy hikers out enjoying the scenery. undercast in...

2-25-13 I had grand plans to do a traverse over to Passaconaway but was hoping Pine Bend would be easy to break out solo but that wasn't the case as it took 4 tough hours of trailbreaking to reach M Tripyramid. There was evidence of travel from before the storm but right from the start I was...

2-24-12 Snowshoes the whole way as expected. Even though a large group broke out the trail yesterday, there was a lot of tough trailbreaking today as a good 5" of heavy wet snow fell last night and during the day. HUGE kudos to those that broke out the trail yesterday. I found the going to...

I don't think so Tim. I ran into many other active posters on VFTT/NETC and someone mentioned you were up ahead. I took Gulfside past Clay (my preferred route for heading up to Washington as I can keep a good fast pace without stopping) and I read from your report you took the Clay loop. I...

I met him right at the summit of Jefferson as he finished the second round, perfect timing! Pretty neat...

2-23-13 Parked at 19 MB and did the road walk/ Camp Dodge Cutoff (which appeared to be better tracked out than the actual trail below the split). I wore snowshoes the whole day and found the Imp Trail/ North Carter Trail to be well broken out but almost certainly its too soft for barebooting...

2-22-13 Big thanks to peakbagger (dennis) for helping me out with a car spot this morning! I started up Valley Way at 7 am wearing snowshoes and quickly passed the couple of groups that had been nicely packing down the fresh powder. One barebooter had been through early morning/late night and...

2/21/13 got a late start even for me (6:30 pm) but as expected had the trails to myself. Used snowshoes start to finish though I carried crampons due to the reports that had been posted recently. There was a nice snowshoe track packed out (likely too soft for spikes)with some drifting in along...

Awesome pics--those are the days I dream of (well maybe minus the wind). Thanks for sharing!

I'm leaning towards doing a traverse on Friday 2-22 and was wondering if any fine VFTTers could help me with a carspot either on the front end or giving me a ride back to Appalachia on the back end of a traverse. Name a 6 pack and it's yours! Pat pcushing21 at yahoo dot com

2-16-13 We started out in microspikes/barebooting up to Lonesome Lake where us two non-skiiers switched to snowshoes and our friend Alan continued skinning up. Fish n Jimmy was in great shape and probably could be barebooted but we were short on time and felt like we could boogie a little...

2-13-13 Parked on the forest service road about 1.25 mile down where there's a berm blocking the road. ~45 min walk to the trailhead. I was pleasantly surprised a single skiier had been up the trail to the LT junction making trailbreaking a little easier. Down low the snow was consolidating a...

2-10-13 We were going to park at the end of W Kingsfield Rd but a resident told us Rapid Stream Rd was plowed to nearly the washed out bridges so we parked in the driveway of the last house on the road. The homeowner was outside and kindly let us park there. We walked the snowmobile trail to...

Thanks RollingRock and others for the kind words! Mexico far exceeded my expectations and was a beautiful countryside. Arm will have to comment on his own goals but for me I'm hoping to get a small team together for Denali in '14 and do some more technical PNW climbs or maybe some South...

2-9-13 Had hoped to do a traverse to Abraham but when we couldn't get my 2WD car out of the driveway at the Roadhouse it was time to temper expectations. We parked at the ski area and ascended the skiiers left-most trails and never had ski patrol swing by to check in with us, perhaps everyone...

2-8-13 Huge thanks to Bryan for the beta on conditions out there. We drove in Morton Cutoff, hit the berm of snow on Tim Pond Road but were able to drive past it in Jason's pickup. Easy going from there up to mile marker 22 on Wiggle Brook but with the heavy snow coming down we figured a...

2-7-13 Crockers and Redington Thanks to Jeremy and others for providing details on the 11th hole shortcut. Started from the golf course and quickly followed old tracks to the road, even bushwhacking one only needed microspikes all day today. As others mentioned the turn for the AT up S Crocker...

2/6/13 I had planned on taking horn pond trail but my mind was elsewhere and the at was well broken out post thaw by snowshoers so i took that up to the ridge, I think this route was a few miles longer than the horn pond trail route? Well packed, easy to follow trail to south horn. North horn...