Archive:2011 4 week Spring Ski Traverse

Tim Blair, Evan Morris, Greta Raymont and Ben Singleton-Polster are planning a traverse of the Juneau Icefiled. This page is being used to help them plan logistics.

Next Meeting: Tuesday Apr 5 at Ben's

Schedule

• April 22 to May 23 total of 31 days including travel

Food

• Are we doing sleds or food drops?

Flight Information (with prices)

Trip Dinners

1 food group: Each person plans 7 dinners for 4 people

Trip Breakfasts

Do we want any group breakfasts? - yes with a food drop, no without

Travel Day

Leave April 22nd.

Travel Logistics

Juneau Icefield:

Option 1: Drive Evan's truck to Skagway. Catch ferry from Skagway to Juneau on Sun 24th 2.30pm arriving in Juneau at 9pm, $50pp. Approx. car costs $750pp

Total travel cost approx. $800pp

Option 2: Fly to and from Juneau with Alaska Airlines (approx. $775 inc. taxes return from Van or $536 inc. taxes return from Seattle). Flight time Van-Juneau approx 6-7 hrs including layover in Seattle (all flights to Juneau from Van go through Seattle). Baggage allowance - 1-3 bags $20 each then 4 or more bags are $50 each. Oversize bags (max dimensions exceed 62 linear inches) additional $50-$75 each. Overweight bags (exceeds 51 pounds) additional $50 each.

If flying from Seattle, $130 per month to park Evans truck at Skyway Parking close to Seattle airport.

Either fly or ferry from Skagway back to Juneau. Fly Skagway to Juneau $118 with Wings of Alaska (flights leave daily)http://www.wingsofalaska.com/, or Air Excursions (907) 697-2375(allowed 70 pounds of luggage pp).

OR: Ferry Skagway to Juneau. Departs Skagway 7am May 20 and 21, arriving Juneau 1.30pm. $50pp

Total approx. travel cost flying Van-Juneau $1050pp with ferry Ska-Jun OR $1120pp with flying Ska-Jun

OR

Total approx. travel cost flying Seattle-Juneau $830pp with ferry Ska-Jun OR $900 with flying Ska-Jun

Group Gear

• Sat Phone (Confirmed rental through [1] April 22 to May 24)
• SPOT (Tim's)
• 2 X 30m ropes (Ben and Tim)
• 2 stoves (Ben's Simmerlite and ????)
• Fuel, 110ml/per/day = ???
• First Aid Kit (list items here)
  • Tensor bandage
  • Ibuprofen
  • Tylenol 3
  • Robaxacet
  • Benedryl
• Binding repair kit
  • Voile switchback (2xstandard rod, 2xcartridge, 1xheel, wire, pliers, screw driver (pozi3, ....)) - Ben
  • dynafiddle - Tim
  • Targa Assent or whatever Evan and Greta bring

• sewing kit (?????)
• 1:50 topo maps
  • 93D01
  • 92M16
  • 92M09
  • 92N05
  • 92N04
  • Tim to add others!
• tents - If we want a 4 person tent we would need to buy it.

Personal Gear

• Evan's skis

Sleds

• Materials
  • Plastic Grommets - Tim
• Build sleds at Ben's place April 5th.

Gear To get (put name beside)

1:20 imap printouts of tricky sections (Ben has tyvex/plastic paper)?

General Phone Numbers

• Mark Grist: 604-987-6336
• Tyax Air (Dale): 1-888-892-9288
• Mike King (Whitesaddle Air): 250-476-1182
• CAA avalanche forcast : 1-800-667-1105
• East side of traverse weather:
• West side of traverse weather, Bella Coola:

Emergency Phone Numbers and Info

• Tim
  • Tim's Mum (Jill): 604-929-0806
  • Mirella Mazur (Tim's Girlfriend): 604-971-1005
• Ben
  • Allergic to Penicillin
  • Ben's Parents (Genevieve and Dave): 250-746-8052 or 250-701-1054
  • Frances Sharpe (Ben's Girlfriend): 778-868-8409
• Evan
  • Evan's Mom (Dolores): 604-591-9579
  • Evan's Dad (Al): 778-773-5527
• Greta
  • Greta's parents (Chris/Nev): +613-5367-3258

Trip Plan

Juneau Icefield

Backup Plan

Clendinning/Compton?

Maps

Juneau http://crevassezone.org/icefield.htm

Iskut Stikine

Compton Clendenning

Personal Gear

Entertainment

• Book (max 1 per person)
• deck of cards ?

Personal Clothing

• 2 pairs skiing socks
• 1 pair sleeping socks
• 2 pairs skiing underwear
• 1 pair sleeping underwear
• 1 warm lower
• 1 base lower (preferred light, to wear in the sun)
• 1 shell lower
• 1 warm upper
• 1 base upper (preferred light, high collar, to wear in the sun)
• 1 shell upper
• optional addittional warm upper
• toque/balaclava
• down jacket
• 1 pair gloves with removable liners
• 1 pair overmit shells
• 1 pair lightweight gloves to protect hands from sun
• optional gaiters
• camp booties (or equivalent)

Personal Skiing Gear

• Skiis
• Skins
• Poles
• Boots + Liners + orthotics
• Beacon spare batteries
• Shovel
• Probe

Personal Large bits

• (!) Huge Pack modify lid to enable day tripping
• Sled are we still good to use garbage bags?
• Sled towing crap - long webbing with elastic inside, 2 biners, Voile strap

Personal Small bits

• Voile Straps (4 each - two medium one large one garbage sealer)
• Sunglasses
• Goggles (lighter lenses?)
• Sunscreen
• Sunhat/sunshield
• nosesheild
• 2x extra webbing straps to attach random crap
• hand sanitizer/soap
• toothbrush
• toothpaste
• dental floss
• TP!
• spf30 or better Lip Balm
• moisturizer with aloe
• small knife, < 50g
• lighter
• pee funnel for the ladies
• menstrual cup for the ladies (better than disposables - if it works for you)
• Birth control (at least for Line)
• small cloth
• whistle
• Compass
• Headlamp spare batteries
• Camera spare batteries

Personal Sleeping

• Sleeping Pad
• Sleeping Bag

Mountain Gear

• 2x 30m ropes (maybe buy new lighter ones?)
• 1 iceaxe each
• Ski Crampons
• Harnesses
• Helmets (?)
• 2 prussiks each
• 2 small locking biners each
• 1 large locking biner
• 1 double length sling each
• 2 non-lockers

Group

• (Tim) Tent
• (Evan and Greta) Tent
• Kickwax ????
• (Ben) Globstopper
• (Tim) Maps
• (Ben) Guidebook - photocopy relavent peaks
• (Tim) GPS spare batteries
• (Ben) Altimeter
• (Ben) Sat Phone with spare battery
• (Christian and Steve) 2x pots
• (Christian and Steve) 2x stoves with repair kits
• (Christian and Steve) 2x windscreens
• (Christian and Steve) 2x heat exchangers
• (Line) 1x pot scrapers
• (Line) 1x scrubbies
• (Steve) 1x spondonacles
• (Line) Fuel Email faff about how much
• (Madeleine) Extra salt and pepper
• (leftover from kayak) Water drops
• (Line) black plastic for water generation

==== Repair kit ==== (Christian and Line) note: spare ski pole, tent pole segment, and sunglasses in group kit

• small roll duct tape
• 25' steel wire
• small multitool
• small screwdriver
• small file
• 1x G3 repair kit screws
• 2x extra binding cables
• 2x extra cartridges
• 3x extra heel throws (Steve got one)
• spare skin tip loop
• seam grip
• 2 m of 2mm elastic cord
• 15m 2-3mm cord
• spare basket
• goretex patches
• thermarest patch kit
• spare thermarest valve

Eating

• Bowl/measuring cup
• optional shaker cup
• Spoon
• Nalgene
• Water Bladder

Not bringing

• Extra iceaxe
• Snowsaw
• Pickets
• Rock Pro
• Belay Device

References

http://bivouac.com/TripPg.asp?TripId=1291 Coast Range Ski Traverse: http://bivouac.com/TripPg.asp?TripId=1319

Link to wiki page for Lillooet - Homathko Icefield Traverse April 14 - May 6 2006 Link to wiki page for Whitemantle Traverse 2008 Link to wiki page for Stikine-Iskut_2009

Smithers ski plane [2]

Bob Quinn helicopter available in May. $1500 food drop onto Stikine Iskut. [3]