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Backcountry Ski/Snowboard - Bullion Basin

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Backcountry Ski/Snowboard - Bullion Basin

Tour to chase some early Spring storm-deposited goods.

Contacts

Paul Brown
Paul Brown
Primary Leader
  • Moderate, M2 Advanced Ski
  • Moderate
  • Mileage: 8.0 mi
  • Elevation Gain: 4,500 ft
  • High Point Elevation: 6,800 ft

8:15AM at the Bullion Basin TH, behind the former location of the Chapel at the Crystal Mountain base area, ready to skin.

This tour is a fall-back from a Mount St Helens ski mo climb that was canceled due to a forecast of intense weather in the alpine leading up to the trip.  The roster will be filled first from participants and the waitlist for that activity.

We will skin up the usual trail to Bullion Basin and then choose between skinning the ridge up to Bullion/Bluebell Peak or a more direct track up to Platinum Peak.

Trip destination and go/no-go may change when then NWAC forecast is out on Friday evening.

Route/Place

Bullion Basin


  • USGS Norse Peak
    Green Trails Bumping Lake No. 271
    Green Trails Mount Rainier Wonderland No. 269SX
  • See full route/place details.
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Required Equipment

Required Equipment

  • The Ten Essentials
  • Boots, skis/snowboard, poles
  • Climbing skins (or other method to travel uphill on snow) along with ski crampons as we will undoubtedly encounter icy conditions on exposed E aspects.
  • Avalanche shovel (metal blade)
  • Avalanche beacon (modern, three-antenna)
  • Avalanche probe
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