Had an amazing weekend with friends Joe Heitzeberg and Tom Romary. We met on Saturday evening in Rainier park. The campsite at Cougar Rock was full so we drove a few hundred feet down the road, parked at a trailhead, hiked in a bit and slept under the stars. We got up to paradise at about 7am and started hiking up to Muir on skis with skins. We hiked from about 5,500 ft to over 10,000 ft, took a break and had lunch and then skied down on a route we made up as we went along. At one point we had skied into a valley and had to climb a snowbank to get back on the trail (the alternative was skiing down the Nisqually river valley on top of the river and possibly falling through, so we decided against that). Joe has posted photos and video here. (Page 2 has the videos) The videos are a little large to download, so as soon as they’re up on youtube I’ll embed a few here.
Bwaaaahahahahaha! Tele is so 30 seconds ago.
Yeah we got two sets from Marmot mountain works in Bellevue with skins.
I had the regular randonee’s with the cross bar under the boot and they worked great. My friend had the dynafit style bindings which are lighter but they actually kinda sucked because you can’t tell if you’re clipped in properly because they don’t have that lever that pops up on the back and they also kept coming off – I think marmot may have set the DIN setting a little too low.
Hey we might be doing Adams or something similar soon so I’ll email you in case you want to come with.
Are you wearing randonee boots? Isn’t randonee French for “can’t tele?”