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I'm there, that is freaking amazing! Love that photo - new wallpaper.
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Originally Posted by Skier10322
why would gunder want to shoot that when he could shoot me and bakerboy making warren miller turns and my screaming jackson off the chair 1 ramp?
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Originally Posted by White Chocolate
it's the eternal question that plagues us all.
Fiddler is going to have to get some packing gear if he's going boot packing again. Myself, I had a great time on some increadable early season pow. DINMS went to bed by 8:00. Guess I was pretty tired too. Can't wait till next time.
Let's have a look at the assumptions here: Either I am one of your usual pack or I am a newbie? And it is true of all newbies that they don't know what they are talking about?Quote:
Originally Posted by mtbakerskier
I'll take choice "C", thank you!!
Anyway, it was a great day. We found the deposit lines on the back of Table, and in the lower Table hourglasses!
so your saying widow maker is not north facing, gets a lot of sun, and you know what you are talking about?
i have no idea, it just seems that was the contention.
We joined the herds on the nw side of Table, and skied 6 or 7 runs in knee deep pow. Nice skin track was set, lots of folks out there. By the end of the day the slope was trashed. I had a most excellent time. :)
What we are calling "Stoneman" used to be called the "Widow Maker". I was not aware that something else was now being called the Widow Maker. So when Grant suggested that we ski the Widowmaker and Stoneman on the same day, I assumed that he was yanking my chain a bit to test me. I responded in kind. Anyways, nobody is skiing Stoneman or whatever you call the Widowmaker without more snow. Grant knows that, I know that Grant knows that, so the whole thing about "The Stoneman and the Widowmaker" was a farce, and I treated it as such.
In fact, isn't ALL Internet chest thumping of this sort a farce, and to taken with more of a smile than a snarl? :cool:
yes. all chest thumping except mine that is.Quote:
Originally Posted by BakerBunny
don't you ever fucking laugh at meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
No kidding, he'll send those things in his avatar in to your dreams. Scary. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by basom
How true. By the way, I woke up today and felt great, no sore muscles. What a pleasant surprise.Quote:
Originally Posted by weski
I know the answer to the Bakerbunny secret. Grant, before you make a fool of yourself, just know he's way more "local" than you or I could ever be. Think shorter, older, AT kinda guy.
And I hate you all for skiing yesterday. At least Puget Sound wasn't as gnarly yesterday as it is today. Yesterday=bluebird, relatively flat, little wind (and no whales)
Today=40+kts, beaufort 5+, stay at home type of day.
As I understand it, widow maker is near stone man, but is not actually stone man but the rather cliffish face lower and to the SE of stone man. I saw tracks down widow maker one time last year. It was one of those holy shit lines.Quote:
Originally Posted by BakerBunny
Moot point to me, though, as I am but a gapish gaper and can but dream of ballsing down either.
OK, Hop is onto it. I fess up. I'm me!
Every year about this time I make the futile effort to go to where the young'uns hang out to connect, do a little smack talk, get silly. Seems I always fux it up and get feathers fluffed. Ya oughta see the kind of flaming I used to get on RSA!!
A little history of Widowmaker/Stoneman. My daddy used to run the lodge, so I used to hang out in the tap room after hours. This was about 1949, back when they had overnight guest lodging at Baker. One night, after dark, two well known locals came in grinning, smelling like sweat, covered with snow. Carrying ropes. They yelled for beer!!
One was Jed Davis, pro-patrol from Vancouver. They called him "squeeky" Davis because he had gotten his larynx shot during the war and just kind squeekey when he talked. Nobody said anything about it because he was 6' 4" and not of a pleasant disposition.
Folks gathered around and asked, "What the Hell yhou guys been up to?". Squeeky just grinned, downed his beer in one gulp, wiped his mouth with his sleeve and said "Widow Maker!". There ensued a period of backslapping and yelling before I could ask. "What is the Widow Maker". Jed pointed toward the west wall of the taproom and said, "Go outside in the morning and look West. Those are our tracks."
In the morning I did just that. I am not sure I had even looked at it before, but there it was. Impossible, unrealistic, but it had tracks in it. We now call What I saw tracks in "The Stoneman", but if Squeeky Davis wants to call it "The Widow Maker", I am sure as hell not going to be the one to correct him!
i was soooo hoping you were gonna say some dudes way back when skied what we now call widowmaker.
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic19242.jpg
that face looks super sick. i wanted to go up there this weekend but couldnt make it. i heard that baker mite open this weekend?? does anyone have ne more info? thanks
Not a chance...Quote:
Originally Posted by skibum193
They are looking at the 16th, if ...
1) The snow continues to collect.
2) They can get their diesel fuel in. Baker has a bit of a problem. Diesel that doesn't gel in the cold is not available until Nov 1. They can save about $10,000 if they don't have to get their fuel on a special order, so they wait until Nov 1 and hope.
Ah, I got it figured out now, tim, is it isnt it????? LOL Well welcome to the board, we got to give all new posters some shit everynow and then.Quote:
Originally Posted by hop
Opening on a Tuesday? Either Grrrr jr or his teacher will be upset...
Hey, I smoke way too much for that hiking shit. Honestly...does anyone think I sound very athletic? I'm not. I was fucking surprised that I didn't fucking pass out on the hike out.Quote:
Originally Posted by weski
It's all good though, I made some good turns. I think I hit one other track too...That snow was damn good feeling under my skis too.