Anyone heading up? So far it's me, Skidawg and Sobchak
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Anyone heading up? So far it's me, Skidawg and Sobchak
I'll be at Alpine.
Hey Nate...were you at Alpine today?
Don't hurry up there...it is gonna be one icy mother in the a.m.
As a newbie, maybe mabye tahoe Jong, where should i ski on sun/next week (as in SUnd) ps, this is my newbie post, i can rip kinda, almost worthy of this site. KW is sick i'm told, same with KW. WHere should I go, Boreal was rained out and gay on friday. For give me for my jongnesss......
What you should do, is cross-country around the lake six times, then display more JONGness by attempting to engage Chuck Norris in a fistfight.Quote:
Originally Posted by shrimp1
Chuck Norris kicks ass I'm told, same with Chuck Norris
Quote:
Originally Posted by PulverSchwein
That's true, but you know who is really a bad ass?
Chuck Norris.
I was gonna go, but my hangover had other ideas.
Nope, went today. Firm in the morning softening into the best turns so far this season. Took a couple turns with 3pin and his lady.Quote:
Originally Posted by irul&ublo
The morning was a gaper convention with about 69 million cars jockeying for what little parking spaces left after the condo scourge had plagued the once-quiet Kirkweed Meadows.
The resort had a glazed ice look. Kirkweed reminded me of a porn starlet who had just gotten a bukkake treatment from above, followed by a liquid nitrogen bath.
Expectations were not running high as me and Sobchak took an Oly lap and wished we had our racefag sticks and racefag lycra instead of our powderfag boards. It was firm, fast and fun.
We caught up the Skimoore father and son ski team, and head out to the untouched chalky/windpacked funnel, where skimoore hucks his meat and ditches his daddy. The rest of Wagon Wheel bowl was dust on an extreme foot massage. Skidawg ditches Ms Skidawg and joins our little crew.
The top of Wall off the ridge had some fun shit, with steep chalky windpacked pow that sandblasted half your face off as you looked down from the top. The 5-6 turns you could milk made you feel like Scot Schmidt skiing the Poubelle's *uhhhh...uhhh* STEEP!
The next spot to be hit was the lose-the-gaper traverse into LC which had some creamy goodness that no one else but us ripped the shit out of. Hucks and straightlines into the Cirque flats kept us entertained for multiple laps.
The backside had a gaperific line at the chair comprised of idiots that can't count to 4, idiots that lost skis, and idiots that fell off chairs at the loading zone, which made the longest slowest chair ride in the Sierras even longer and slower.
Thunder Saddle was scoured hardpack. The reward for tapping this line was an entry into Hells, which had the best snow on the mountain - creamy buttery smooth pow that had been untouched, like a kid who'd never been to Neverland Ranch. Pretty soon we were doing figure 8 laps between Wall/LC and Thunder/Hells.
With open access boundaries, a West Shore excursion was briefly contemplated until we saw that the Backside OB area looked like a glazed donut. That didn't stop Sobchak from a solo mission to 4th of July Peak/B-day chute, while Skidawg, Skimoore and myself opted to stay inbounds rather than pick off kidneys and other internal organs from WS chute rockbands Tyrone-style.
Getting to Palisades via the middle traverse was easy thanks to the rain/ice crust that formed a few days ago. Open access to a couple of inches of pow over ice, avie debris and death cookies, but it was all good.
Sentinel bowl turned on for an hour in the afternoon as the sun turned it into almost-corn that was ideal for high-speed maching. Stayed here, for a bit another Wall-LC-Backside circuit then it was the end of the day.
It was better than I thought. Looks like our annual January meltdown was a month late. Expect spring skiing in the upcoming week or so.
(Edit: PSA to Gay Area SUV drivers: If you're gonna drive like a NASCAR hick on a curve and roll over on hwy88, please have the FUCKING CONSIDERATION to roll over by the side of the road instead of the middle of the road, so that other drivers can get by. Thank You)
Nice write-up Su Pu....hopefully that "chalk" you mentioned will be around on Sat as well....my father-in-law will be joining me and wants to hit Upper Cham before he leaves ;)
SuPu, you sure have a way with words, although the pedophilia references are starting to disturb me...
definitely turned out to be a better day than expected...dust on crust can be fun! that is, until you hit a death cookie at mach 10 blowing one ski completely off so you have to balance on the boot. and hell, it was great to ski with Turbo again, it'd been far too long.
I brought my camera, but it really wasn't all that picture worthy, especially knowing 666 would come back from cham and take all the glory away with his TR.
"I swear honey, I wasn't trying to kill your dad."Quote:
Originally Posted by skier666
Great write-up as always SuPu!
Great TR Pu. Well said. Conditions were good Sunday and lower Cirque and just OB of Pali delivering the best.
Monday conditions were much worse. Nothing like dried up ice over sheets of ice to make for poor conditions. Much time today was spend on g/f duties and trying ride the wall in the park off 5 and figure out rainbow rails again. :cussing:
Sore hip and all, it's back to the 'wood tomorrow. Dry pavement has helped the "white knuckle contingent" getting to the hill.