Ski trip to Copper Creek cabin near Mt. Rainier

March 2003

This was our second group trip to the great ski-in Copper Creek Hut that is owned by the volunteer Mount Tahoma Trails Association. At $5/person for two nights stay, including the whole cabin, propane lights and stove, wood for the toasty fireplace, and some comfy couches, it's an excellent deal. Each year, we have gone to the annual fundraiser to put our names in the raffle for getting good in-demand weekend nights, which we got again this year. We took all 12 spots, and had the place to ourselves!

 

Evel (a.k.a. TimS) hot-dogging on his telemarking skis up in the air over an impromptu ski jump

 

Frosty (Josh) resting after a long jump down into a snowdrift ledge, Evel (TimS) and Slack (Kari) resting after exploring the area for downhill telemark slopes, and Mary Jane (Karen) and D6 (Ken) bringing their sleds back up hill after a speedy spin to the bottom

 

Snow-covered fence near the cabin

 

Bird feeder near the cabin, looking through bright, moody clouds to the northwest

 

Uncle Bunky (TimH), Worm (Beth), Snaps (Julie), and D6 (Ken) making a scrumptious morning meal of hearty mix-in pancakes, bacon, and hash browns. The meals were all yummy, including the special dinners orchestrated by Martha (Garwood).

 

There was a certain "process" to getting drinking water at the cabin: grab some 5 gallon buckets, put on your coat and boots, go outside, shovel snow into the buckets, bring the buckets inside and set them by the wood stove, shovel snow from the buckets into pots on top of the wood stove to melt the snow, move the melt water to the gravity water filter, and eventually get a trickle of water out the other end!