The front end of a big storm hit Seattle Saturday and Sunday, with 4000 foot snow levels and plenty of moisture. Prior to the storm the mountains only had 5-10" of snow - this storm bumped it up to 20+ inches at most places, a few more at Mt. Rainier, our destination for Sunday. We left the paradise parking log and skied down the Stevens Creek road, then up over the ridge to get a 1000' run just above the creek.
You can see it was still a little bony, but it snowed hard all day and delivered some fine powder turns. It was typical early season snow, a little heavy, but glorious all the same! We had a great day even considering I had no water (all leaked out of a faulty bladder), and had to rely on mouthfuls of snow (not effective) and the generosity of Kendall, Aaron and John.
John starting out on the climb.
You can see it was still a little bony, but it snowed hard all day and delivered some fine powder turns. It was typical early season snow, a little heavy, but glorious all the same! We had a great day even considering I had no water (all leaked out of a faulty bladder), and had to rely on mouthfuls of snow (not effective) and the generosity of Kendall, Aaron and John.
