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MacDaddy- my PM's are clear now, fire away...
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Famous? No! Gainfully employed? Maybe........ ;)
MacDaddy- my PM's are clear now, fire away...
Snow? Face Shots? Snorkel? Pfft... I just picked up a new leather jacket for 50-bucks. Now, if I can just find some black leather pants in size 44 I can hang with the MacDaddy.
Actually, being the only Minion at PowMow guess I'll have to give that report.
Freakin Deep. Deeper than this deep pow JONG has ever experienced. Yeah, snorkel would have been good. Seemed a tad heavy in the AM, and as the temp lowered got better. So glad I grew a beard for shit like this! Total Yeti effect after being buried by endless face, no way over the head shots. That place didn't even get close to tracked out, especially off Paradise. Simply could not get to where we wanted to go without a waist deep slog.
Didn't have to spend cash on dinner/drinks in SLC tonight due to weather, so I'll spend my bucks tommorrow at Basin. See you there. Blue/Grey NorthFace XXXXLpants/jacket, black Giro, blue Smiths, and uhhhhh, PR's.
Last night, as ColdSmoke and I were discussing today's game plan on the phone, I asked what plan B would be if the Cottonwoods didn't open by 8:30. He mocked me and thought I was crazy because the resorts had "too much to lose if they didn't open the day after Christmas and there would be no way that would happen." But, I made him commit to another resort nonetheless (otherwise he would have sat in line for hours--I've seen him do it).
Needless to say, when we were turned away at the mouth of LCC at 8:32 I invoked his choice for Plan B--PowMow. It turned out to be a very good call. As we were fading from cell range near Powder Mtn, at about 10:30 this morning, the last Cottonwood report we heard stated that there was no opening time for the Cottonwoods.
Powder Mtn had already received the same dumpage as Alta on the early report (20 overnight), and it puked all day without letting up. I won't be surprised if we hear on the news tonight that we were skiing on an official 40" new total by the end of the day. It certainly felt like it.
It was heavier density than we expected, causing the usual problems associated with the tamer slopes around the Ogden area, but we found good stuff bombing the runs down to shuttle while waiting for the Paradise quad to open. Paradise is PM's longest chair, a low-speed, fixed-grip dealio adequate enough to get us to some of PM's best offerings of the day.
All in all, it was a great way to spend an epic Utah powder day with the Cottonwoods denied...:)
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"Satisfying those normal human urges..."
see everyone next sunday. heheheheeeee
keep pumping
sick sick sick.
:D
We waited in the line at LCC for a little while, but once am 530 said "roads may open sometime in the afternoon" we took off for the basin and were rewarded for doing so. Same 2 day snow totals as Alta. Maggots went off. Before today only 4 maggots had hucked boss hog: phUnk, stoy, myself, and cliff huckstable. Today ski bum z and CS can both be added to that list and both got upside down. That place blows in so DEEEEEP. Someone went by to test the depth of the landing and sunk a pole completely. Visibility was sketch and none of the gates opened, but that just means we get to hit that stuff tomorrow.
With the way it is still puking out there I don't see LCC opening anytime early tomorrow. The darkness certainly isn't going to help them.
We'll be back at Basin tomorrow and we should have a pretty big crew.
I managed to my knee up through my chin guard and into my face on my second hog hit and have nice little shiner coming in. :D
GT shot video of all the boss hog tomfoolery. I'll try to get it posted when I get back to CO. I'm sure the next couple of days are just going to be better. This snow is nuts. Turns with any pitch at all are chest deep. You could jump off (or straightline)anything.
We just need some vis and [blasphemy] this snow to break for a little while[/blasphemy] so some avy control can get done and some gates can drop.
FRZ, get's scare of the day after ending up face down in a tree well for over 20 minutes. I can't say I've ever experienced anything like this, but hearing that more die from tree wells than slides I can only imagine it's pretty damn terrifying.
FREE REFILLS - see you guys tomorrow :D
Endless-
Wish I knew you and 'Smoke were up there today...did part of the day alone:( , but then hooked up with a couple of the mountain hosts and started lapping the steeper parts of Paradise till 2PM.
Heard one super-cool thing on the radio. The mountain manager was thinking about stopping Woody and the Shuttle due to bad road conditions and the bus overloading. Woody gets back on the radio and says,
"Quit?! This bus never quits!" End of conversation. Woody is the mang.
Lumpy-- I don't have your cell or I would have called you. I called the Maggot/Minion Central Switchboard Operator (MD9) and he didn't have it. I then posted a message here on the board (for the last 45 minutes we were in cell range) asking anyone for it, but no one replied.
I erased the post that had my phone number when I started getting some weird hang-up calls. http://endlessseason.com/smilies/headscratch.gif
Anyways, we'll have to try it another time...
go get some.Quote:
Originally posted by meatdrink9
sick sick sick.
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FREE REFILLS - see you guys tomorrow :D
bastards!
We also did laps around LCC hoping the road would open. Once it started not looking so good, we headed over to BCC and made it up the canyon in the short period the road was open this morning. First time we ever skied Solitude. Absolutely beautiful. You could straighline a shot and get one continuous faceshot the whole way down. So lucky our timing was right this morning and we made it both up and down the road... :D
I hear ya, that was the word I got from roommate. And to think, the canyons was reporting 27, PC 26, and LCC 28.Quote:
Originally posted by powstash
Same thing at The Canyons. Condor, Lookout, even Golden Eagle were all unbelievable. Didn't even make it to Peak 5/9990...but didn't need to.
How long was your drive up the mountain this morning powstash? :D
I think I'll be at le canyons tomorrow..
Don't even want to hear about how sick LCC is on Saturday when the closures lift. La, la, la, I'm not listening to any of you...
Yeah, so I was skiing at least 2' of new at the top of Alpine. But it's not light enough for face shots.
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Originally posted by Spats
Don't even want to hear about how sick LCC is on Saturday when the closures lift. La, la, la, I'm not listening to any of you...
lalalalalalalalalala.....werd.
21 inches in the last 24 hours at basin. :D That puts us at about 50 inches for past 72 hours and it's still puking.
:D
Thank you Red Baron for the insider info on this weekend.
And it looks like lighter snow, too. :)Quote:
Originally posted by meatdrink9
21 inches in the last 24 hours at basin. :D That puts us at about 50 inches for past 72 hours and it's still puking.
:D
Thank you Red Baron for the insider info on this weekend.
Leaving now... hopefully it will take me less than an hour and 10 minutes to get up there...
can't wait to see some pics of the deeeeepness. md9 - you would not be a good employee of TruIce Inc. you got your share of pow days in this year already ya facker ;) :D
12/25
10:45pm: Get call from telephil that road to LCC will close at midnight
10:47pm: Begin to pack shit to make kamakazie run up the canyon and beat the closure.
11:15pm: Leave phUnk's hoping to beat the closure and "accidentally" get stuck at the Peruvian when interlodge takes effect at 1:00am
12/26
12:10am: Get to the Peruvian, begin scouting good places to crash and kill time until interlodge. We are so money.
12:45am: Get caught setting up camp in a dark corner of the TV room by the Peruvian's decrepit old bastard security guard. He threatens to call the marshall and have us arrested. We begin to make alternate plans.
12:55am: Thanks to some super cool peruvian employees and our super smooveness, we score a room at the Peruvian for $20. We are still so money.
7:30am: Wake up, put on gear begin waiting patiently for interlodge to lift so we can ski sick pow.
10:00am: Still waiting for interlodge to lift.
11:00am: Still waiting for interlodge to lift.
12:00pm: Still waiting for interlodge to lift.
1:00pm: Still waiting for interlodge to lift.
2:00pm: Still waiting for interlodge to lift.
2:30pm: Patrol offically announces that the mountain will not open and interlodge will remain in effect through the night. We are so not money.
4:00pm: Thanks to some more smooveness, and the bag of high quality MJ that I kicked the employees who hooked us up the night before, we score another room for $20 and permission to poach meals at our leisure.
12/27
7:15am: Wake up, put on gear, pack shit.
7:45am: Poach breakfast, wait for interlodge to lift.
9:35am: Interlodge lifts, mad rush ensues.
9:45am to 2:30pm: Choke on pow :D We are so money.
Anyone far enough up the canyon saw this today:
http://endlessseason.com/2003/dec/lcc_12.27.03.jpg
http://endlessseason.com/2003/dec/lcc2_12.27.03.jpg
It's been awhile since December looked like this!!! :)
Nice endless...very nice. :D :D
This was yesterday at The Canyons while the sun poked out for about 5 minutes. The unreal thing about this photo is that it was taken on a shot I haven't skied in 4 years due to lack of snow. It isn't lacking now.
http://www.feedthehabit.com/pics/ski...ddleback1b.jpg
One of the South Slopes going up Condor? Very niiiiiiice!
Nice guess, but not S. Side Condor. It was taken off the "nose" on Saddleback. It's that little South facing slope that you pass about 1/3 of the way up the lift. Last year I think I remember seeing one or two tracks in there, but it was sketchy at best.
So, let me tell you how deep the skiing was.
Naw, you guys wouldn't be interested...
Tease.
punk they groom the bunny hill so u wouldnt know
Damn. Insanity everywhere.Quote:
Originally posted by powstash
It was taken off the "nose" on Saddleback.
12 Days !!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't take it!!!
.. you bringin Mitch Ryder too?? :DQuote:
Originally posted by detroit
12 Days !!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't take it!!!