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Spent the long New Years weekend touring out of the Cascade Powder Cats yurt near Stevens Pass. The company has just this season opened up use of their yurt for non-guided parties and we were their first. Getting a ride in their snowcat up to the hut saved us eight miles of skinning uphill and let us bring along a few extras, like umpteen pounds of bbq pork and sausages for our dinners.
The weather was really cold, but clear, and the last storm had dumped a couple feet of powder for us to track up. Over the three days the wind took its toll on the upper slopes and windslabs messed up some of the most interesting terrain, but we farmed the wind sheltered slopes below the yurt and got in some nice touring.
Ryan runs a really nice operation at Cascade Powder Cats and its great that the Cascades have another hut to tour out of.
Spent the long New Years weekend touring out of the Cascade Powder Cats yurt near Stevens Pass. The company has just this season opened up use of their yurt for non-guided parties and we were their first. Getting a ride in their snowcat up to the hut saved us eight miles of skinning uphill and let us bring along a few extras, like umpteen pounds of bbq pork and sausages for our dinners.
The weather was really cold, but clear, and the last storm had dumped a couple feet of powder for us to track up. Over the three days the wind took its toll on the upper slopes and windslabs messed up some of the most interesting terrain, but we farmed the wind sheltered slopes below the yurt and got in some nice touring.
Ryan runs a really nice operation at Cascade Powder Cats and its great that the Cascades have another hut to tour out of.
