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Jim Herrington

Mountain climber

New York, NY

Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 11, 2009 - 02:33pm PT

It's getting to be that time...

Let's see your backcountry ski photos.

I'll start.
I took this near Alta Peak, west side of the Sierra just before the Tablelands, at the beginning of the Sierra High Route (the ski route, duh).
This was around 11pm, full moon...

Mungeclimber

Trad climber

sorry, just posting out loud.

Sep 11, 2009 - 03:12pm PT

kewl photo

curt wohlgemuth

Social climber

Bay Area, California

Sep 11, 2009 - 03:28pm PT

But whydja set your tent on fire?

splitclimber

climber

Sonoma County

Sep 11, 2009 - 03:40pm PT

now I can contibute to this thread on a lazy friday - except it's not skiing

Rock Creek, Bridgeport, Mammoth

Ghost

climber

A long way from where I started

Sep 11, 2009 - 04:11pm PT

Lunch break...

Walleye

climber

In the Aviary studying trees

Sep 11, 2009 - 05:14pm PT

Yosemite High Route.. Greg Magruder and The South face of Merced Peak

WJF

Tim Messick approaching Post Peak Pass on the Yosemite High Route

WJF

johntp

Trad climber

socal

Sep 11, 2009 - 06:02pm PT

bump for the purdy pictures

mason805

Trad climber

East Bay, CA

Sep 11, 2009 - 06:04pm PT

Cool. I've never been out back country snow boarding but that looks awesome.

Where are those pics, not the Yosemite ones. They look familiar.

Edit: Nevermind. Rock Creek, Mammoth. Duh.

Is this it?

http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=rock+creek+mammoth,+ca&sll=41.763117,-119.597168&sspn=4.064426,9.876709&ie=UTF8&ll=37.561997,-118.185425&spn=2.15973,4.938354&z=8&iwloc=A

Jim Herrington

Mountain climber

New York, NY

Topic Author's Reply - Sep 11, 2009 - 10:55pm PT

Dave King, near Banner Peak, Sierra Nevada.

ThomasKeefer

Trad climber

Between Tuscano and Liguria, Italia

Sep 12, 2009 - 07:29am PT

En route to Col du Chardonet:

Mer de Glace

Got French Alps?

Nearing Trient Hut in less than optimal weather

Vallonde del Inferno

Climbing to the Valsorey Hut

Walking in somewhere in Switzerland

Valle Blanche (Chamonix)

Eric McAuliffe

Trad climber

Alpine County, CA

Sep 12, 2009 - 08:42am PT

summit ridge Hiram Pk. Carson Iceberg Wilderness.

Not quite Backcountry, but i took this last season at the XC while on an evening grooming session, look at that smoovvve trail.....

Jim Herrington

Mountain climber

New York, NY

Topic Author's Reply - Sep 12, 2009 - 08:53am PT

Doug Robinson near Banner Peak, Sierra Nevada.

BCD

Trad climber

Mammoth Lakes, CA

Sep 12, 2009 - 11:17am PT

Some of my favorites from last year, though it's mostly just a bunch of those damn snowboarders....

first turn of the season:

Mt Walt

Incredible Hulk Left:

Little Slide Canyon

Below Mt Muir:

White Fang:

Emerson:

Picture Peak:

Deerhorn:

Karen

Trad climber

So Cal urban sprawl Hell

Sep 12, 2009 - 11:41am PT

Cool pictures and awesome scenery !!!

Backcountry skiing is amazing, wish I had taken more pics, this year perhaps!

Mikemcee

Trad climber

Mill Valley, CA

Sep 12, 2009 - 12:14pm PT

A few from a chilly late winter ascent of Casaval Ridge and then a couple more from the summer solstice corn harvest on the Hotlum Wintun. So much fun.

Alpenglow approach

Just before things started getting a little airy

Corn harvest

All smiles

And a bonus Donner pic

BCD, you set the bar so high. Awesome.

MisterT

Trad climber

little blue truck

Sep 12, 2009 - 12:48pm PT

I learned how this year for this trip...

heading up into a whiteout

lovely conditions

working for it

point success

heading down the Emmons Glacier and really wishing I was a better skier.

only 3000 or so more feet to descend.

It was well worth it. I suffered in so many ways.

Trad climber

Santa Cruz

Sep 12, 2009 - 01:11pm PT

Deerhorn?? Seriously, you guys were a long way back in there! But then, we got there last spring too:

We stopped at Shorty's place for a drink on our way home

And this was almost 40 years ago at Muir Pass

Steve Grossman

Trad climber

Seattle, WA

Sep 14, 2009 - 08:23am PT

Very Nice! Been thinking about cutting turns and voila...the shizzle! The leaves are turning in these parts...snow just around the corner.

khanom

climber

good question

Sep 14, 2009 - 09:01am PT

This just looks too good to miss out on. I LOVE these pics!

Been meaning to get back on skis a couple of winters now... I really ought to go for it this time 'round.

More photos please?

Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer

Trad climber

Bay Area

Sep 14, 2009 - 10:17am PT

Some of my favorites from last season:

Craig skinning the ridgeline on Skiers Alta, near the Pear Lake Hut after an aborted High Route attempt due to avi conditions: