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Five Mile Basin: 1-2-2011

  • cmcquade
    2011-01-07 22:52:18

    What a great way to kick off 2011.  This was our second time to Nelson this season, our first being a break in tour of Evening Ridge.  Five Mile Basin is a classic day tour, with enough options to keep one busy for a weekend.  


    Condition Report:  irrelevant given my untimely posting and the 35cm of recent snow in the area.  So we will stick with a couple of pics.


    Tour of Five Mile Basin

    GPS tracks

    Line from Half Dome

    Our approx line from the summit of Half Dome

    Perfect timing (summit of Half Dome)

    Kristin enjoying the goods

    first to run this chute in 2011 :) - glad to stumple upon this one

    Our next line

    beginning of our 2nd line

    our lines at sunset

    Bonnington's at sunset:)


    cant wait for next weekend

  • snosnob
    2011-01-08 00:21:55

    5mile is always a great place to be when stability is right and judging by the photos the conditions were pretty primo. The Google Earth map was pretty slick - was that a GPS overlay of your route?

    Do those things track time and vert as well?

    great post thanks for the details - we could use one of those for all the routes on this site - keep 'em comin'.

  • admin
    Online
    2011-01-08 01:13:31

    Incredible pics - you should really consider submitting these to our photo comp - check out the rules here.


    Keep 'em comin'

  • cmcquade
    2011-01-08 12:40:32

    Snosnob: Google Earth Overlay. Those are true gps tracks for the skin up. The yellow lines are approximates of the line down. And I do have stats as well. It was 8 miles RT, with just shy of 6000' each way. Time i believe was 6-7 hours.
  • cmcquade
    2011-01-08 16:30:02

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