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check out this, the official awesome chair peak pub crawl
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Avalanche conditions were going to be tricky today, we
knew that much. A foot plus of new snow had fallen on top
of the crust from a week ago, and there were reports of
graupel at Snoqualmie Pass. We decided at the parking lot
to give the Chair Peak circumnavigation a go because weather
was stable and visibility was very good. When we reached
the steep slope up to Bryant Col, Pete dug a shovel tap
test and found the 4 inches of snow sitting on top of 6
inches of graupel to slide very easily and then a one foot
slab of new, consolidated snow to slide moderately easily
on the week-old crust. So we bailed and skied back down
to Source Lake. We skinned back up into the bowl we skied
last weekend with the intention of climbing up to the ridge
and dropping down onto the Snow Lake side. We climbed up
the lower of two notches on the ridge, but when we topped
out, we found we were cliffed out.
Back down the way we climbed we skied, then just picked
the nicest looking lines around the east side of Chair,
working our way around finding the easiest pickings. Hence
we dubbed it the "pub crawl." We wound up getting
about 4,200 feet of skiing in on mostly untracked powder
with the occasional crusty section, which translates to
a pretty good day.
