by Kristina | Dec 10, 2015 | Mt. Rainier, Skiing, Turns All Year
For November turns this year, Muir seemed to answer the ‘Where to ski?’ question. The tutu made three visits to the mountainside camp.Situated on the south side of Mt. Rainier at 10,188′, it’s both very accessible and incredibly remote. Muir is...
by Kristina | Oct 22, 2015 | Mt. Rainier, Skiing, Turns All Year, Tutu
People love to hate social media. I get it. It’s invasive. It takes the place of real relationships in your life. It causes FOMO….But it’s also kind of awesome. One of the things that I’m really loving lately is #ThrowbackThursday, or #tbt if...
by Kristina | Oct 16, 2015 | Skiing, Turns All Year, Tutu
All of the TAYers (as we call ourselves) were pretty worried about finding snow this summer. Well, as it turns out, when you’re mentally prepared and physically conditioned for suffering, it’s never as bad as you think it’s going to be. Or something...
by Kristina | Oct 8, 2015 | Backcountry, Costumes, Mountains, Mt. Rainier, Skiing, Turns All Year
I’m on the record as saying it was a pretty dismal winter, and I also mused that skiing this summer was going to be the worst. While both of those things remain true, skiing is still skiing thus AWESOME, and skiing when no one else is skiing makes it all the...
by Kristina | Jun 25, 2015 | Mt. Rainier, Skiing, Turns All Year, Tutu
It’s been warm – and we got no snow this winter. The snowpack in the Olympics was7% of normal this year, and the Cascades barely fared better with 18% of average (source). This means conditions on the mountains already look like late August, and it’s...
by Kristina | May 26, 2015 | Camping, Skiing, Turns All Year, Tutu
Mt. Shasta, located in Northern California, stands alone in its prominence, rising 10,000 ft above the surrounding plains. At 14,179 ft tall, Shasta is the 2nd highest peak in the Cascade Range (little sister to Rainier at 14,410). Shasta can be seen from 140 miles...
