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Anyone been up to Shasta recently? How's the snow looking on Casaval Ridge?

What ever it is today ( corn, crust, and crud) it's not going to be that way Tuesday.

ARosenthal wrote:Anyone been up to Shasta recently? How's the snow looking on Casaval Ridge?

Buddy did Casaval last weekend and encountered ice up to 60 degrees and nothin' but. He epic'ed pretty bad.

And just to point out the obvious; feet of new snow on ice= very high avi danger. Be careful out there.

MoabPeakBagger wrote:

ARosenthal wrote:Anyone been up to Shasta recently? How's the snow looking on Casaval Ridge?

Buddy did Casaval last weekend and encountered ice up to 60 degrees and nothin' but. He epic'ed pretty bad.

Isn't it funny how a 40-45 degree slope gets reported as 60 degrees when it's icy?

bobpickering wrote:

MoabPeakBagger wrote:

ARosenthal wrote:Anyone been up to Shasta recently? How's the snow looking on Casaval Ridge?

Buddy did Casaval last weekend and encountered ice up to 60 degrees and nothin' but. He epic'ed pretty bad.

Isn't it funny how a 40-45 degree slope gets reported as 60 degrees when it's icy?

Hahaha, good point. There's probably some formula one could derive for number of degrees added to slope angle as a function of number of hours shivering and suffering.

Two more weeks 'til West Face Gulley! So nervous ... please stop snowing, Shasta.

Is the mob still planning on doing Avi Gulch this weekend or are people backing off with all the new snow and heightened avalanche danger?

sdtrackrunner wrote:Is the mob still planning on doing Avi Gulch this weekend or are people backing off with all the new snow and heightened avalanche danger?

I'm hoping the conditions take a positive turn this weekend; let that mess settle so I'm not suffering going up on the 4th.

Any conditions reports from Mem Day climbers? I'm putting off my trip til mid-June due to too much snow.....can't ski powder very well. :/

I think the last 8 of 9 holiday weekends were winter weather and storms. There was a wicked north wind on Sunday that sent everyone scurrying. Well below average temps, new snow,wind, whiteout, etc. At least the skiing is fantastic!

Looks fun, eh!

http://www.youtube.com/user/shastaguides#p/a/u/0/7JSQC_rGK1I

More snow yesterday (5.29) and this week. At this rate, the climbing conditions will be excellent all summer long, and we'll probably be skiing all year! Now if the sun would just come out so we can really enjoy this epic snowpack!

SMG wrote:More snow yesterday (5.29) and this week. At this rate, the climbing conditions will be excellent all summer long, and we'll probably be skiing all year! Now if the sun would just come out so we can really enjoy this epic snowpack!

In your experience and given the current snow pack, if things heat up over the weekend as they are forecasted to do and stay that way consistently, how long do you think it would take before we could get up to Gumboot?

Deb: I wouldn't expect much powder on the upper mountain. The guides coming down from Helen on Sunday spoke of firm wind-buff, ice, sastrugi, etc. The winds were 100+ mph so I didn't make a summit attempt. Still, the skiing below 50/50 was awesome.

sdtrackrunner wrote:Deb: I wouldn't expect much powder on the upper mountain. The guides coming down from Helen on Sunday spoke of firm wind-buff, ice, sastrugi, etc. The winds were 100+ mph so I didn't make a summit attempt. Still, the skiing below 50/50 was awesome.

Yeah, that's what I heard/read. Glad I didn't make the 7hr. trip for that, though I'm sure the skiing was good.

Oh it looks like the snow might let up this week. YES! Plans for 18 June climb of West Face and ski down same. .....fingers crossed......