PacNW avy pics

[boardman]

Planning to head out to Mt. Hood in a couple months, so I started poking around on websites and found the Northwest Avalanche Center website. Stumbled on these cool avy pics from last season (the bottom one on the page is particularly cool):

http://www.nwac.us/photos/2006_2007/

[cms829]

nice find. when are you gonna be out there? I'll be out the 3rd week in june. Will be going up rainier again, then adams, and most likely hood or st helens dependant on time.

[footlong]

How freaky would it have been for someone to carve that trigger block (top two pics) into a human like shape...frosty the snowman...?

[Bannick]

Snow rollers are sooooo coooool!

[scottie4183]

you're going to mt hood?? I hate you

[cbcbd]

Wow, some very cool shots... never seen a snowroller before - very cool.

Watch out on Hood, reporters tend to hang out on the Hogsback nowadays...

cms, which way you heading up Rainier?

[RR]

We had doughnuts rolling down when we were skinning in to the hut last year. No joke, snow doughnuts!

[boardman]

nice find. when are you gonna be out there? I'll be out the 3rd week in june. Will be going up rainier again, then adams, and most likely hood or st helens dependant on time.

Hood dates are June 11-15, but I'm still weighing the option of sticking around and doing Ptarmigan Ridge on Rainier (June 15-18) with some buddies who are doing it. Just gotta work out the travel logistics and see if I can take the time off (oh, and see if I can slide it by the wife . . .)

[cms829]

im flying out on the 12th into seatac....going for fuhrer finger with a possible snowboard or ski descent...then onto adams probably up the mazama headwall....if we do hood im looking at the steel cliff gully's. obviously all condition dependant.

[Seeker]

Wow, some very cool shots... never seen a snowroller before - very cool.

Watch out on Hood, reporters tend to hang out on the Hogsback nowadays...

cms, which way you heading up Rainier?

They are funny! Here's one from northern vermont from two years ago:

http://inlinethumb40.webshots.com/42983/2509448380087326566S600x600Q85.jpg (http://sports.webshots.com/photo/2509448380087326566rWRxkT)

[boardman]

im flying out on the 12th into seatac....going for fuhrer finger with a possible snowboard or ski descent...then onto adams probably up the mazama headwall....if we do hood im looking at the steel cliff gully's. obviously all condition dependant.

Fuhrer Finger is a fun route, though it's a carryover route for a reason -- it's a bowling alley by mid-day. Assess carefully.

[cms829]

yup...thats the only issue.

[cbcbd]

im flying out on the 12th into seatac....going for fuhrer finger with a possible snowboard or ski descent...then onto adams probably up the mazama headwall....if we do hood im looking at the steel cliff gully's. obviously all condition dependant.
Check on Adams... The Bird Creek Meadows trailhead for access to the Mazama route is on native american reservation land and, if it is like last year, opens up only on July 1st (it might be different this year depending on snowpack, not sure). The Cold Springs trailhead for the South route is park land, so its open and we were tempted to go into there and traverse over to BC Meadows and up the Mazama... we decided not to do that and I'm glad. We held off for couple days for better weather on Adams and to wait for the th opening, did Hood on the extra day and went back to Adams up the Mazama, staying at Sunrise camp .
If you do make it to Sunrise, check on trying out a route on the Klickitat - lots of cool looking stuff there.