Skiing Mount Shasta, June 2023
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Daniel and Pete skiing the West Face Gully of Mount Shasta in California.
Ultra-epic!
On the way up, we weren't too fond of crossing dry ground because we could see that Avalanche Gulch was snow from top to bottom. For a while we considered descending Avalanche Gulch instead of going back down the West Face Gully, but boy-howdy, I'm so glad we didn't.
The West Face Gully turned out to be one of the best descents of my entire life!
Sweetness! Cool adventure, skiing, and beautiful scenery!
Sick dude!!!
Insane! Looks amazing!!
I love your videos. Keep it up.
Is this a challenging ski run on the descent?
When we descended, the conditions were really pretty ideal. If the conditions had been icier, it would have been pretty dangerous (whippet strongly recommended).
Wow! that's gorgeous. How many vertical feet down would you say you were able to ski?
This is me on my other account and it was about 3300 ft of continuous descent, plus a bunch more traversing back to the trailhead but that was frequently interrupted by dirt and was more traverse than descent at times.
@@EnderWaterBender Nice! 3300 tops most ski resorts. Sounds totally worth the hike up.
I don't know if it's all the snow that ski resorts manufacture throughout the winter, but seeing pics of friends skiing the last weekend at Squaw/Alpine, the amount of remaining snow coverage at around 1/2 the elevation was pretty surprising compared with upper Shasta. Maybe the sun exposure and 24/7 winds really diminsh/thins the snowpack up there?