mouse from merced
Trad climber
merced, california
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Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 29, 2012 - 01:10pm PT
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I know a lot of you only "get OTC" in winter.
I used to "hate" the season, but it's mild here in the Central Valley. Good old tule fog and endless overcast.
I have accepted it, but there is one thing I miss about winter, and that is XC skiing. My skiing is best described as something else, compared to many, and I totally lost interest in the sport when the "skaters" showed up with their flashing speed.
I did enjoy several trips into the Sierra Nevada on skinny skis, never had the oppo to get out and do back country skiing. I would have enjoyed it. Here are some of Jim Shirley's pix from back in the 70s.
It isn't just about ski touring, though. It's about winter. And snow isn't around all winter, so just to keep it honest, let's just say snow. There are enough pix around of JT and Tahquitz free of snow.
And snow isn't just confined to the winter months, remember. So, use these as guides when posting, if you get my "drift."
Sorry, you'll have to supply the names of these peaks on your own...
MFM
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Tami
Social climber
Canada
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Aug 29, 2012 - 04:40pm PT
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Lovely pix o' small fur-bearing animal of the peromyscus maniculatis variety
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Aug 29, 2012 - 04:52pm PT
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Mungo like snow...
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Aug 29, 2012 - 04:53pm PT
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Snow, water in a frozen form....now what was it that W.C. Fields said about water?
Nice pics! Yeah, skaters kinda queered it for everyone, didn't they?
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Aug 29, 2012 - 05:53pm PT
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Brandon, I hope it stawms for you more this year than last.
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Kalimon
Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
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Aug 29, 2012 - 06:25pm PT
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Tami
Social climber
Canada
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Aug 29, 2012 - 07:03pm PT
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Bowser
Social climber
Durango CO
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Aug 29, 2012 - 07:16pm PT
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Last week at Yankee Boy Basin shortly after summiting Mt. Sneffels. It may only be hail, but it is a sign. The Aspens are already turning too.
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TwistedCrank
climber
Dingleberry Gulch, Ideeho
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Aug 29, 2012 - 07:33pm PT
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Holy cow, how I miss snow. Now with this living in the desert and global warming and synthetic fabrics... It's a sad time in the universe.
Sometimes the snow getsta be a few years old and don't go nowhere.
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Aug 29, 2012 - 07:40pm PT
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One of my favorite memories is skinning around rock creek canyon under a full moon.
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Aug 29, 2012 - 08:47pm PT
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Aug 29, 2012 - 09:45pm PT
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Aug 29, 2012 - 09:46pm PT
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Donini...So many skaters and too many haters....!
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WyoRockMan
Trad climber
Flank of the Bighorns
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Aug 29, 2012 - 09:53pm PT
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103 today makes this a great topic!
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Aug 29, 2012 - 09:57pm PT
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JohnTp...Rock creek..? One New years eve , with headlamps and some friends we skied up the fisherman trail to the winter lodge....At each foot bridge we would stop and eulogize a lost love one which we then followed with a shot of Polish vodka...Skiing thru the forest with close friends and memories of lost loved ones was a great way to spend new years eve.....
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skamoto
Mountain climber
coalinga ca
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Aug 29, 2012 - 10:08pm PT
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Any one ever read the book about Orlando Bartholomew? First Guy to do JMT in winter. I believe in 1929? Could have the year wrong but I'm sure somebody will let me know if I do. Anyways its an awesome book totally recommended it.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Aug 29, 2012 - 10:10pm PT
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One New years eve , with headlamps and some friends we skied up...
Man, does that bring back memories. New Year's eve, skis, winding up with some people we'd never met, but who became friends, in a storm in a hut high in the Canadian Rockies...
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