Friday, December 19, 2008

Climbing and Skiing Mount Hood's Variation of The Old Chute


Looking south towards Jefferson.
Almost looks like an ice vertebrae 
Got to love rime, made for a difficult skin.
Steep + Icy & Powdery + Poor visibility = FUN!
We stashed the skis at the yoke of the chute.  The chute was filled with huge ice mounds, which would pose to be pointless to ski.  It would have been more of a side stepping process down the whole chute.  We will ski it later in the season once snow fills it in.


Tis the top.  Didn't take any pictures on the ski down.  The visiblity was so poor and the strong wind easily convinced us to keep our gloves on and sites set and getting down since we could see a damn thing.