Headed up into the Mendocino National Forest again. Anthony Peak just outside of Covelo in Round Valley was our destination.
We took the 162, which turns into FH7 from Covelo and drove up 17 miles. The road is plowed to 4200' and sometimes beyond.


We camped just off the road the first night.



Looking south down the Coastal Crest towards Mendocino Pass with Black Butte covered in clouds


Snow covered Live Oaks


Alpenglow


We packed up camp the next day and moved it up higher off of the road.



We set up our second camp and proceeded to hit the top of the ridge.
Sirjibalot skinning up from camp II



Farther up and the trees started getting thicker.


Two hours later we hit the ridge road and got socked in with weather.



We decided to bail and try again the next day. We had one more day before our window closed and we wanted to try and beat the afternoon buildup. We skied back down to camp in deep mank and proceeded to cook up some stake and potatoes. (someone forgot to bring the spoons)


We woke the next day to heavy winds, snow and cloud cover. The window had shut.
Looking down towards Round Valley from camp II


Heavy fog and high winds make the Coast Range almost impossible to ski in during storm conditions. The fog comes in so thick you get vertigo and end up stumbling around all day. And the winds can reach incredable speeds! We decided to bag the trip for now and come back when more consolidation and better weather would make for a more enjoyable and visible trip. More on this place in the near future.

THIS is sirjibalot skinning up from camp II
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Kick ass jib,

I've been waiting for a report from you with the Coast Ranges getting hit so hard.
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This looks like fun terrain.
I can't believe you went out to Covelo. That's awesome. Hey at least you don't have to worry about Caltrans closing roads.

I'm ready for Hull!

That shot of Anthony Peak is from the west side. The best skiing is on the east side. I'll put up a topo in a few days. Many peaks to ski in this area. I couldn't believe they plow the road! We got to within 3 miles of Mendocino Pass. The approach from the east (Stonyford, Elk Creek - the other side of highway 162) is forever. Covelo is a very trippy place.

Summited Anthony Peak on Tue. 1/18. I was able to drive 2 miles past where sirjibalot and I skinned up two weeks ago. I was 1 mile from the pass. Didn't see any obvious lines up through the trees, so I skinned up the road to Mendocino Pass. I had to backtrack that mile when I got to the pass and turned north onto the M4. FH7 continues south towards Black Butte, 6 miles away.
The temps where warm at 4600' where I parked the Jeep. The snow had consolidated however, and I stayed on top. Suprisingly, I did not clump all day.
From Mendocino Pass-5012'-it's 4 miles to Anthony Peak-6954'. No route finding, just follow the road. Lots of picture taking and two scenic detours later I arrived at the summit in 4.5 hours. I was able to scope out a line down to the Jeep from the M4 so cut at least 2 miles off of the return trip which only took an hour. I can't up- load picture to biglines from my computer(what the hull?!?!?!), so am still waiting to access someone elses computer...
From the summit you can see Black Butte, Snow Mountain, Hull Mountain, Sanhedrin Mountain, all to the south. And to the north are the Yolla Bollys. I haven't been up there yet, so the only mountains that I could identify on the map are South Yolla Bolly(Mt. Linn), and Hammerhorn Ridge which contains Hammerhorn Mountain. Also Uhl Peak, about 1 mile north of Anthony. Lassen and Brokeoff could be seen across the Sacramento Valley.
Excellent skiing abounds here. The north bowl is the steepest. Unfortunately, the snow sucked so I didn't really ski any runs. I was concerned how long it would take to get back on a nearly flat 4 mile long road. I did catch a good run down off of the M4 down to the Jeep however. About 600' of super glop that will be great in corn conditions. This is also an excellent starting point for Black Butte.
Sirjibalot always says "It's hard sayin' not knowin'." Now I know. Oh, and powderwhore - that pic you liked - not the top.

this is Black Butte (left) and Snow Mountain (right, background)


Hull Mountain


Mt. Sanhedrin


Round Valley from the summit of Anthony Peak


Bear tracks seen on the M4


One of my favorite things about this place
is the weather station at Mendocino Pass.
http://www.met.utah.edu/cgi-bin/roman/m ... 1&time=GMT
http://www.northbayweather.com/cgi-bin/ ... s&state=ca


Mendocino Pass

Saturday, April 8th, we made it to 6800 ft on Anthony Ridge. We skied a steep bowl that dropped south from the saddle between the true summit to the west of us and a lesser summit (6700) to our east. We had storm conditions, vertigo was a problem in the bowl, but the snow was otherwise unlike any I've skied. This was my first time skiing the Coast Range. The recently fallen snow (2-6 inches) was the perfect density and smeared effortlessly onto the frozen south facing slopes that we skied. I will not try to define the snow further, it's just different from anywhere I've skied. If you haven't skied this range, do so; it's a wild, brooding range of mountains, the crest of which is only 40 miles from the Pacific, and we also saw no other people for the two days we spent here.

The really good lines (we could do some scouting when we got a break in the storm) were dropping east from Anthony summit into a beautiful old-growth forest. These Utah-Esque, E/NE slopes off Anthony would be ideal to do laps on, but our approach took too much time so we had to ski south toward the FH7 where the cars were parked.

The top bowl kicked us into a steep creek drainage, which we traversed out of and linked up with a lower, rockier face that had amazing coverage for being south facing and at only 5-6,000 ft in elevation. Good stuff. Some wide open trees made for some more good skiing, but the snow soon rotted below 5,000 ft and we put the skins on to deal with the forest.

1,800 feet of skiable, user-friendly snow in storm conditions exceeded my expectations--despite the vertigo.

The backcountry skier set on taking advantage of all the great skiing on Anthony (15 feet of snow at 6200 ft was our guess) this spring would be wise to winter camp up on the ridge, so that the goods can be enjoyed over and over again. Due to the storm and the time, we didn't want to skin back up to the ridge to do another lap or else to attain the M4 to ski back along the road back to the car.

As it was we went down, and down and down... We took off our skis around 4200, after much skin-controlled manuevering through the dense forest, and walked down through the patchy snowpack, arriving at the FH7 just at dark, from here we had a pleasant, moonlit 2.5 mile stroll up the plowed road to snow line, and the cars. Skiing and then hiking down to the FH7 from Anthony Ridge, as we did, is a viable option if you spend all day attaining the ridge and have time for only one run, and this is especially viable with the current, low elevation snow up there. The key in doing this is to stay OUT of the creek beds. These are full-on Coast Range, creek-gorges and you don't want to get funneled into one unless you like being soaked to the core. If you manage to stay out of the drainages the forest is soft and easy to walk through. Luckily, we connected with two huge mud slides which made the descent to the road even quicker.

No matter how you do it, the approach to Anthony, from the FH7 is lengthy, and a low snow level makes for a really long day. I'm wondering if there's not better, more direct access to the summit from the M1.

Anyways, here's a link to all the pics I took:

http://homepage.mac.com/hartje/PhotoAlbum76.html

Big thanks to Jibmaster for supplying some great beta and for firing up my Coast Range stoke engine!

Shawn Hartje

Nice job Hartje! Welcome to the Coastal Crest Snow Patrol! :D
I wish I could have been there. There are a few shortcuts to make the skinning time shorter and add more turns on the way back. But it's hard to see the way when it's all socked in...
Gotta get you to Hull. Steeper lines. Thinking of heading up there on Tue/Wed.

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Left the house at 3:30am and pulled into Willits by 6am.
It was dumping snow.


More snow in Covelo.


We were able to snag a parking spot. The same one
as last week (Mendo. Pass TR).


The snow was epic. Snow level was down to 1500'
on highway 101 on the way in. We were parked at 3900'.
It was impossible to make a snowball down by the Jeep.
Nice and dry.
My partner for the day was janzalo. He had never been
here before. Needless to say, we were stoked.

The skin up was so nice. We skinned up the road for 5 minutes and started up the meadows.
Breaking trail about 6-10 inches.
I'm used to ice in the morning and corn in the afternoon
here in the Coast Range.
What was all this fluffy stuff?!


Of course it was foggy. It always is when it storms here.
We were parked just below the broad open meadows at 4000'.
The plan was to stick to the skinners left up the ridge.
But not too left. Don't want to drop into any western
aspect drainages on the way up.

janzalo heading up the meadows.


Another reason to skin up on the left, but not too far left,
is that when the fall line starts going more west, into the next
drainage, the trees start. Visibility is grim without the trees.

The few pictures I have don't even come close to showing
the intense beauty of what we experienced.
The woods were so amazing. Every little twig was covered
in crystals. Perfectly preserved.




Farther up, the fir, pine and cedar started taking over.
Look out behind you janzalo!


We were headed for the upper road. The M4. Take that left
and it will lead you right to Anthony Peak.
The M4 is guarded by an army of miniature oak trees.
The meadows end after 1000' of skinning and the woods start
closing in. The last thousand feet, from 5- 6000' is a maze
of mind boggling proportion. It never ends.
Tight squeeze through branches. Actually, we weren't sure if the
trees were short or the snow was so deep that we were
actually UP IN the trees.
The snow in here was anywhere from 5-10 feet deep.
We saw 15 foot drifts.

janzalo worming his way through the tree army.


The forest was so thick that we had to zip up
our goretex shells all the way to the top.
Hood and all to stay dry - so much snow was
branchalanching onto us from squirming our way through
the trees.

2.5 hours later we gain the M4.


The road was buried deep with epic lines through the forest below.
We skinned over tall drifts and through the woods
to Anthony Peak we go.
I know the way
to ski all day
through the white and drifted snow...

The wind was stronger up here, but not enough to knock any snow
off the trees. By the time we got to the summit ridge, the fog was
thick and there were no trees. Two large rock outcroppings
were the only relief from WHITE. Twice, I skinned off
a 3-5 foot drift. It's hard to say. I couldn't see what I had fallen off of.

2.5 hours after gaining the M4, we were on the summit.
janzalo


then janzalo busted out his gat and demanded money from me.


I swore I'd get him back. And my money...

We skied cautiously down the summit ridge
and got a sweet run down the east side and down to the road.
I can't believe the trees up near the summit were
still standing, they had so much snow on them.


Once down on the M4 we retraced our route
and found some nice speed and air off of the drifts we
had skinned up.
I got janzalo back too. He never saw it coming.


Once back at our M4 entrance, we got some REALLY NICE skiing
down through the snow covered trees.
The snow was unreal. Very dry. Yet not smoke dry.
Not face shots, but definetaly powder.
Only sinking in about 8-12 inches with fat skis,
but if you fell down, you were screwed. I have huge baskets
on my poles and I fell twice.
I couldn't get up! My poles just kept going deeper and deeper.

This is a great powder run. Low angle so you can keep
the speed up as you dodge trees. Classic powder tree skiing.

And of course I pretended I had a helmet cam.
Trying to get video footage with a small digi camera
in one hand and my poles in the other
I attempting a kicker to catch some air -
- it didn't turn out like I had hoped.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... &plindex=2

:lol:

So I tried again.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 2287741296

The army of miniature oak trees tried to nab us,
but we made it through and down into the open meadows.
By now the fog had settled and there was no visibility.
We tried to stick to skiers right - by the tree line at the edge
of the western aspect and found some shading in the WHITE.
The last several hundred feet we cut right and
dropped some steeps right down almost on top of the Jeep.

My camera fizzled out shortly after that fall in the first video,
so it was all fogged up.
The skiing into the meadows was
out of control. The snow was so good.
Just imagine your most favorite sparsely treed,
low angle powder run with a bunch of rollers to get air.
It was sick. :shock:
I still can't believe it.

Everything went perfectly.
We rolled down into the Eel River Work Station.
The local Ranger Station.
We went to the Black Butte Store to grab a beer.
You gotta ring the bell and someone eventually comes out of the
trailer and opens the store for us. Well stocked store.
This store hasn't been opened in years past.
Much better than the Soda Creek Store at Hull.
:lol:
Although the Soda Creek Store has more soul.

Round Valley/Covelo on the way out - around 4:30pm

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Dude.

Dude... :shock:
This place rocks. This is only the second time I have skied down through the trees from the M4.
This picture says it all. Look at the background.
We skinned up this road for over an hour and saw
TONS of killer lines through the trees.


All these lines drop you right down onto the FH7(highway 162).
And the only private property you will cross is Coreys place
(mentioned in the Mendo. Pass TR).
He will be stoked to see any human-powered skier or boarder pass through his property. He's way cool.
There will be more posts in the Mendocino Pass TR.
The amount of time it takes to summit Anthony Peak
could be used to lap this area.
Unbelievable tree skiing terrain. Perfect for storm skiing.

They PLOW THE ROAD here. No Hullatious driving issues.
Hull, we even saw a mini van drive up to where we were parked.
No crazy 4wheeling. Anyone can get here.

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Great Master 'O Jib:

Another nice TR from the coastal range. 8)
You're like the John Moynier of the coastals. Should write a book man. Other than your TR's, not sure if there is any other info out of those mtns...

Thanks for posting. And great video :lol:

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Mendocino National Forest. With nearly one million acres of
snow covered mountains to explore, I'm never bored.

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Although I no longer live in this area, was able to grow up in the area. there are numerous places to explore in this vast wilderness. on top of anthony peak, there is an armature radio repeater, with a weather station on it. the info is posted daily by Dave in Covelo, http://coveloweather.info/index.html
it is at the bottom of the page. sometimes however, wind direction wind speed, and snow depth will not be available due to icing.

Nice! I've been disapointed with the weather station at Mendo. Pass lately.
Thanx a million for the link.

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two things about the "mendo pass" weather station. one, it is run by the forest service, so do not expect it to be back online until some time in june. also, it is in key location for vandalism. the other thing, is the weather station is actually not at Mendocino pass, but rather it is above it, at the board ridge road turn off (please note board ridge road is not passable with any regular vehicle) I mention the road to give people a location closer to where the currently non operable weather station is located (pictured above if you dont know what I am talking about)

Yup. The top of Board Ridge is also known as Weather Station Peak.

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Part I:

The month started out with a trip to South Yolla Bolly.
On Tuesday, January 1st, snowblasta and I set out for about two weeks.
We drove up to Corning and into the Coast Range.
We were going to ski in from the gate to South Yolla Bolly.
The locals were out and about near Paskenta.


I knew the snowline was pretty low, but figured we could make it to the gate,
which is at 4000'.
We ran into snow on the road around 2000'.
The Jeep took us to just around 3000'.
Still several miles from the gate.
The road heads up a steep hill and around to north facing.
With about 2-3 feet of icy snow.
I wasn't comfortable about leaving the Jeep unattended for several days.
No places off the main road to stash it.
After considering our situation, we decided to turn around and head for Anthony Peak.
Perfect place to be during low snow level situations.
But it's now getting late in the day.
I figured it would take about 7 hours
to drive back out to Corning,
down to highway 20 and around Clear Lake and up the 101
and out on the 162 to Covelo.

So we decided to spend the night.
We drove down lower and found a spot on a side road.
In a cow pasture.
We spent the night in the Jeep.
I curled up in the back, on top of all our gear and snowblasta
layed down across the two front seats.
We didn't think it was a good idea to set up the tents.

The next day, we set out for Covelo. I was wanting to take the
scenic route down along the Coast Range, through Stonyford.
But got turned around. We actually started driving up the M4
near Paskenta.
I was running out of gas and didn't want to make any mistakes.
So I decide to check my directions at the Salt Creek Workstation.
We pull in to find a bunch of cops, Forest Rangers and 70 or 80
prisoners in orange jumpsuits, heading out for a work day.
A mud-covered Jeep with skis on top, out in the middle of nowhere.
The prisoners are all lined up waiting to load the big red trucks.
Just staring at us.
One of them looks just like Snoop Dog, or whatever his name is now.
It was strange.

Out near the town of Nice, on the north side of Clear Lake,
my clutch started acting up. Been having trouble the past
few months.
Running out of clutch fluid. It would work around home, but
the last couple trips, it kept dying on me.
So now, we are fighting for gears and refusing to go home, yet.
We make it to Willits and add some more clutch fluid.
Grab a burger in town and said "To Hull with it - we're going in!"
Our timing was perfect. Just as we get to highway 162,
They are within hours of closing the road
to fix a washout. Just barely made it.
We were told the road would be closed for 24 hours.
No problem, we are planning on staying for a few days.

Anthony Peak on the way in to Covelo.


Covelo sits in Round Valley surrounded by snow covered peaks.


It ended up taking 7.5 hours to make the drive.
The snow was just starting to melt off the meadows at 4000'
when we drove in. They had the road plowed all the way
to the Pass. Mendocino Pass is just over 5000'.

It's now Wednesday evening. Lots of activity.
Families sledding, met a couple of the locals.
Saw some guys in a golf cart looking rig with 4 tractor treads.
Then some other yahoo's show up and proceed to get stuck.


Lots of tracks in the snow from other people with the same idea.
We kicked back and watched as these guys attempt to dig out
their vehicles with their hands. No shovels or anything.
Crazy.
Eventually, everyone gets unstuck, takes off and we have the Pass to ourselves.
We pitch our tents on the snow and pass out.

Thursday arrives. Slightly overcast and cold.
I have been here many times. Car camping. The local
land owners don't mind. Never had any trouble here, but
was a bit apprehensive about leaving the vehicle.
So we decide to head in for only four days.

Looking up to Anthony Peak from Mendo. Pass.


Down to Round Valley from the Pass.


The road was pretty icy. Just barely able to grip with our waxless/scaled bases.
We had slept in, so got a late start.
Several miles up the road, we called it for the day.


Very cold. Once inside the tent and in the bag, everything was warm.
Until my air mattress decided to loose air.
5 times.
I didn't get much sleep. I kept waking up from the cold snow beneath me.
Then I would blow up the mattress again.
And again. I was wishing I had my big foam pad.
I wasn't going to spend the next three nights fighting the cold
While traveling even further from the vehicle.
So we decided to go for a day trip to Anthony and come back to our camp.

Friday we wake up and jib on up the road.
The skies were clear, the sun was out.
It was nice to have only day gear in our packs.
snowblasta enjoying the day.




Here's the top of the M4, above Paskenta, where we saw the prisoners.


Looking down to Round Valley, covered in fog.


Bear tracks/Anthony in the background




A few more miles and we're almost there.


Just after that sign, we head left and up to the summit ridge.


Looking south down the summit ridge
Weather Station Peak(middle/foreground - a couple miles past is Mendocino Pass.
Background is Black Butte(L), Snow Mt.(middle), Hull Mt.(just right of center)


Close-up of Hull Mt.s' north side.
Left to right
OB Bowl on left skyline/Hullafar Bowl/the top of Hullaska Ridge/the Hullbacks/the summit.


snowblasta at the top


Doing my best GSA impression


Looking north
Solomon Peak (L) and South Yolla Bolly (R)


SYB


Had a great ski down. Double check the video quality is on 720p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ILZSFSEGcc

Got back to camp and prepared for another cold night
fighting with my air mattress.






Saturday, January 5, we decide to break camp, ski back to the Pass
and head home to deal with the Jeep issue.
I have the whole month off, but snowlbasta had only taken about two weeks off.
We still had time.

As I ski down to the Pass, I can see the Jeep. Still a little wary of our
decision to abandon the vehicle for a few days.
As I ski up, I'm looking at the Jeep. Looking for anything strange or
out of place.
The Jeep is backed into a parking spot. So I'm approaching it from behind
and a bit to the right.
As I get closer, I can see something is on the fender.
Even closer, and I can see the hood latch is open and the thing on the
fender is my winch remote switch.
"Are you serious?!" Yup - someone had used my winch.
As I came around the front of the Jeep, the winch cable is still strung out on the road.
A crappy pair of jumper cables is lying on the ground and the rubber
electric tower covers on the winch have been pulled off.
Like someone was trying to jump their vehicle with my winch.
I lift up the hood to see if my battery is still there.
Still there.
The driver window is unzipped.
I can't remember where I put my wallet!
The Jeep was packed with tons of gear.
As I open the door, I'm fearing the worst.

Everything looks exactly how we left it. Lucky for us, the remote switch for the winch,
which is what they were looking for, was just behind the driver seat.
They didn't have to rummage through the vehicle to find it.
The only thing missing is my jack. You know, the one that comes with
a vehicle. Mounted in the engine compartment.
Where they thinking about stealing my tires?

Strange - I mean, who the Hull needs jumper cables, a winch and a jack all in one night?!
'Prolly just tossed the jack in their truck by mistake as they were leaving.
They were most likely too drunk to think about re-coiling the winch cable.
And they forgot their jumper cables.
It could have been much worse. My impression is just some needy folks
who were sloppy drunk.
Glad I could help out, even if I wasn't even there.

Will be parking at Cory's place from now on...should have taken him up on his offer...

We limped home in the broken Jeep and spent almost $1000 to get the clutch fixed.
Took several days.
Then it was back on the road for part II.

The full set of pics
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I'm wondering if anyone of you that seems familiar with the area of Mendocino Natl. Park & Anthony Peak area, could hint me a bit.

I'm from overseas in Europe and visiting this week in San Francisco on business, but planing afterward a three day MC trip in the northern part of California.

Might you have any idea how one could expect to find the road and weather conditions for coming weekend 23th-24th february in this area and elevation?

I'm thus thinking of passing from country road 200 east of the Mendocino Park to Covelo and road 162 across roads like Round Valley rd, Nf-23N05, Nf-M9, Nf-23N02, Nf-23N69, Fh7/Mendocino Pass rd. Alternative taking a route bit further south along Hwy 162/Alder Springs rd to Mendocino Pass rd, as this might be better/easier.

Seeing some your wonderful skiing reports with recent pictures of high snow in the area, now made me wonder if these are good roads to pass this time of year from the back country towards the sea and the redwood area or I should to plan for a longer detour north via road 36 instead?

Thanks in Advance for your thoughts!

/Steffen, Denmark

None of those roads are passable in the winter. Highway 20 or 36 are the only routes available during this time of year.
Due to a low snow year this time around, one might be able to drive through if you had a respectable 4wheel drive vehicle with lockers, but it's probably not possible. Usually too much snow.
We just had a storm blow through which dropped 6-8 inches of snow with snow levels down to 1500'.
Another storm system is set to pass through the area next Sat.

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jibmaster, thanks a lot!

Too bad thou :9

Yes I heard of storm Q, but since temperature seems to have been fair/nice last couple of weeks at the Mendocino Pass rd station I thought maybe the roads were passable.

Might think of crossing Costal Range Mountains by 36 then.

The FH7 (highway 162) is the route that crosses the Coast Range. From near Stonyford to Covelo.
The road is kept plowed to Alder Springs on the east side and the locals plow the road coming out of Covelo, up to Mendocino Pass.
It's that middle part that passes by Black Butte that will be covered in snow.
It has been so cold the past couple months/really low sun angle - Nothing is really melting. That section will not be drivable. South facing slopes have/will melt, but the road faces straight up...
The snow just sits there.
This website shows the snow cover.
Center the map and retype the current date, etc.
Then hit redraw map.

http://www.nohrsc.nws.gov/interactive/h ... &js=1&uc=0

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