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      Five Mile Basin: 1-2-2011

      • cmcquade
        2011-01-07 22:52:18

        Five Mile Basin: 1-2-2011

        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
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        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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