2019/2020 Midwest Stoke Thread

[Harry]

2019/2020 Midwest Stoke Thread

Christie Mountain has been down for power outages, so I spent Christmas Eve at Trollhaugen. -5F when I got there, +5F when I left. Place was deserted. Roads sketchy, Blizzaks FTW.








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[uglymoney]

Nice Harry!

Axe good Elan and Welch TR.

Askel...great trip report. I've been to the Porkies and overnighted in a tent up on the backside of the hill. It was a blast. But that cabin looks awesome.

I had to work Thursday and Friday down here. Friday was cold af and I was the only one who had to run here because the local operations shut down. Somehow things made it across I80 from Omaha where they were a day behind a bit out of the heart of the storm. Reminded me a bit of 1997 when I had to take care of west central Minnesota during the worst winter in memory, but frankly, conditions never quite deteriorated that far because we didn't have a good base of snow to really let the new snow fly in the wind. Still fun. Something about that weather turns my crank and makes me feel alive and happy. So discouraging that the 7 day turns warm and raining...wtf...I hate these hot to cold to hot to cold extremes shit fuck what snow we have. Make up your mind already, but I know that winter is winter ship sailed a couple three decades ago.

Xmas with family today. Stepson is home from Gunnison and he has an awesome gift coming since his grades at Western were damned good last semester. Presumably skiing on the new gear tmmrw at the Nut.

[Harry]

Xmas with family today. Stepson is home from Gunnison and he has an awesome gift coming since his grades at Western were damned good last semester.

JH maggot Telee’s wife is a professor there. She is cool, I have fly fished with them multiple times. She is a better fisherman than most of us maggots. Great on the oars too. They split their time between homes in Jackson and Gunnison. No idea what she teaches, but your son should introduce himself.


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[uglymoney]

JH maggot Telee’s wife is a professor there. She is cool, I have fly fished with them multiple times. She is a better fisherman than most of us maggots. Great on the oars too. They split their time between homes in Jackson and Gunnison. No idea what she teaches, but your son should introduce himself.


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Yes!

Tele was actually quick to offer a helping hand if my (stepson) needed something in another thread (Blister)...when I first sprayed/humble bragged about my stepson living in Gunny. He's has a lot going on trying to figure things out there, but yes...that would be cool. My lifelong friend who is from here also lives in Salida just over the pass so we are pretty well covered if he needs something.

Just happy things are working out for him so far. He's a fish out of water back here now. Just like us.

[Harry]

Hey UP maggots,

I may be in Ironwood tomorrow. Anybody not working and want to go skiing ?


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[Phall]

Kinda odd though, other than some tracks from snowmobiblers out joyriding, there was nothing going on there. No prep going on at all for the upcoming season. They have two weeks I guess, but I'm kind of worried about how this new management is going to work out. Especially since they probably could have opened this weekend.

I’ve heard through the grapevine they have parts for a groomer but no one that knows how to fix it, no lift mechanic, and haven’t hired concessions folks yet. (All speculation of course).



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[Harry]

Got a text from SkiJ about Ironwood area skiing. Thanks!

Ended up at Big Powderhorn. Snow conditions were excellent. Lots of people, but lots of lifts and runs all over the place so never a problem skiing.








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[uglymoney]

Couple inches at the Nut yesterday. Dusty on crusty good clean fun following the kids down the hill. Nobody home early. We skied onto every chair before lunch and I had 10k before my first beer.

Rain and warm for the next weekend sadly.

[Harry]

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That is f-ing gorgeous.


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[Harry]

2019/2020 Midwest Stoke Thread

More stoke from Big Powderhorn

UP skiing rules !




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[Askel]

That looks pretty sweet. We got a fair bit of snow (and rain....) this week, but was heavy as fuck with the temps hanging in the 30's. I broke the ol' collarbone on Thursday when closing up shop, so I'll be hanging at the bar for the foreseeable future when I have to chauffer the kids to the hill. Plenty of time to be back at it before our spring break trip though. Hopefully I don't get to fat for the snowpants by then...

Oof, heel up man!

Askel...great trip report. I've been to the Porkies and overnighted in a tent up on the backside of the hill. It was a blast. But that cabin looks awesome.

Porkies does have the best ski in/ski out lodging anywhere in the midwest!

Hey UP maggots,

I may be in Ironwood tomorrow. Anybody not working and want to go skiing ?

Should have gone that direction, west/south has been getting dumped on pretty good and we had a gross rain crust up here.

I’ve heard through the grapevine they have parts for a groomer but no one that knows how to fix it, no lift mechanic, and haven’t hired concessions folks yet. (All speculation of course).

I've been hearing similar. Though I feel kinda bad for the folks taking over. They could do a solid mediocre job (the best you can maybe hope for a new crew running a hill on a shoestring), but they'll never live up what the Gogebic crew running the hill these past few years could do. Will certainly miss them.

[Askel]

Yeah, so about that gross rain crust....

Been cooped up at home too long blowing snow, skiing around the backyard, and working on house projects. Had to get out and make some miles. Had some commitments later this afternoon so I decided to hit Mt. Baldy up near Boho's Voodoo Mountain. It's pretty much an out and back so you can basically ski until you hit half your allotted time, turn around and head back.

Probably should have brought skins, because the scales were having a hell of a time getting grip on the rain crust. But at least somebody blazed a pretty awesome skin track all the way up.



Almost to the summit....



...just about there....



...and made it before being time barred.



Boho in the distance.



The apres ski sucks here though.



Had to settle for tailgate beers.

[lake_effect]

Well between moving into and starting remodeling on a new (old) house and trying to hunt as much as possible with my 10 year old Lab before she can't, we finally made it out last week.

Had to drive around the north end of Lake Michigan and down to Petoskey for my father's wedding so we skied Boyne Highlands Thursday. First time skiing lower Michigan. Decent until the mist moved in around 1, then the fog, and you couldn't see more than 75 feet heading downhill. Cool to ski somewhere new but if I am going to drive 3-4 hours I'm going to Ironwood or the Porkies.

Plan was to run up to Brule yesterday but no one wanted to spend 2 hours in the truck there and back. Went to Paul Bunyan in Lakewood instead. 1 T-bar and 2 tow ropes, 125ish feet of vert, 3 runs, lots of stoke. Kids lapped the t-bar for 5 hours straight, mama and I could take a seat at the bottom and still be able to watch the kids ski, and it's only 45 minutes from home.

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[axebiker]

Got about a foot of snow here in the MSP area (!!!), and it's been wet heavy stuff, which should groom up REALLY NICE. This should make the season last a few extra weeks if the temps get a tad cooler, which they will be doing this weekend! We haven't hit our "snowy season" yet, and I think we're almost 3x where we typically are at this time of the year!

[ejj]

I skied a bit at Hyland on Wednesday and Thursday. Snow was great.