How was it? I'm heading to A-Basin tomorrow... just wanted a check on conditions. The website says the East Wall is open again- was it?
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How was it? I'm heading to A-Basin tomorrow... just wanted a check on conditions. The website says the East Wall is open again- was it?
Vail was so money till about 130-2. Then the heat came. Vail valley + low elevation = COOKED.
I'll at the basin tommorow. Look for a tall dude on Big daddies.
edit - well im a dick. You said summit county. Either way id say pray for some sun so we can rip the slurpee.
I'll be on my 188 Bros, red pants.
farmed pow all morn with the gf and loved it. latest i've ever skied a foot of fresh in vail. quite a stoke day.
even got to watch some numnuts launch off one of the cooked bands in sundown bowl and nearly head for a swim in the gene pool elimination finals.
fucker landed on his head off a 20, after scraping rocks on his entire take off, about 25 ft off a convex takeoff. no helmet. all i could think of was mammoth trollers, EJ, Coombs, Todd Greenwood, foxy, etc and how this has been a bad bit of luck this spring for a lot of huckers. glad this tool was alive.
DON'T HUCK SOUTH FACES FOOLS. jeesus.
nuff o that tripe tho. here's to a banner day with a ripper gf and skiing virgin pow in the trees together all morn. wishing you and yours the same.
GFP and I will be working patrol at the basin tomorrow, come make some turns with us. :) I'll be on teledaddies and GFP on havoc's, both with freerides.
Lloyd, heard from peeps that the basin skied very well today. East wall opened a bit late (not sure about the upper hike-to stuff, forgot to ask), and the snow stayed good up there (they were socked in pretty much all day.)
100% agree with Z. Vail was a kick in the pants today. So much snow, by the time it was cooked, my legs were cooked anyway :)
Good stuff for my last vail day.
I concur ,Vail was a fun today.
wow, sounds like there were quite a few of us at vail, if the vis was better up top, maybe we would have seen each other.
I was at Keystone all day - had 11 "disadvantaged, minority" kids from Denver that I taught how to ski. Blue jeans, sweat pants, no gloves or goggles, never seen a chairlift or gondola before. It was pretty fun to show them the ropes actually and I hope some of them will find a way back.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lloyd Christmas
I managed to get one grownup run in there, which was surprisingly deep, like boottop. Then headed over to Loveland Pass til near dark. It was boot to knee deep - really sweet. Also saw tracks in Marjory Bowl, including a skin track that went up the north ridge and then slide debris down the side, so I figure a skier made that go.
And yes, the east wall had tracks all over it.
Vail was the shizzle on Friday for sure. Was riding with BZ, and saw Jibco there in the afternoon. Got there around 8:30 and stomped it until 2 or so and then I was toast. Too bad I didn't meet Jib earlier when I still had some energy...(Nice to meet you dude)
I tried to go today.....then all moral was shot when I got a speeding ticket heading out of boulder.....turned around and came home...
East Wall was nice... I guess they opened it yesterday at 2:00, so there weren't many tracks on it. Lots of fresh snow, that actually didn't thicken up until 1:00 or so. Much better day at the Basin than I was expecting.
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Originally Posted by Lloyd Christmas
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Nice to meet you too.Quote:
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Friday was so nice in the morning. No lift lines = $$
I just got back from the slush-fest at copper. It was super warm there and still very fun.
Hope you guys all got some.
It was warm enough today to even cook a lot of Loveland.Saw Powderpig & team Telechuck as well.
:Seconded. We were a few of the first to make the hike up and got virgin tracks cutting over into/around 2nd notch. Sweet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lloyd Christmas
Z, Blurred, Dside - sorry I never found you fools...we lapped Pali most of the day aside from a quick hike up EW and then left around 1:30. Next weekend.
Also, agreed with all above...Vail was rad yesterday. :D
I think I may have seen Blurred and his crew fly by me on the lower east wall between some of the cliffs. I saw the white full-face helmet, so I figured it was the masked man. My friend and I were jumping off some of the smaller stuff, but it was pretty fun up there anyways.
Sounds like I missed you at Loveland today, freshie. Nice to meet you this morning, adam. I switched over to the board after a couple runs down 8. The snow over there and on the ridge was realllll nice.
http://www.mediarite.com/powboard/Loveland04082006.jpg
Who was there with the green Bro's?
I did a solo trip up Mount Sherman this morning (south facing slopes). That area did not receive much if any snow from this recent storm. Snow conditions were interesting, some decent wind loaded powder in some spots, but wind slab/sun crust was encountered for the vast majority of the day. A good day out nonetheless, didn't see anyone else the whole way up, I love that.
Still another few weeks before the upper elevation south aspects corn up in that area.
That was me. Was there with the Ms. and PowderPig. I threw on the teles for one run to do the 3 pin grin. Boy oh boy did I suck, having not done it for four months.Quote:
Originally Posted by jibij
More later on this, but the 179 stiff Bros ruled, absolutely ruled.
Met Adam and did a few runs with him. Was cool to pick his brain on the stashes at Loveland as I rarely ski there (will change after today).
We skied until 3:30 and it was warm, but there were still fresh shots on the ridge.