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Sahale Mountain in June, North Cascades National Park.

Sweet summer tracks on Sahale Mountain, above Cascade Pass, North Cascades National Park.

The main focus of this catalog of links is backcountry telemark skiing. Geographically, it emphasizes the Pacific Northwest, particularly the Cascade Range of Washington and Oregon. Of course, many of the pages linked to here are of wider interest.

To ski down it, you first have to climb it. So you might want to look at my page of climbing links, too.

This page was updated in August, 2007.

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    permits:

    From November 15 to April 30 you need a sno-park permit to park at official state sno-park sites in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, or risk a ticket. (In Oregon, that includes all the ski areas around Mt Hood.) A permit from one state is good at the other two. If you park at an un-official spot on a hiway, you risk getting towed or having your car buried by a snow plow. It requires some judgment.

    The three states have fine websites with clickable maps of where their sno-park locations are, how to get permits, and lots of detailed and helpful info: Washington, Oregon, and Idaho

    And here are links to info for all the other outdoor parking permits.

    conditions:
  1. atmos.washington.edu/data/aval.cgi has the current avalanche data for western Washington and Oregon, from Mt.Baker to Crater Lake.
  2. It can also be found, very usefully in html, at nwac.noaa.gov, the Northwest Avalanche Center
  3. North American avalanche info is found at the excellent avalanche.org
  4. UMich Weather's expanded WeatherCams page and its Ski Weather page.
  5. wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/snotel: backcountry telemetry at the National Water & Climate Center
  6. Lowell Skoog has a comprehensive site for the Pacific NW, with topos, weather forecasts, camera images, and more
  7. atmos.washington.edu/maciver/roadview/i90 is a clickable map giving air and ground temps, weather, conditions, etc, for I-90 from Seattle over Snoqualmie Pass to Ellensburg. Cool. It also links to the same kind of image map for US2 over Stevens Pass.
  8. skiwashington.com/jake.htm: Jake Moe's Snow Report (for Washington)

    personal pages:
  9. turns-all-year.com is Turns-All-Year Backcountry Telemark Skiing in the Pacific Northwest, a very nicely put-together site.
  10. skisickness.com Sky Sjue's stunning ski descents (and climbs, too, naturally) of the great peaks of the Pacific Northwest.
  11. mtnphil.com is Phil Fortier's "Skiing and climbing stories from the Pacific Northwest"
  12. alpineslider.com has Sam Avaiusini's terrific climbing and skiing trip reports.
  13. skimountaineer.com has good stuff, including skimountaineer.com/CascadeSki/CascadeSki.html: Skiing the Cascade Volcanoes.
  14. wildsnow.com/links.html: Lou's Eclectic Backcountry links page
  15. staff.washington.edu/gregm: Greg's Climbing and Skiing Webpage, Illustrated, including a page on the Enigma Couloir on the N. side of Mt. Snoqualmie
  16. and Phil Fort's page EnigmaSki.html at his site mtnphil.com
  17. Dr. Telemark has a bunch of streaming movies -- plus a lot more

    print magazines:
  18. Couloir has now merged with Backcountry, at backcountrymagazine.com.
  19. powdermag.com: Powder
  20. freeskier.com: Freeskier

    online magazines:
  21. freeheels.com is an online magazine for Northwest US backcountry skiers
  22. telemarktips.com
  23. telemark-online.de is mostly in German, but check out their links page.
  24. telemark.ch, from Switzerland, in German, mostly, but with videos
  25. skiersjournal.com/index.php?option=com_weblinks&Itemid=23

    ski areas:
    Gotta get those turns in....
    Washington:
    skiWashington.com links to them all very nicely, plus webcams, Powder Watch, and Snow Report
  26. But for a direct shot to the Washington Cascade ski area home pages, here are
    Snoqualmie Pass, Stevens Pass, Crystal Mountain, Mount Baker, Mission Ridge, and White Pass.
  27. For eastern Washington, go to Mount Spokane, 49Degrees North, and Bluewood.
    Oregon:
    skiOregon.org pretty much has it all, but if you want, you can go directly to the Cascade areas of
  28. Bachelor, Mt Hood Meadows, Mt Hood Skibowl, Timberline, and Willamette Pass, who all have web pages.
    Idaho:
  29. idahoWinter.org does have it all, with info and links for 18 ski areas, deals, and more.
  30. Or you can go directly to Sun Valley, Schweitzer, or Silver Mountain
    British Columbia:
  31. Take a look at bcSkiing.com, which lists over thirty (!) areas. Better yet,
  32. in the B.C. coast range, go (of course) to Whistler-Blackcomb;
  33. in the Okanogan Valley area enjoy the sun at Big White, Silver Star, or Apex Mountain;
  34. a little further east, try Rossland's prices and powder at Red Resort;
  35. and on the B.C. side of the Rockies, you'll find Fernie, Panorama, Kimberly, and Kicking Horse.

    And for completeness sake, here are SkiMontana and skiUtah.com, both very good sites.

    medicine:
  36. faculty.washington.edu/mtuggy/telepag1.htm is your tele-injury website
  37. and ski-injury.com/nordic.htm

    gear, mostly used:
  38. offpistemag.com has good gear reviews, but they seem to have dropped their used gear page
  39. mtntravelers.com/deals.cfm, in Rutland, Vermont
  40. geartrade.com/browse/116/790
  41. telemarkski.com
  42. For all those great pics, steves-digicams.com has good reviews, and look at zdnet.com/special/filters/sc/camera/, the Digital Camera SuperCenter.
  43. Plus, see Outdoor gear, my main gear page.
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