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 Outward Bound author of the Seinfeld Thread, who builds his own snowshoes
Troy, MT
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Posted - 07/29/2007 : 10:36 PM
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our origional plan was to head up later saterday, doing the majority of the hiking on sunday, but with the weather looking better on saturday and the prospect of not getting a site at the lake if we were to arrive later, last minute changes ment that we started at the crack of dawn saturday morning. hitting the trail at around 10:15, we passed hoards of day hikers on the way up. the only other time I've seen a trail that crowded was on the elk mountain hike a few months ago. reaching the lake right around 1, we quickly set up camp and dumped our overnight gear in the tent. there were still patches of snow in the campsites, but we managed to get one that was mostly snow free. I'd guess that the last of the snow at the campgorund will be gone soon, and there was no snow on the trail on the way up, and very little mud. the lower trail along the lake is still flooded, but with waterproof boots, its easily passable. after eating a quick lunch, we headed up twards black tusk around 1:45. on the way up there was a pair of rangers maintaining the trail just past the outhouse junction. at this point, the weather was great, with just a few clouds in the sky. upon reaching the sign marking the end of the trail, which reccomends not going past that point, we quickly proceeded onwards. ascending the snow, we were soon on the ridge, where, looking forward at the trail that dissapeared into cloud, we figured there must be a better way around the other side. glissading down the snow we headed trards the col between black tusk and the mountain to its west(?). after some debate, we realised that the only way must be where we were before, so we backtracked up to the ridge again, and began climbing up. when we reached the foot of the tusk around 4 30, with heavy cloud cover, it was clear that we shouldn't be heading up a route none of us had been on, on the edge of a crumbling cliff, where we couldn't see very far ahead of us. retracing our footsteps, we headed back down to the snow and slid down to the trail. by 6:30, we were back at camp, and had dinner of pasta alfredo with a can of chicken, as well as the next days lunch of turkey-cheese wraps, since we planned to be somewhere with jucy burgers by lunch anyways. having those shelters up there sure is a nice reprieve from the bugs, and getting to sit down and have a table is never a bad thing. very little rain fell during the night, aparently nothng compared to what was had in PoCo this morning. The we went back through taylor meadows, and found the campground deserted. along the switchbacks, we probably 100 of what looked to be Iranian (or somewhere near there) people heading up, some having a good time, most looking exhausted. the rest of the descent was mostly uneventful, and it took about 2 hours to get down, maybe less, as I forgot my watch in my pack, and didn't look at hte time untill after lunch in squamish. I'll let the pictures tell the rest.   
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Vancouver, BC
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Posted - 07/30/2007 : 1:51 PM
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The lake is still flooding I see. Sounds like you had a good adventure up to the base of the Tusk, and into the clouds. I'm looking forward to the rest of your pics.
The large group that you encountered on the way down were Iranian, and one of their leaders was our own Alex. He told me that it was not unusual to see parties comprised of two hundred hikers in Iran, so the group you saw was mid-sized by their standards  .
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Somewhere where I don't know where I am, B.C.
Canada
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Posted - 07/30/2007 : 2:09 PM
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Nice TR Farmer. Was the edge of the lake around bigger Garibaldi still flooded over in parts or did you make it okay? Sounds like a good trip and I will definitely have to make it to the tusk next time. Catch you on the trails. |
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Outward Bound author of the Seinfeld Thread, who builds his own snowshoes
Troy, MT
USA
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Posted - 07/30/2007 : 2:16 PM
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the edge of the lake was still flooded, but for fun I tried the trail and was able to make it. some bits I was walking through a couple inches of water, and in other spots there was a bit of easy scrambling, but it was still easier than the detour they have that goes up and over.
             
if you look in the middle of this next shot, you can see 2 slide marks from people, that start about 15-20 ft below the top of the cornice. there were no footprints above them, one hits some rocks on the way down, and there are footprints leading away from the bottum. it reminded me of team scotlands daring leap on the mt seymore hike last summer, 'cept this one was a lot longer and steeper
found this little guy half sticking out of the snow, probably got burried months ago
   
the trail went into these clouds. we weren't going to try follow it, so we turned back 
  
can anyone explain why this happens? 
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Popkum, BC
Canada
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Posted - 07/30/2007 : 10:02 PM
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I've seen that black death devouring trees before but I don't know what it's called Bryan. I enjoyed your report and pictures.
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Happy go lucky, plaid wearin, postholin, safeway gaitor sportin, old-school film shootin, giver of many regards
Abbotsford, B.C.
Canada
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Posted - 07/30/2007 : 10:25 PM
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Enjoyed your TR, .. interesting photo of that dragonfly. Nice shots of the lake.
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Richmond, BC
Canada
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Posted - 07/31/2007 : 11:09 AM
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quote:
can anyone explain why this happens?
Which picture? The plant or the extrusion? I'm curious about the plant too.
Nice trip Farmer |
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Outward Bound author of the Seinfeld Thread, who builds his own snowshoes
Troy, MT
USA
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Posted - 07/31/2007 : 1:34 PM
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Posted - 07/31/2007 : 10:15 PM
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| Sweet TR...i'll be tracing similar steps to those on thursday, and i hope my little adventure's as good as your's sounded! I'm pretty stoked that i'm also gonna miss the weekend masses...it's rare that i get to do a hike during the week. |
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N.Vancouver, BC
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Posted - 08/01/2007 : 10:12 PM
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Originally posted by Angus
The large group that you encountered on the way down were Iranian, and one of their leaders was our own Alex. He told me that it was not unusual to see parties comprised of two hundred hikers in Iran, so the group you saw was mid-sized by their standards .
- Tom
Good TR & nice photos Farmer.
1 pic from hikers in Iran.
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Garibaldi lake - Black tusk July 28-29
