Cascade POW dump and Awesome 4 day hut to hut trip!!!

After a white knuckle drive from Montana to Seattle, we finally made it over Snoqualmie pass and dipped into the city. A good thing we drove thru the night, because the Cascades were getting their biggest storm of the year, OVER 6 FEET, and the pass was closed the next day. Closed the pass was, but after a day of rest my legs were ready to ski 30+ inches overnight at Crystal Mountain, HAVE YOU EVER CHOKED ON SNOW it was sooo DEEP??? Yea... ill stop rubbing it in, but it was one of the best days of my life! After skiing the storm Sarah and I headed into the Cascades near Mount Rainer to ski into two different huts part of the Mount Tahoma Trails Association. The first day, we had great snow on the skin in and made some fun turns around the cabin!

Bruni's snow bowl cabin!

 Then it rained...alot... unfortunately we had to switch cabins and ski 5 miles in the rain to get to our new cabin, High Hut. When we got there, we were soaked and played boggle and many other games until all our stuff dried out.

 

Drying our stuff at high hut after skiing in a downpour or rain.

Just as we were sad and deciding if we should just leave and ski back to Seattle, we work up to a sunny Mount Rainer!!!!!!!

What we woke up to after 2 days of rain!

Extremely excited to see Rainer and the sun, we decided to ski around the hut and have a fun day in the snow!!

Getting ready to ski the "Outhouse chute"

Dropping into the outhouse chute with Rainer in the background

Sarah layin down some turns!

Cool lenticular clouds on Rainer!!!!

 After skiing a bit, we decided, hey, its such a nice day, why don't we build ourself a couch and then just relax and look at Rainer!? Well we got a little carried away, but this is what we made!

On our couch with High Hut in the background!

On our couch with Rainer in the background.

 

We left the cabin with smiles after a great 4 day ski trip, but unfortunately were greeted by 2 extra miles of  dirt road that we had skied up 3 days before :( The Cascades are funny that way I am finding out....