DTM was there??Quote:
Originally Posted by MacDaddy
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DTM was there??Quote:
Originally Posted by MacDaddy
Fucking sick. They opened something over towards road to provo (i don't know any names) at about 11:30, after everyone else had gone home. At least 4 untracked runs over there. Face shot, after face shot after face shot. Sick. It was somewhere past the clff area rope-line.
I wish I was there. I tried to leave school to ski at around noon, but when I got home to get my gear my mom was there. I had to go back to school and sit in class doing nothing because the teacher wasn't even there. :cussing:
Not a bad way to spend a May afternoon. Stump's sandy-vaginitis has apparently spread, cause my day was so-so too.
Certainly not complaining, definitely some great conditions today, just skied like a putz.
Nice to meet MacDaddy and remeet the Tresckows. Saw Mr. AG in line, but my desire to make some turns precluded waiting for the next tram...I'm sure he understands.
Tomorrow? Perhaps.
No, he meant me. We lent the Daddy Mack AG's 106's, I think he liked them. :biggrin:Quote:
Originally Posted by Xover
Bag, I would have done the same. NEVER wait on a day like today, you never know when the sun is going to pop and kill all that freshness.
Stump: deposit sand, buy bike, buy body armour, give somebody the finger (as hard as you can). That should do it. :)
Totally depended on where you went today. I had a couple of top ten runs of the year on upper Silver Fox right out of the gate and on No. Baldy.
In line at 8:35 and got the 9:02 bucket. A few lucky souls (about 125) got a pre-opening tram for the first tram of the day. Actually, if you want to get technical, I did see a work bucket go up right before the pre-opening one but it didn't look like more than a dozen people on it. That was all OK because LC wasn't running yet so only that first group of riders had tracked up the top.
Popped thru the upper gate, sailed past Macaroni and dropped in for the most continuous face shots I've had for weeks. And I was even wearing my Daddioes. It was amazing. The top 1000 vert of SF and Baldy were light and super deep. The middle 1000 verts skied normal to stiff. The bottom 1000 verts were hideous. Probably about the wettest, gloppiest, most ACL-endangering snow I've skied this season. I avoided any off-piste skiing below 9000 feet after that.
I had to bow out and do a little work for a few minutes at 11:30 so I missed the actual LC gate opener. GT and Flyk told me about it after they plundered as much as they wanted. Thanks for the heads up guys. I had 4 unreal pow runs in one of my usual spots there.
The patrol opening LC was classic! Everyone I had talked to on the tram or chairs had said there was no way LC would be open today. First thing one of the trollers had told me in the bullpen this morning was that LC bowl was a priority to open even if they didn't get LC chair going. So I just smiled whenever anyone said they were leaving early because everything was getting skied out. What was really cool is that they left RTP closed up top so it looked to many peeps like LC was still closed. They made a mid-entry gate into upper Old Lady, traversing across Shireen, like they used to do for summer skiing when RTP got too rocky. The displaced entry gate, people leaving early, and no viz, kept the whole bowl hidden to the masses. Only the lucky few who figured it out got the goods. Fat Yeti and I were still getting FACE SHOTS after 2PM! It was stellar.
Not only did the bird quickly make the decision to go ahead and run LC chair, but they also fired up Perv to dissipate some of the crowd. I really like the new, flexible, responsive, agile, whatever you want to call it attitude of the bird.
This goes down as the second best May pow day I've ever had. The only one better for me was the 31" in 24 hours that we had in May of '99.
It was great seeing everyone up there today! :D :D :D
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Originally Posted by Endlessseason
Yeah. Good to hear he made it out.
Hey, those are my skis... (and they're 106s) Mr.AG was just the one loaning them out. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by MacDaddy
But seriously - glad you had fun on them! :D
We got up to the bird at about 1130 and headed straight for little cloud when we heard it was open. Almost headed back to the tram but thought we would give RTP a try and once we made it through the pea soup traverse it was wonderful. Full on face shots and untracked light may pow. We were the 2nd group in when they dropped the far rope and again had untracked dense freshies, perfect for big fast turns. We spent all afternoon lapping little cloud and it was great. Hard to believe how much snow is still up there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Endlessseason
edit: I just want to reiterate my love for the spatulas.
Oh, and by the way, when I said everyone I talked to didn't think LC would open, I'm not talking about any maggots I spoke with. None of the maggs I rode with offered any opinion one way or another. They just skied. Like maggots do. :D
Good skiing with you again GT, Flyk, Trescow, Kristin, Fat Yeti, and almost Lumpy...
Well, after he ditched boo boo kitty when he was the last person for first tram I'm sure he undertands :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by bagtagley
The first several runs of the day were good, but lots of work. We got some untracked, but not very much. Then they opened the RTP lower gate and it was AMAZING!!! Top to bottom untracked, and no lift line at LC chair. Everybody had left. The runs were fast and smooth. I love my Spatulas too. They just make it a lot less work. We had lots of face shots into the afternoon. I'm sure I'll have dreams about todays skiing, tonight.
I wish it would snow all year around, up there.
you fucking bastards!!!
im about to explode and sell all my school books.....not really, but FUCK
glad you all had a good day
I was there!
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Originally Posted by MacDaddy
Ms Treskow killed it!!
Dude, that's MRS. Tresckow to you. Btw good skiing with you all, and we will be at it again tomorrow.
Bell to bell today for us, which is saying alot about either our addiction to skiing, or the conditions for today.
I took a big digger off some cliffs in the Gad chutes, over the rocks, airborne and weightless, then tomahawking over another cliff band, and off again, more weightlessness, then full on McGoverning down the remainder. If anyone is wondering about the cliffs lookers left of the top of Gadzoom, let me say the snow is real solid in the LZ.
Made for easy postholing up to my skis though
I seldom ski LCC and maybe that’s a good thing, blinded by low viz and totally disorientated I skied off a traverse into the air hoping no to die. Very retarded
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Great day though
Better to ski off the traverse than to ski into one with full afterburners and simply explode on impact.
Yes, that's happened to me a few times @ Snowbird when I was a wee rookie. :tdo13:
I'd have to say that keeping the top of little cloud closed with a open gate say 50' below made for one very good day. :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin: