made the opening day at kirkwood today.
here we are hanging out at the top of five
http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/a...1&d=1353123216
and hitting the groomer on the down
http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/a...1&d=1353123216
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made the opening day at kirkwood today.
here we are hanging out at the top of five
http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/a...1&d=1353123216
and hitting the groomer on the down
http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/a...1&d=1353123216
THIS deserves to be emphasized! Cheers be safeQuote:
Originally Posted by Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Skied the Heav today. Skiing was meh, but I did enjoy the closed areas until I was pulled over by ski patrol and given a tongue lashing, which would have been OK if the SP were female...
Also went to the ski swap at MontBleu looking for gear for my bud. Waste of time and effort IMO.
they are serious at the heave. this guy was guarding the boundaries yesterday
http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/a...1&d=1353134677
Had a great opening day! Good coverage on the WROD, and decent thin coverage off it, too. Employees I talked to seemed pretty positive about Vail. Also, it sounds like 6 will open as soon as there's enough snow for it. (or cold weather to make snow)
Now with more truthiness ;)
Rolled into KW this morning a bit before 9, and chair 6 was spinning (!). Then I saw Coop riding up to shoot some video or somesuch. Us regular folk were not allowed on 6, only 5 for us. It was cold and miserable. Maybe Vail does suck. I see why people hate this place.
And the true -
6 was closed - nobody was riding it. (middle Zach is quite peppery)
Coop rode 5 with the rest of us.
Everybody, employees and customers, was psyched about opening day.
There was 4-6 inches of pow-like substance on top of a base everywhere the groomer hadn't been. Some had wafer-thin crust. It was fun.
Snowed lightly off and on all day, fairly wet snow.
The drain still has a creek in it. (I checked)
Only Racecourse has enough snow to handle much skier traffic.
This is way better than last year. A big dump and it will be like two years ago :)
I also watched a first-time beginner learn to ski. In the morning, he was super shaky. I wondered who the jerk was who talked him into riding up / skiing down Chair 5. By the afternoon, he was linking pizzas in the fall line - on tele skis (!). Very impressive. At that rate of learning, and some alpine bindings, I expect we see him in the chair 6 line up soon.
Because he can, why do you give a shit?Quote:
Originally Posted by gimpy
Nice vid fluid styley, great stoke!
You should probably hang around some before you start posting.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheOriginalGraniteChief
Yep...first TR of the year including that yuppie gimpy. ;)
http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/s...d.php?t=254030
http://tr.slaythegnar.com/KW_11_11_12_06.jpg
Well, he's The Original Granite Chief, right? So he's presumably omniscient, or at least, he's been here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steven S. Dallas
Although, it seems that a plaintext environment in which people who know each other in real life interact can confuse even one such as he.
I've been around longer than you been on earth buddy. It's not like TGR is the center of the universe. Well maybe for you it is. But I was launching shit in tahoe when two skis barely made the width of one of Todays shapes, fucking gaper.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steven S. Dallas
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^so you're old. here's a medal.
the point being made was that gimpy was making a funny and everyone here knew it except you.
Good call, Joe Sbragia, you know all about me, including my age and gape level. Hey, is this 508 phone number you posted in the jobs forum a land line or a mobile?Quote:
Originally Posted by TheOriginalGraniteChief
Everyone including me.Quote:
Originally Posted by powdork
Wait, what? Gimpy I a yuppie? Fuck. I knew it. I knew it all along.
Yay snow. Dumping here on the coast
nah brah I'm calling on my 1200 baud modem into the Teton Gravity BBS running CELERiTY circa 1992Quote:
Originally Posted by Steven S. Dallas
[QUOTE= TheOriginalGraniteChief
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Old guy has learned to use a smartphone.
I'm as cranky and befuddled as most geezers, but ...... holy shit, colostomy bag man!Quote:
Originally Posted by TheOriginalGraniteChief
I'm often just trying to encite a riot out of lack of any snow to occupy my interest. Seems I did my job, the number posted is a mobile feel free to call it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steven S. Dallas
I also see people bashing here so much, I sometime feel the need to defend the other wise not guilty party, who, except for the attempt to transfer their stoke, did nothing wrong, and then they get run over by critical nay sayers. Thought that was one of those situations. I'm man enough to admit when I've been a DICKHEAD. Sorry I got in the middle of an inside joke. My bad. I am just as guilty as many here obviously in this case and in the future, I'm sure.
And yes, I'm old, grew up in the basin, learned to ski at Sierra ski ranch (SIERRA AT TAHOE) 43 years ago and picked all of the kirk clean like a dental assistant for years. So maybe I stuck my snoller blade in my Arse....... again, but hey that's me. Big mouth and enough experience to back it up........most of the time.
I'M JEALOUS NOT TO BE IN THE SIERRA'S
Stuck in the least coast.
Jong gone for now
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Current snow line is around 8000' near Rose. Rain below that. Should give the area the slathering it needs.
It's threads like this that make Epic Ski a lot of fun to read.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheOriginalGraniteChief
just got back from the wood. Things are getting plastered nicely there. Did a lap at Danberg yesterday that was as crusty and crunchy as they come. today the same lap was creamy goodness, although i was completely soaked at the end.
6 was running, not loading. not going to today. Tomorrow?
Powdork what do you estimate the snow level was out there, the snowtel sensors have not been to encouraging.
when i left there was snow falling hard at the base, though it was obviously above freezing. it was also snowing hard at carson pass. at the top of danberg there was an inch+ or so of snow on the road, considerably more on top of the snowpack. Overall it was fluctuation bewteen 7800 and 8200
whats up with the heave today?? looks like they have nothing running.
I skied the Heave today, light rain at the lake and a blizzard on top, I left at noon because they where getting ready to shut it down because of wind, but it was fun while it lasted, 2-3" of fresh.
Proably something to do with the fact that ITS RAININGQuote:
Originally Posted by powdork
Looks like snow level is around 8,000 feet (Sorta)
I am starting to wonder if this is going to turn into another November flood like back in 2006?
Mercury is supposed to drop tonight, so tommorrow should be $weet. I woudn't be surprised to see some wind hold at the Heave again tomorrow. Forecasting gusts up to 90 mph on ridges.
Recent response from Coop on Facebook, about 45 minutes ago:
"We are looking at all options for more terrain. Fro tomorrow we will open Solitude Chair 5. Next on the list is The Reut & Snowkirk. We now need temps to drop so we can subsidize the Ma~Natural with snow making to fill in the blanks... Perfect base building tonight.. We'll keep looking day to day."
So if you were hoping 6'd go tomorrow... looks unlikely.
However, good to know Coop will be rocking "Fro tomorrow" I am sick of that long hippy hair.
I also like how "mother nature's natural (tm)" is now just "Ma-Natural." Come on, Coop, pick a catchprase and stick with it.
Stay thirsty my bro-bros,
SSD
This all sounds like very good news. Above freezing, but snowing, at the base means thins are getting slathered. Keep it coming. Just hope now that the last 6" fall a cold snow. Then things will be good to go.
I stated earlier that I got hit by Ski Patrol at Heavenly for skiing closed terrain. Today my buddy got stopped and given a yellow card for doing the same. WTF, the closed stuff is the only terrain worth skiing. We did this all last year without incident. Can't wait for enough snow to exit the gates.
Be careful out there. By this I mean watch out for those enforcing the rules of papa Vail.
Sierra Avalanche Report is on Facebook for Mt Rose area.
Bottom line is (STAY OUT) Sunday will not be the day to go get some up there
^^^ ?? link?
what are these yellow cards? two and you get a red?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bosco
http://www.sierraavalanchecenter.org...edium=facebookQuote:
Originally Posted by powdork
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=gutLV52IMbM
So it will stack ontop of that all day and all night. Waddya think?
So, you duck ropes and get called on it? So odd a company that is trying to avoid injury and lawsuits would do such a thing. I mean, when I walk into a Home Depot, and they put up those "safety" gates to "keep me out of an area" and I jump over them, because I really need a female quarter turn, why I'd never expect for them to tell me to GTFO. What is it these days with private companies enforcing their rules. I bet it is Obama and the mommy state.
Don't know.... yet.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Irishpandah
also from the link though
of course, there is going to be a lot of new snow overnight on top of that layer if it stays reactiveQuote:
Shooting cracks, cracking and collapsing were common but no avalanches were observed or could be initiated by ski cuts.
Was outside a few minutes ago here in Sac, and the wind just turned that kind of cold that makes me think Tahoe's gonna get it good tonight. Wish I could get up there this week, stupid classes and stupid Thanksgiving...