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The Sierra: Discovering the Backcountry The Sierra: Discovering the Backcountry Item Type Other Authors Soroka, Tova Download date 10/10/2021 13:20:19 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/1284 THE SIERRA: DISCOVERING THE BACKCOUNTRY Tova Soroka Spring 2012 Submitted in partial completion of the requirements for EXP 436: Senior Expedition “To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.” - Henri Bergson ABSTRACT In recent years I have rediscovered my own passion for skiing. After overcoming multi- ple injuries that have kept me out of the backcountry it is finally my time to explore. For the last few years of my life I have been watching the ski films of backcountry touring that have only inspired me more to get out there in the backcountry. All of this has motivated me to begin the process for my own expedition, which follows in this proposal. My expedition will be starting at the Mammoth Lakes Region and ending at Tioga Pass, California. This trip is not truly a Sierra Crest tour (~500 miles of the Sierra ridgeline traveling north-south) because it goes off of the crest and tours through the Ritter Range. This trip travels through the magnificent Minarets area and through part of Yosemite National Forest. My trip will establish 3-4 base camps set up approximately 10 miles apart from each other. From these areas we will be doing day tours for 2 or 3 days before traveling to a further camp along our path. The proposal includes the history of skiing in the Sierra Mountains that goes back to the days of postmen using skis to deliver mail throughout this mountain range. Because this is being planned as a self-sufficient ex- tended backcountry tour, I do not want to travel with more weight then necessary, and have decided to use the Freezer Bag Cooking style to help implement this. Finally since we are trav- eling in terrain that is avalanche prone I have increased and will continue to increase my ava- lanche training and understanding and practice of backcountry avalanche protocols for our ex- pedition. Topics covered in planning for this expedition include risk management plans, emer- gency contacts, Leave No Trace guidelines, leadership planning, and conditioning and training Plans. TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstract 3 Table of contents 4 Introduction 6 History 10 Natural History 14 Leave No Trace Guidelines 17 Senior expedition guidelines 20 Seasonal Weather & Conditions 26 Meal Planning 31 Conditioning & Preparation 33 Team, Leadership & Decision-Making 41 Expedition Itinerary 46 “Go/ No-Go Parameters” & Crux Points 52 Contigency Plans 56 Appendix A: Meal Plan 58 Appendix B: Individual Meal Breakdown 62 Appendix C: Budget 71 Appendix D: Risk Management Plan - Gear 75 Appendix E: Risk Management Plan - Travel & Weather 77 Appendix F: Risk Management Plan - Medical 80 Appendix G: Team Member - Rich Balzano 83 Appendix H: Emergency Contacts 86 Bibliography 88 EXP 435 5 INTRODUCTION “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” - T.S. Elliot When I first started planning my “Senior Expedition” I was planning to go to Japan and ski the deep “pow” offered by the snow gods of the Japanese Alps. I would then hook up with TGR and get in a ski video and ultimately become a professional skier. These are not bad dreams, but right now that’s just what they are - dreams. As I started to plan the logistics for that trip, I became aware that I needed to step back and plan something more within my own abilities and experiences. I realized that though I had some experience, being fully responsible for planning and executing a 10-day backcountry trip was a huge step beyond anything I had done. Skiing was easy by comparison. Essentially starting over, I felt lost; and didn’t know where to start. After discussing this feeling of being lost with my friends, I decided to discuss some possible ideas with my instructor, Casey Henley. After some discussion with him I found myself interested in The Sierra Mountains of California. This expedition is not something that will directly forward me in my professional career because at this point in my life I am not planning on pursing a career as a professional guide. Although that is not the plan right now this trip is independent and will require pre-professional levels of planning, leadership, and general responsibility for living and traveling in the back- country for an extended amount of time. These are important things to learn and understand and will benefit me in my future outdoor journeys. I realize this expedition might allow me to start to understand if this is the type of activ- ity that I want to focus my professional career on, but more importantly for now, this trip is about me. This is the jumping off point for my own personal and more challenging exploration into the winter backcountry. Though I have done small expeditions prior to this one in different disciplines, this trip will combine my outdoor living skills, avalanche skills, backcountry ski travel, and personal experience. This trip will allow me to test my abilities to travel and ski in a new area (The Sierra) and since this will be an expedition that I have put my time and money into, I am taking ownership, so to speak, to make it the best possible. After reading through tons of different books discussing the Sierra, avalanches, and ski history, I have concluded that this trip will be a personal exploration for me to discover what skiing, and especially backcoun- try skiing means to me. I grew up skiing at ski resorts most of my life, and traveling in the backcountry on skis is a relatively new activity for me. As a young child I skied, but my parents always had to give me a little push to get to the slopes on the weekends. The first time I went backcountry skiing I was 14 and after that experience I didn’t do it again until I was 18 years old. This is what I would really consider my first year in backcountry travel. I traveled to The Chic-Chocs Mountain Range in northern Canada to do day tours for a week in March 2009.I was traveling in avalanche terrain, skinning up mountains, and away from the hustle and bustle of my local mountain – Whiteface. This is also the place where I took a bad fall and torqued my knee only to find out 10 months later that I had severely torn my meniscus. The following year I moved to Utah and did a few day tours in the backcountry but because my knee was still recov- ering from surgery, I was not able to ski as much as I had hoped. This past year -2011- was the first year I got to spend a decent amount of time skiing in the backcountry. I did a fair amount of touring in The Adirondack Mountains before heading out EXP 435 7 west in May to do some backcountry touring in The Sister’s Region, of Oregon. I got to do some amazing travel in this area, but my trip was cut short due to another physical issue. But now that my knee is healed, and my issues from this past May have been fixed (I hope), I have moved to Utah to spend my winter touring throughout the backcountry and pre- paring for my trip to the Sierra Mountains in May of 2012.Although I am planning to spend a fair amount of time in the backcountry, I will also balance this with my time at the ski resorts to increase my general ski abilities. I want my Senior Expedition to be a time for me to discover the backcountry in an historic area, which will be new to me. This idea came to me when I was reading the book In Search of Powder: A Story of Amer- ica’s Disappearing Ski Bum by Jeremy Evans. In his study of the changing status of the ski bum, Evans discovers that skiers are ultimately always searching for what he calls “The Promised Land.” This elusive place used to exist, Evans argues, but is now lost to ski area development, the commercialization of mountains, and the shift to the industrialization of skiing. The passion for skiing which gave rise to the ski bum of the post World War II era has been replaced with a new age ski bum. The new age ski bum is surrounded by the newest, hottest gear along with their PBR in one hand and their ski porn in the other. That is not to say that these ski bums are better or worse than past ski bums; they have there likes and differences, but both, new or old, share a passion for the snow and the backcountry. Evan is trying to relate the idea that due to all of these new types of innovations, the ski bum, and backcountry explore has been lost. My hopes for my Senior Expedition are to discover those remote places that used to attract skiers from all over for the skiing. I want to discover what has been lost in these years of development and modernization. For me, ski areas do not offer the “Promised land” of deep powder, silent EXP 435 8 nights, and days alone, but by stepping out of bounds into the backcountry I will be able to re- connect with this idea.
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