Ring Mountain Summit
Two vehicles from Squamish Valley side approaching Ring-Callaghan traverse: Piotr, Anne, Adrien, Len and I, second vehicle, Jordan, Bram, Champagne and Julian, drove up to Upper Squamish Valley 50+km of logging road and stopped by Sliding Alder over grown on the access road. No luck seeking a clearance we parked at just below 1000m elevation and boot packed at 11am. We managed to find continuous snow about kilometer and half in over grown logging road. Len showed us bushwack efficiency with his multipurpose ski goggles and A-frame ski carry method, topped off with some momentum.
The morning clouds cleared and the day has been roasting. minimum sleep and Moonshine hangover had made the Friday night party go-ers a slog up the hill in the sun. We huff and puffed up Ring Mountain true summit at 5:30pm. The panorama view atop was gorgeous and skiing down was pretty fun on the corn snow. A couple of wet sluff avalanche size 0.5 - 1 has been observed.
After we picked up our packs, traversed over to the East side of the Ring and gained access to Callaghan Glacier via a col West of Callaghan false summit, Arrived at camp north of the false summit at 9pm, only finding the opposing party has yet to come.
Some of us went for the false summit to see the sunset. while others use the last sun to setup camp and cook dinner. The other party arrived just after 10pm. A big chilly for June weather, mild wind chill probably around -5C and most of us only brought shoulder season insulated jacket. I partially wrapped my sleeping bag to stay warm and cooked in the snow kitchen.
We went to bed at 11pm in the Tarn 3 and It was pretty warm 8 hrs of sleep.
Overcast in the morning, took us 1 hr to get ready to bag Callaghan, pretty casual start. It was pretty icy on the short approach, I struggled to get my climbing skins to grip on side hill traverse. We took off the skis to bag Callaghan, back to camp to pack up around noon to head out towards Callaghan Lake, while Jordan, Bram, Champagne and Julian went back to Ring direction. Len had serious skin glue problem, large chunk of glue sticking to the ski base. After some white gas and scrapper treatment, it was good for until use the skin. so he just use the glue as kick wax.
Sunday was overcast. We attempted to get out by traverse a ridge system on West of the upper Callaghan Lake but a brief white out has abandoned our ambitious plan. So we generally followed the opposing party's up-track, but the visibility improved short after. See the markup Google Earth
Plenty of thigh-burning tele turns were had in our group (4 tele 1 snowshoer). I could do 10 of those with my semi heavy pack before I had to put on this grim expression to pull off another two, then a really long one (couldn't get back up from low stance because exhausted thigh muscles), then a huge paramark turn followed by straight lining. We had lots fun making turns on the corn snow. It was one of the greatest Spring skiing I have had. Skied down to Callaghan Lake and traversed west bank to the south end.
By then we were all pretty tired and finding ourselves on the wrong side of the creek that drains the lake with the logging road visible across from us. My foot were burning inside the boots anyways so we waded across the creek, mostly ankle deep but got to past my knee at the end. Cold water creeped into the liner, it was rather a exhilarating to the feet. Then the fun part - XC the rest of 7km in oozy boots.
We made it to the get away car at 6pm. Enjoyed the pre-placed clean cloth and sandals. Piotr and Anne had a bath in the creek. We drove off for Shady Tree for well deserved feast and car swap.
Great times.
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The morning clouds cleared and the day has been roasting. minimum sleep and Moonshine hangover had made the Friday night party go-ers a slog up the hill in the sun. We huff and puffed up Ring Mountain true summit at 5:30pm. The panorama view atop was gorgeous and skiing down was pretty fun on the corn snow. A couple of wet sluff avalanche size 0.5 - 1 has been observed.
After we picked up our packs, traversed over to the East side of the Ring and gained access to Callaghan Glacier via a col West of Callaghan false summit, Arrived at camp north of the false summit at 9pm, only finding the opposing party has yet to come.
Some of us went for the false summit to see the sunset. while others use the last sun to setup camp and cook dinner. The other party arrived just after 10pm. A big chilly for June weather, mild wind chill probably around -5C and most of us only brought shoulder season insulated jacket. I partially wrapped my sleeping bag to stay warm and cooked in the snow kitchen.
We went to bed at 11pm in the Tarn 3 and It was pretty warm 8 hrs of sleep.
Overcast in the morning, took us 1 hr to get ready to bag Callaghan, pretty casual start. It was pretty icy on the short approach, I struggled to get my climbing skins to grip on side hill traverse. We took off the skis to bag Callaghan, back to camp to pack up around noon to head out towards Callaghan Lake, while Jordan, Bram, Champagne and Julian went back to Ring direction. Len had serious skin glue problem, large chunk of glue sticking to the ski base. After some white gas and scrapper treatment, it was good for until use the skin. so he just use the glue as kick wax.
Sunday was overcast. We attempted to get out by traverse a ridge system on West of the upper Callaghan Lake but a brief white out has abandoned our ambitious plan. So we generally followed the opposing party's up-track, but the visibility improved short after. See the markup Google Earth
Plenty of thigh-burning tele turns were had in our group (4 tele 1 snowshoer). I could do 10 of those with my semi heavy pack before I had to put on this grim expression to pull off another two, then a really long one (couldn't get back up from low stance because exhausted thigh muscles), then a huge paramark turn followed by straight lining. We had lots fun making turns on the corn snow. It was one of the greatest Spring skiing I have had. Skied down to Callaghan Lake and traversed west bank to the south end.
By then we were all pretty tired and finding ourselves on the wrong side of the creek that drains the lake with the logging road visible across from us. My foot were burning inside the boots anyways so we waded across the creek, mostly ankle deep but got to past my knee at the end. Cold water creeped into the liner, it was rather a exhilarating to the feet. Then the fun part - XC the rest of 7km in oozy boots.
We made it to the get away car at 6pm. Enjoyed the pre-placed clean cloth and sandals. Piotr and Anne had a bath in the creek. We drove off for Shady Tree for well deserved feast and car swap.
Great times.
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