15" on top plus windblown at Bald Mtn at 3pm today. Hoping for the full 30" predicted. It's still sparse coverage though and new terrain still closed.
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15" on top plus windblown at Bald Mtn at 3pm today. Hoping for the full 30" predicted. It's still sparse coverage though and new terrain still closed.
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^^^ Yikes! That's a grim pic. Fingers crossed for the Sawtooths and some major dumpage.
I'd been looking for an instructor so I always watch when they ski by to get an idea of how they ski with the idea of hiring them. Saw one go by a couple weeks ago and catch up w him at the bottom of the run. I introduce myself, telling him I like the way he skis and I'm looking for an instructor and ask him his name, " Reggie" he says and I start laughing before he smiles and gets out the "Crist."Quote:
Originally Posted by mtnjam
The Wood River Valley is the epicenter of a regional drought so there is a lot more stake than skiing.:FIREdevilQuote:
Originally Posted by Toadman
Something mesmerizing about watching time lapse footie of a snow stake when it's dumping. Watched the SV snow stake go from 0 at 4pm to 13" over the course of 14 hours. Looks like patrol and mtn ops has their work cut out for them.
Bowls didn't open today.
Dear sun valley
Wish I was there.
50" and counting, probably end up w 60". It's supposed to end this afternoon.
That's what you call a storm cycle that seriously over performed!Quote:
Originally Posted by Grain
They closed all the lifts at 2pm. It got warm on top of a very weak base so must be some serious avalanche potential. I wonder if the Bowls will open tomorrow. Daily lift tickets for Saturday are sold out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Toadman
At least 4 treewell incidents on the mountain today. One was possibly fatal. Skier triggered slides into homes on Warm Springs. Search happening now out the board ranch for another skier triggered slide.
Be careful.
That sucks. Hopefully every one comes out okay. They probably almost never have to deal with tree well situations out thereQuote:
Originally Posted by grrrr
That's rough. Why would people take the chance on skiing OB? There is a huge flashing "avalanche warning" coming into town that's been there for days. Today's incidents happened in locations that are readily known to slide and have been the scence of serious injuries and deaths in the not too distant past. Yesterday SVSP reports the longest runouts from control work that have been seen for 30 years. The accicident information and other report is readily available to anyone w 5 mins to spare.Quote:
Originally Posted by grrrr
https://www.sawtoothavalanche.com/av...ident-reports/
Idaho Mtn Express:
"Sources saw a skier exiting The Burn slide in Board Ranch after he was caught and carried on Friday, Davis said. A party of two was caught on Double Ought, where one member of the party sustained an injury and lost a ski in the slide. The other managed to hike up to a patrol shack on Baldy to get a replacement so they could get off the mountain, Davis said.
The skier-caused avalanche on Scorpion hit three houses on Skiway Drive, Ketchum spokeswoman Lisa Enourato told the Mountain Express.
All skiers involved were "out and safe," Davis said."
Just heard 1 or 2 may have died today; perhaps the tree wells got them.
Sucks people are headed OB when danger is high, puts others at risk unknowingly. Stupid.
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These aren't places where the uninitiated go, they have been there many times before I'm sure so I would say they knowingly put others at risk.Quote:
Originally Posted by zlatham
No shit
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Wow.
Yeah heavy snow on champagne powder will get yah!Quote:
Originally Posted by Sol Skier
Hopefully once all this consolidates then we can get some of the new terrain open.
One confirmed dead inbounds, a 67 yo local man. No cause was published yet.
Heart attack I believe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Russet Burbank
Did you go up during the storm? I skied Wednesday afternoon, and enjoyed it very much. I skipped today - a superspreader event, I should have gone to Dollar instead.Quote:
Originally Posted by CaliBrit
Wednesday morning, Thursday afternoon (Wife skied the morning), Friday morning.Quote:
Originally Posted by Russet Burbank
Skipped the shit show Saturday and took the 20 month old on her first ever quarter dollar ride! 4 laps, more than I would have got at Baldy!!!
It seems like all the "live here nows" bought season passes and have major FOMO. It's hopefully going to calm down a little, and we can have our mountain back. It's too bad the Turkey Bowl area is now inbounds and closeable. We would have been out there, skiing the shitty conditions, and somewhat stabilizing the snowpack. As it is, now it's a ticking time bomb, that has to be controled before they can open the new lift. Maybe this is the new normal.
That’s an interesting take. Hadn’t thought about it like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by da klixter
Although given the number of people starting to head out there, many without gear, and given the terrain certainly has potential for consequences, maybe something was needed.
But it is crappy they can now close it. Still excited to ski the new glades around the bike path.....eventually.
Doesn’t help they built the new lift across an avi slope either....
At least the new lift location is farther down Broadway than the original proposal - right at the bottom of one of the Coldspring chutes. I'm excited about the glades on the backside of gun ridge below Otto's bench. AT gear required - that'll thin out the crowd.
CK
Sweet. I should have gone to Dollar yesterday myself. I used to load chairs on qtr dollar in the early 80's. Thankfully kids wear helmets these days!Quote:
Originally Posted by CaliBrit
Interesting, I didn’t realize the other side of gun ridge was gladed.Quote:
Originally Posted by da klixter
Not gladed, just glades. Like all the good stuff we've been skiing outside the rope. Natchel' style ...
CK
I did hear that they gladed Numbers though. Now they just need to let us ski it....
CK
Ski patrol is out in expansion area doing control in the expansion area-probably won't open today. Maybe tomorrow. Be safe out there.
CK
Idaho Mtn Express:
"The weekend death of a Hailey resident on Bald Mountain will be ruled an accident after an autopsy found that Gregory Plowman died of asphyxiation following a likely snow immersion Friday morning, Twin Falls County Coroner Gene Turley confirmed on Monday.
Plowman, 67, died on Friday evening at St. Luke's Magic Valley Medical Center in Twin Falls after apparently falling headfirst into deep, loose snow on the at the ski area, Turley wrote in a Monday statement to the Idaho Mountain Express.
Plowman was found unresponsive around 10:25 a.m. Friday in the vicinity of Sunny Side Bowl, according to a statement from the Sun Valley Resort.
“Our theory is Mr. Plowman was skiing, at high speed, in knee-deep powder snow and snagged a ski which launched him in the air,” Turley stated. “He fell unconscious and died of asphyxiation.”
Plowman did suffer other injuries in the fall, Turley said, “but none were fatal.”"
https://www.mtexpress.com/news/coron...4d695dd28.html
looks like tomorrow is the day
https://www.instagram.com/p/CKzwxzdARdM/
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Originally Posted by Russet Burbank
Lot’s of worse ways to go.
RIP in peace, Plowman!
Skiing down to warm springs road has some inherent risk over and above avy's. I recall listening to a local radio station in the 80's, maybe early 90s and a rescue was being conducted there. Bob Smith (Smith goggles) was the injured party & had struck a fallen, buried tree about boot-top high. I always had concerns about the not so deep base with a fresh snowfall just deep enough to hide objective hazards. Powder mania takes over every time 8" or more falls but it's real important to understand what may lie just beneath the surface. I had my lesson and thankfully just a yard sale.
There was some happy people today.Quote:
Originally Posted by NBABUCKS1
Yeah I won’t ski out there until we get significant snow on the ground. Amazing to me how low tide people are prepared to ski out there.Quote:
Originally Posted by L82thegate
Heard it was good. Heard the snowboarders really gummed up the flattish access and bike path traverse......Quote:
Originally Posted by Russet Burbank