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Rogers
Pass - Forever Young - Feb 13 2009
words
and photos by Sharon Bader and Lee Lau unless otherwise noted.
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Rogers
Run Feb 6th || Swiss
Peaks-Hermit Feb 7th || Cheops
- STS Couloir Feb 8th ||
Glacier Crest Feb 9th || Avalanche
Glacier Feb 10th || Grizzly
Feb 12th ||Youngs
Peak Traverse Feb 13th || Cheops
South Feb 14th
Friday came in with high overcast
and potential...
We headed out with the intention
of doing Forever Young, but open to options based on vis. A glacier is no place
to be in a white out!
After skiing for 8 days, lee's dogging
it. He wants to ski this couloir but his legs aren't as peppy as they usually
are!
We head up the moraine:
Essentially up the middle of this pic and to lookers left of Lookout Peak in
the center.
Interesting route finding
up the Great Glacier Moraine!
Once at the
decision point - do we head over Lookout Col for a shorter day? Or go
for Forever Young! Lee, catches up to us. He's tired, but determined.
He will buck up, break trail and get to Forever Young.
We don't need no stinkin
ropes!
Lee treks on
Glaciers - cool.
Lookout and Glacier Crest
are in the background. For a view of where we are from the top of Glacier
Crest click HERE
We are so small.
Highway 1 is ever the reference
in these mountains.
Daniel heading
up the glacier.
The sun wants to come up!
mmmm pecan squares
give my legs energy!
Heading across the glacier
towards Youngs Peak and Forever Young.
trail trail trail!
Forever Young is before us. On
the way up we were being chased by a couple of Swedes and a Norwegian! They
better not beat us!
We're close!
Still heading across the glacier!
It's HUGE!
Hmmm, does this go?
nope...
View back to above area from
Triangle Moraine
Pick the right
line!
There it is! The Swedes didn't
beat us but three others who were staying in the Asulkan did! Can you
see them?
Almost there!
Dan goes for the perspective shot!
Ok Lee, you go skiers
left and cut HARD right ok?
Steep as it looks!
You want me to
what?
Conditions were not variable in
this col. They were consistently hard.
Edge, Edge, Toes in?
Toes in?
Do I really have to go?
Only one place
to go when you're at the top!
Yup, Nice consistent slope...
Not pretty.
Forever Young.
if you live
Sharon getting out.
Sharon
Daniel Woodsworth
Jon rescues Dag Finn's NTN
mounted ski!
New technology
PERFECT tool for steep couloirs!
A representative of all the AT
options! With the bindings on the skis!
Novel concept!
The Norwegian must tele.
Dropping one knee
for 5km will not be painful!
Slopeside binding fixing! Nice
that Telemark is still simple!
Jon, Mike and Dog
Finn
