Depth hoar is a bigger tool.Quote:
Originally Posted by sliced
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Depth hoar is a bigger tool.Quote:
Originally Posted by sliced
She's a bitchy whore.Quote:
Originally Posted by TeleThor
Running into happy, smiling folks on a ski tour is never a bad thing. Sharing a skin track with a bitter, non-talkative fuck is interesting. But I laugh at people like that, because too bad for them they can't enjoy themselves. Grrrrr...go get 'em Tiger, as you race up to Days Fork with a mind full of angst and bitterness.
Same thing goes for the heli. I used to waste a lot of energy acting like it pissed me off. Perhaps age has mellowed me, but I could care less about the heli.
I think most of us have more pressing concerns in life than to worry about who put in the skin track, or how many people are ahead.
In my JONGish opinion, threads and TRs will probably lead people to heard to the good spots. But it would be difficult (though not impossible) to quantify the actual impact.
That's the negative.
The positive is that I've noticed this crew and many of the OG's are really good at promoting awareness. Even if it is in a not-so-nice manner. After getting slammed once in here, I learned my lesson about how I talk about BC trippin'. Thank you My Pet Powder Goat.
The long and short of it is that dumb people will heard and smart ones will avoid those places.
The more experience BC trippers have a lot of knowledge to offer here and do a good job of keeping people informed.
Its not letting me upload any images or links, so just copy and paste. This was off of LP's FB page, supposedly taken this morning on Baldy...
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?ei...1.136004604492
i'm guessing you won't be skate skiing in round valley till sometime in decemeber, it'll be back to bike riding there in two weeks or less :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Trackhead
that's funny, most folks get more bitter about the heli as they get older. i also found myself not caring as much. i started going out with real expectations of where i'd be and had a better time for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trackhead
Yeah, I know. I was more joking.Quote:
Originally Posted by BRUTAH
I know it's ghey, but I'm hoping the summer road at Alta is packed down by the cats so I can get my homo skinny skis out and enjoy it while it lasts.
I don't want to give away anyones stash, so I will just say I was somewhere in tri canyons, and it seemed deep...for January :fm:.
About a foot of fluff on top of a pleasantly consolidated base. Only tagged one rock over about 2500 of vertical. Didn't observe anything that made me the least bit alarmed to be out, so take that for what it is worth. Amazing morning to be out; I was really blown away with how "winterish" it looked.
Cubicle observations include a huge shit eating grin, and a bit of dawn patrol stank covered up with cheap cologne. Awesome.
how bout this, stop taking pics and posting reports...
Pole deep on the shoulder. Maybe slightly deeper. 40ish inches.
A slight layer of ice at the bottom of all this new snow. Maybe Saturday's stuff melting around. Any rocks we hit had the sheen of ice over them.
http://www.famousinternetskiers.com/...r/_MG_0215.jpg
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looks awesome ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by zion zig zag
Second into main chute this AM. Nipple deep blower, didn't hit anything in the chute. Were a few sharks lurking after exiting, but the lower frozen layer from the warmer storm on Saturday is helping.
This is awesome.
Next major event is looking like it swings in from th SW- like through Central Cali/Tahoe then into UT. At least that's what the AM Nam and GFS models were looking like when I checked them this am.
I checked in to Alta craziness this morning about 7 and had 3 sweet laps on Greeley. Hit no rocks or anything, and I was on skinny skis! Saw maybe ~100 people spread out over Alta, but I'll take if for a last minute decision to go skiing in October. A lot of goods to be had out there, I was way surprised with how good this morning was.
Oh. Fuck. Yes!
this is fucking awesome. next weekend is going to be my first in utah. making the move from maine. this might be a retarded question but where im from we usually arent skiing till 1st week of december. how does this compare to seasons in the past as far as early season snow goes?
completely normal, it'll be melt/freeze for a couple more weeks though.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheLoaf4Life
i like the thoughts of 30 plus before halloween being normal. something tells me i may like utah.Quote:
Originally Posted by ectreeskier11
A little nasty going up, but really nice for 10/27. Some face shots on the shoulder. As I was hiking, I ran into a guy who lost his ski on the Baldy shoulder. Bummer.
Nice to meet you up there, Jtrue. Over the boots.
lionel you're killing it.. keep em coming.
We started at the crack of 11:30am, cause I spend mornings wrenching on motos on October, not getting out of bed early to do something silly, like skiing.
Tom forgot his sunglasses.
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/y...1/DSCF3366.jpg
Crowded in the pen, but who cares, everyone is smiling.
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/y...1/DSCF3367.jpg
WTF? The entire mountain is tracked out, but what's that to the skiers left of Main Chute? By golly, nobody has skied that yet.
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/y...1/DSCF3369.jpg
Still hasn't been hit.
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/y...1/DSCF3373.jpg
Still hasn't been hit, but Main Chute is getting hammered by the herd.
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/y...1/DSCF3376.jpg
Nice to be back in the hills.
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/y...1/DSCF3381.jpg
Got to the top of Baldy and skied the line just skiers left of Main Chute. Hit maybe two rocks, the rest was pretty much perfect.
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/y...1/DSCF3386.jpg
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/y...1/DSCF3387.jpg
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/y...1/DSCF3388.jpg
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/y...1/DSCF3390.jpg
Went up for another lap. Normally I wouldn't post such shitty, blurry pics. But my camera is busted, and hey, it's October, so.........
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/y...1/DSCF3396.jpg
Little billy goat to sneak in to the bottom of Main Chute.
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/y...1/DSCF3398.jpg
Great day. Time to go ride motos for another month. See you then.
I took this photo under Devil's Castle this morning.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/...7¬if_t=like
'Twas Deep.
Awesome.
Hello skiing! It's been too long.
trackhead great pics. looks amazing for october
Good to meet you as well, should get out again sometime. Rad that the BD guys let us drop in.Quote:
Originally Posted by Christopher3000
Fabulous time up at Alta today. P-lot looked like a normal day, haha
Skied Ballroom. No rocks were hit and tons of fun was had.
ahhh, feelin good at work today! TH I was just up there for work and saw your tracks up next to main chute with my big camera, sick.
Jared goin deep:
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...s/DSC08427.jpg
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...s/DSC08423.jpg
All you guys are now on my shit list
;)
Fuck, fuck, fuck.
Fuck North Carolina.
Well done all.
Not much different that being on a chair with folks from outa town who just are having a good time being where they are in the moment. As opposed to the "pain train" mentality in some spots.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trackhead
That being said, I'm ready to take my Dukes and Factors into somebody's pool and start pissing...nicely of course.
I set the bootpack at the crack of 6 this morning, that sucked.
Ordered dynafits as soon as i got home.
http://www.adhaiku.com/images/dosequis_interesting.jpg
"I don't usually ski Alta. But when I do, I prefer preseason blower."
Today was a blast, beautiful day to be out in the mtns, and happy folks everywhere.
THis thread makes me all kinds of crazy happy.
Just FKNA awesome. Really looks a lot like october 2007. I wonder why...
^^^^hilarious!!! I'm ready for more, much more. Great way to start. Praise be to Ullr.
N-NE skied very deep above 9500 today. The snow came in right side up and finished off with some utah fluff.
http://www.tgrmedia.com/i.ashx?w=800...ap_730X550.jpg
http://www.tgrmedia.com/i.ashx?w=800...ap_730X550.jpg
yet another ec'er movin to foofyland.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheLoaf4Life
read the reports carefully. i remember my 1st winter out there pre-intertoobz.
i called the avy report and it said that 3-4 feet was expected with the incoming system. i was very young at the time and thought i'd heard bruce wrong. he must've meant 3-4 inches, no? nope, that storm was a life changer fer sure.
have fun, be safe and come home with tall tales. we'll leave the light on for ya.
rog
people that actually enjoy skiing wouldn't go back to NH... :rolleyes2Quote:
Originally Posted by icelanticskier
just one?Quote:
Originally Posted by icelanticskier
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ima...06-E-18382.jpg
It was plenty light in UT today.
Provo:
http://perpetualweekend.com/wordpres...0/IMG_7606.jpg
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Mark H:
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