Wasatch Touring is 1st South and 7th East, just to clarify, but I'm sure you woulda figured that out.
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Wasatch Touring is 1st South and 7th East, just to clarify, but I'm sure you woulda figured that out.
It was a beautiful day. When was the last time you skied blue 'snow' at Alta?Quote:
Originally Posted by alTAos
It was definitely boiler plate, but in a friendly New England sort of way. At least it was windy. Pooled grapple was nice and was white so you could stay on track with it. On a ten scale I gave it a 2.5, the grapple zone were maybe a 4. High-T never opened, along with damn near everything else. :nonono2:
The Bird looked grim.
Yay. Can't wait to get the report from the angry misses when she lands after a three hour ground delay at PHL.Quote:
Originally Posted by Johnny Deep
^^^
Are we still on tap for a much needed refresher on Wednesday? Beyond?
Jackson and Targhee skied most excellent this past Sunday and yesterday, respectively :biggrin:
Next event is Wednesday - prob in the 8-10 range. If it stalls it goes up. Speeds up - goes down. pretty decent upward motion forecast so that's good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Johnny Deep
Following that another wave moves in from the NW. Operation GFS isn't quite in line with the ensemble models or the EC model...but all show another moderate round of snow.
Edit: I really really like sushi and am seeking advice on the best fish in SLC. I'm not a roll guy when there is really fresh sashimi and nigiri. the Ms. and I are thinking Naked Fish ...have also heard advice on Tsunami in cottonwood heights and Takahasi
I've had good experiences with Tsunami. Highly recommended.Quote:
Originally Posted by lionelhutz
Hope it stalls. We'll need more than dust on crust to help heal this ice. That being said I had fun skiing yesterday at the bird. Made the most of a shitty day. Does anyone know how valid the "raising the ground level" theory is in Utah? I've heard of it in BC, but am wondering if we would need like a week of solid rain to make that happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by lionelhutz
Oh and sushi. Ichiban Sushi has been our go to place for sushi for the last 10 or so years. Very, very high quality fish there. A more traditional atmosphere as opposed to the contemporary, techno-background music atmosphere found at Happy Sumo.
Totally weather related..... Lionel, go to Takashi for what you are looking for and just ask what the chefs recommend. It may be a bit more spendy than other options, but for sashimi you will not be disappointed. I have had some crazy good stuff in there.
Takashi..
Sorry to derail the thread...thanks for the advice all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alx88
BTW there's a joke somewhere in here about fresh sushi, momo girls and virginity but I'm not smart enough to make it.
Back to the regularly scheduled programming.
Let it snow.
unless we get a miracle and the temperature stays up a lot longer than expected and actually even affects the current surface, the 6-10 or whatever tomorrow won't do a whole lot. things are looking bleak up there. hope for the best, expect the worst.
I'm thinking the 6-10 will pool a lot nice than yesterdays grapple. The steeps, well, that one will be what it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by ectreeskier11
Pray for good bonding.
I don't know how it works for utah specifically (probably because it only happens once every 20 years there!), but it certainly happens plenty back east. I'd say it probably depends on how thick and uniform the ice crust is. Back here when we have a good rain event followed by a deep freeze it tends to make everything from valley to summit caked under a thick layer of ice... I think the idea is that you get such incredible bridging strength from the ice layers and frozen saturated snow that all the deep instabilities kinda go away. If you don't have the thick ice layer (and frozen saturated snow), or if it's not uniform/doesn't go all the way up, I'd imagine some of the weak layers would still be in play, although it'll probably help the stability...Quote:
Originally Posted by monkeywrenchMoose
I figured you all might have too much sand in the vagina after I heard the compaining, then I received this text from my wife at the Bird today: "Worst skiing ever. top of mtn closed just so no slide 4 life. scary icy"
stay safe up there folks
I've never seen anything like it out west. Reminds of of growing up at Sugarloaf and the yearly rain freeze events. Personally I had a blast. Silver Fox was sweet (all relative) and skiing the lower section bumps under peruvian is about as challenging as it gets.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tresckow
But it is frozen mank all the way up.
I remember it doing the same thing 2 or 3 seasons ago. I grew up skiing on the EC and can easily say the 2 worst days of my life conditions wise have been at snowbird. It snowed, things got better.
Always wanted to go ice climbing...
Skinned up to Fantasy ridge from Alta with Paj this morning, just to see how bad it was up high and fully expecting to ski the groomer track back to the bottom.
Pleasantly surprised to find south-southeast aspects to be holding graupel-corn, which was soft enough to make for some spring-like skiing:
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5250/...acbc0659_z.jpg
North and west facing snow was death crust/glare ice. Don't fall.
On your question - Takashi.Quote:
Originally Posted by lionelhutz
Regarding the weather, I've looked at the GFS models and see a fair storm Wednesday, a maybe kinda fair storm saturday, then the goddamned dreaded ridge of death moving over us from there until the end of time. And this is the only thing that seems consistent from run to run. Can you see any kind of inconsistency that I don't see, or some other model telling me that the fucking goddamned dreaded ridge of death is not going to be over us for at least two weeks starting saturday? Lie to me if you have to.
we have it coming after the start of the season.Quote:
Originally Posted by skiski
I really really like Naked Fish. The sushi chef trained in Japan, they have the best sake list in SLC, and the fish varietals are amazing. Spendy though. Takashi is overrated imho, trendy and noisy with scant portions and boring omakase selection. I was pleasantly surprised by Tsunami in sugarhouse, didn't expect much based on looks but the fish was very fresh and prices were low. But I think Naked Fish is up there with the best sushi restaurants in Boston and LA (where i've lived before). Let us know what you think~Quote:
Originally Posted by lionelhutz
This is absolutely true..... if you dont just let the sushi chefs do their job and serve you what they think will be good. Ordering off the menu and Takashi is 'just another sushi place with really expensive drinks'. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by caelum7
Go to Takashi, sit down at the sushi bar and ask them "what is the best and most interesting today"? and you will have a great experience.
Last Wednesday I did this at lunch and had an amazing Monk fish liver pate sashimi style, sea urchin, and some fresh Toro.
They don't use the market anyone in utah and most sushi places use (aquarius on 3rd next to Caputo's) and they have chefs that no what they are doing.
Yes you can sit down and order a spicy tuna roll of the menu and then think "huh, this is kind of lame and not worth it" but otherwise I really can't see having a bad experience there.
Oh, and the skiing sucks in downtown slc right now, I wouldn't consider it jib worthy at all.
I missed this the first time around, too...Quote:
Originally Posted by lionelhutz
Let it SNOW.
I'll be at Snowbird the last weekend in January. Just finished looking at the GFS and I feel sick. That ridge has been on every run for at least the past 7 days.
Good luck guys.
I tried this last time (omakase means chef's choice) but maybe it was an off day. i'll have to try it again, maybe the weekend dinner crowd spoiled my appetite.Quote:
Originally Posted by frozenwater
sad about the snow, looks like i'll be hunkering down and getting around to some much neglected house projects in the next few weeks, which should make the missus happy!
@SKISKI-
Look at the EURO...decent event next wednesday as well.
^^
Colon puckering, even on this end.
I have links to the GFS and NAM. Where does one find links to the Euro?Quote:
Originally Posted by lionelhutz
One stop shop...poke around. Lots there. PM if you want explinations of anything.Quote:
Originally Posted by skiski
http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~gadomski/ewall.html
Anyone at the bird today? How are the conditions up there?
I got a report from Alta....and that's close to the bird.
Reports were it was about 10-11 of denser snow. Anything that was groomed is skiing great. Haven't opened anything else yet. Wind was hammering this am. Still snowingly lightly. Filling in many of the bumps. Needs to bond.
Yeah im assuming that the base left after this past weekends "rain" event still needs some more snow...Quote:
Originally Posted by lionelhutz
East Bowl rode GREAT.. Wind jacked up top as always, felt pretty blower/bottomless the rest of the way down..
Man its a bitch breaking the trail out! We saw like 40 people at 6:30 am heading towards twin lakes pass, I assumed the OR folks.. One of em called me a fag-splitboarder, and told me he had a bigger dick than me :tdo13: I love the PEN.
Hahhahah, all the cool guy, bro/brah OR folks. The folks who come to town with thick knee pads to saunter around the OR Show looking for a cock to suck in hopes of getting deep throated by "the industry" for some free gear and maybe a "spancership" for their next rad expedition that nobody gives a shit about.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alx88
:cool: Brah's were looking sharp :ski: all spancered out though, I'll give 'em that.
And don't forget the 99% who own or manage a retailer, or who work for a manufacturer or distributor and are trying to find items to sell at a price that makes them money so they can pay the mortgage and feed the family. What a bunch of fags. Then they have the nerve to try to mix business with pleasure and get in some turns while on their business trip. Don't they know that those of us who live here own the goddamn mountains and will outski them down the K-12 any fucking day of the week? Pathetic.:rolleyes2Quote:
Originally Posted by Trackhead
I love searching for metaphorical cock to suck.
edit: oh wait...the conditions. No idea.
Hey, if everyone carried on like me, there would be no stinkin' economy. I raise a beer to you's guys! You bring me new gear and pad my 401...I feel sort of indebted, but am not stoked enough to change my ways...tomorrow I ski...again. Maybe some day I'll reach FAG status.