You snowshoers should get up there. Looks clear and nice with a bright full moon overhead!

James if you're going tomorrow around 5 or so I'd love to hook up. Call me if you're going.

yeah, let's meet in N Bend. I'm leaving from Montlake in Seattle. If you want to meet up for food on the way I'm in. Let me know.

Just a quick re-cap of last night.

A few brave souls met up at the alpental exit last night for what was the coldest evening I have ever experienced at the circuit.

The night started with a blazing ascent of tumble slope. We really ripped up there, mainly because we were all so cold. Once at the top we regained our warmth and started the move up the creek. I watched D1 and Fish cross the log and jump off right in the middle because there was so much snow... it was great... no worries there.

So we keep doing our normal jumps and at every big mound fish is going ... is this the biggest jump on the run.... So after 3 or 4 big jumps we come to the plank, and fish again asks... is this the biggest jump on the run... we all walk the plank and then come to Omega which was currently the biggest safe jump on the run. Me and Fish span the gap and then at the bottom fish says.... was that the biggest jump on the run?....

Finally me and Dave are like yea that was the biggest jump on the run, and luckily just below is "park yer butt", daves favorite spot to sit and enjoy the view. Park yer butt is a nice little snow ledge you can sit on that goes right to the lip of a 10 foot slide falls. At the bottom is a pool,  a pool we thought was only like waste deep.

So me and dave are chillin sharin a beer when all of a sudden fish gets up and says check this out. He cruises up and around to the other side of the river which is a gorged wall thats like a 80-90% grade and from the top like 30 feet above the pool he yells... how deep do you think that pool is?

Me and dave are like dood... that is crazy... but the pool is only like waste deep ....

Then fish yells... do you think I will be able to stop......

Me and dave are like... dood that is crazy... you will have to land fully planted and arrested or your going in!!!

I figured he would come back down and then all of a sudden off the lip of this mount he goes down like 20 feet onto the slope creating a small avalanche that slides him and a good portion of the wall right into the pool below.....

Once in the pool fish totally goes under the water and then pops back up and swims to the side...... with frozen shrieks me and dave scramble to the banks where we tried to help fish climb out.

All I can say is that was not only the biggest drop I have seen on the circuit... I don't think anyone will ever come close to that one again... I know I won't!!!

So if your looking for dinner tonight and you wanna just eat it good....

Head up to the circuit because there is a special on frozen fish!!!

It is above both FITW and Franklins....

We have established 3 different quality hikes in this area.
1. The Circuit. - Start heading NE from the alpental exit parking your car at the snowed in turn to FITW. Your basically hiking into the headwaters of the s. fork.

2. The lower circuit - Start from the bridge where The Circuit ends. Head down stream bounding different boulders until you come to the freeway overpass just above FITW proper. - Nice Short fun hike.

3. FITW hike - Basically hike along the FITW run turning around at franklin falls.

ordered by quality

That sounds like class V snowshoeing.  Dayum.

Gonna get Fish a cape with a superhero insignia!