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Originally Posted by old goat
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Originally Posted by old goat
That dog photo is most excellent.
I'll probably be on the other side of the ridge, enjoying newly opened Summit. http://squawalpine.com/explore/blog/...uaw-and-alpineQuote:
Originally Posted by skier666
But I'll text you if I poke over to that side.
summit didnt open today... the evil E ravaged the upper mountain
I'll be around KW Sunday dropping off some wood. Lemme know if anyone is around for laps or valley tour.
Anyone going to be at Squawlpine this Tuesday / Wednesday or looking to tour on the northwest shore? If Monday night brings more than a few inches with really cold temps BC is preferred but kind of up for whatever.
Summit opened at Alpine today. Remarkably good coverage for first weekend of December. Fun windpacked chalk off piste on Peril Ridge, a little dicier in Deer Camp.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]194172 Still waiting for some snow near Tamarak. Limited terrain.
I thought Deer Camp and High Yellow Gully were quite bueno. Pray for snow.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Dad
Big ups to The Dad for that reason.
Well done.
6 was fun today. Fresh uncut mank in the usual fringe zone. I was the only one hitting the early season stash zone. Snow was variably heavy. 11 skied very nicely. Good to get out.
Is this code for something? Like you have a cougar you're paying a visit to?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ottime
Nope, it means he's spreading love oak death! :D ;) :P
Fun at SB with my older boy. He had some damp ski epiphanies, which was great.
Sounds like its time to have "the talk" with him.Quote:
Originally Posted by bodywhomper
Did he pee into a crosswind? [rimshot]Quote:
Originally Posted by bodywhomper
No, that was me!!!!
New squallywood chapter on Tram Face just dropped. Is it just me, or am I sensing an air of "fuck you KSL" with this move.
http://squallywood.com/tram-face/
^ I think you may be right, and I love it.
Any of you folks moving into ski leases need wood? I have a cord of dry lodgepole left for $200. No truck though so you have to come get it. I'll help load it though.
Pics from two weekends ago. If I wait any longer they're gonna be stale:
Did some skiing off Andersite ridge at Donner Pass on Monday. Dug a pit to find it was 30" of fresh snow on top of dirt.
http://i.imgur.com/6OLYmHw.jpg
Made some new friends with J & G at the top of the ridge -- a rad couple traveling from Alaska to Montana who were nice enough to let me ski down with them. Never was able to exchange emails to send this shot to them:
http://i.imgur.com/7lXTZQy.jpg
No dirty oak in my truck. My wood is clean.Quote:
Originally Posted by bodywhomper
Considering one of the lines is called "Keep Squaw True" I think that's a safe bet. Love how he called the far side "Lazy River." Heh.Quote:
Originally Posted by stanmarsh
I wasn't inclined to hike, having spent the past six weeks, and almost all of the last 12, at sea level.Quote:
Originally Posted by unpossible
But I can definitively say that skier's right of Yellow (lower) and Skadi Hill were awesome yesterday.
Thanks, mang.Quote:
Originally Posted by ~mikey b
aQuote:
Keep Squaw True begins from the highest ground. For anyone entering the valley, it will
forever stand for the importance of being true to yourself, true to the communities you live in,
and true to the lands around you. You might have inferred, it is the entire reason for this chapter.
http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...cf15d3022f.jpg
Sb side country on sat
I vaguely remember there had been a contest scheduled for Tram Face a few seasons ago. But it did not happen cos of weather/conditions
Did anyone make it out to Tamarack area this weekend? I'm looking at heading up that way tomorrow or wednesday.
I think it was going to go on Lemming Ridge--looker's right and around the corner from Tram Face proper, although they were hyping it as Tram Face. Moved to Silvy after Lemming Ridge slid while folks were up there inspecting it.Quote:
Originally Posted by TurxSki
Yep. Coverage is quite good. Some pretty decent skiing on north facing slopes. Plenty of tracks in hourglass. Have fun.Quote:
Originally Posted by snowsnowsnow
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Has anyone skied this line before?
Thats above Wolverine at AM^^^
It gets skied pretty regularly, but that entire face is more filled in by the time it's open to skiers. Even though it looks like a wall from a distance, towards the end of a good season almost all of the rocks are buried. It's two or three turns (or a quick straightline) before hitting the first of several dozen traverse tracks.
You almost had me tricked that VW USA helped you get a shiny new toy that I saw on facebook, but then I looked again and realized there is NFW you could justify that massive rig to S!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ottime
Could I go hit it before it fills in so its still couloir-ish? Or is that a big no no?Quote:
Originally Posted by mmmm...pow!
No dirty oak in my buddies truck. But a lot more wood than my taco would pull up the hill. We had another buddy with us. He is from Brasil and had never seen snow. He learned to snowboard hiking near 7800. Gonna get him up for a lift seven day before he heads home after the holidays.Quote:
Originally Posted by SchralphMacchio
In the new chapter Robb talks about the FWT event at Tram Face back in 2010. Big slide happened right before the event so they pulled the plug.
Lencon - that's pretty low tide Wolverine Bowl, even more so than it appears in the photo. I'll be up there tomorrow and will take a look.
Right now you'd have to duck a closure rope to ski it. After the storms later this week it might open and be narrow enough to satisfy you. The face is called "Idiot's Delight" or just "Idiot's", the individual lines must have names but I don't know them. When I've skied it it was just a steep face. If you go around the corner--on the more north facing aspect that drops into Beaver Bowl there's a short chute that is always a chute, once the rocks are covered. Better snow, less traverse tracks to deal with, sidehill to the right after the chute and upper bowl and link up with one of the Sisters chutes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lencon
Thats called the Dog leg. Have hit it many times! Chute to the (skiers) left of it is idiots proper.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lencon
My buddy Clynt hitting it at 1:48 in this video:
https://vimeo.com/155168704
It was too cold to take my phone out and take a picture, but it's plenty filled in right now. But the whole mountain is rock hard so it's going to need several inches of soft on top before you'd want to go near anything in the idiots area.
+1 to dog leg being a great run. When the snowfield above fills in you get some great turns before the straightline (elbow-line?)
Watch out for blue ice at the kink in low snow. The rocks get sun and it melts into the chute and refreezes