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Started out wet, heavy, and grabby at Skibowl, but then about 1 o’clock it cooled off and put a little better snow down.
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Started out wet, heavy, and grabby at Skibowl, but then about 1 o’clock it cooled off and put a little better snow down.
Yep, you gotta luv Cascade pow-dough … so much fun when it’s fresh track. I had a blast the past couple days… pretty much untracked runs until 12:30 today, until my gloves soaked through... gotta try that silicon wax!Quote:
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Yup amazing turns this week in all the normal haunts. Spring resets and no crowds make me happy
Today was good at Mt Brokenchair. Lots of fresh from last couple of days
Although they lost power on OBX & NWX…
East side had best viz, even though the light was flatter than Twiggy
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Stockli stormriders FTW today
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Good snow conditions on the hill. With a few jokers & clowns about.
Rolled into the R0k bar for birthday beers. Free pizza b00m.
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It’s a glorious Holy Saturday. Happy Easter. Hope you and yours are well!
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I had my "advanced physics" ski lesson at Timberline, and it was great. $350 for 3 hours, and they go into the summer.
Seems like the rabbit hole of Newtonian Mechanics isn't really all that deep once you grasp the basic definitions and theories. Then it's just forever doing a lot of drills to optimize your timing and flow. We spent an hour working on that.
For the remainder of the lesson, we got into some crackpot physics, and I thought I might share with the group.
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The second hour of the lesson was Einstein's Relativity Theory.
We talked about inertial reference frames and how they change and how we anticipate and transition between them. Kind of like, "think three turns ahead" but way more spunion.
Going off jumps, the expert skier is skiing the inertial reference frames of takeoff, airtime, landing, and runout at the same time in a clean continuous motion.
Spacetime is not linear, so she needs to mentally believe that she exists in all these inertial reference frames at the same time together, and their dynamic physics are all optimized. Her mind is connected to her nerves and her joints, so it works out.
Much more of a mental space lesson, and to visualize every inertial reference frame you'll have on your run, that they are all perfectly optimized. Then you take your run. Moguls is each bump, racing is each gate... that can clean up your skiing because your anticipation and transitions will be better.
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The other interesting thing was this concept of "hyperfluidity". He kind of stalks Mikaela Shiffrin because he has a conspiracy theory that she wins all her races because she knows something the other ski racers don't know: that with absolutely ridiculously perfect precision, you can make the water molecules in the snow reach a triple point under your edge so the turn is frictionless. His evidence is that the new microphones they just started setting up on World Cup courses capture that the sound of her turns is different.
We spent an hour working on Shriffrin turns on the magic mile, and shit, I even thought I felt one. Whether she is actually skiing at the triple point, idk, but it was still the smooooooothest turn I've ever felt.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...1a3ceb5376.jpg
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And yes, the Shriffrin turns gave me whole new perspective on pressure control, and so they were absolutely worth the lesson.
Skiing bumps transdimensionally was pretty dang fun too.
But I think I'll need to do more investigation to vibe check these triple point shriffrin turns. I haven't been able to stop thinking about them and will be chasing the dragon on that really nice turn for the rest of my life, probably.
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What strain of psilocybin mushrooms were involved in said lesson?
Great TR [emoji106]:)
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Skiing at the Triple Point is definitely a thinghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...14260959ff.jpg
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I don't doubt it. I frankly, have enjoyed your posts.Quote:
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Is the book any good? Mixed reviews on Amazon and, perhaps, dated?Quote:
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Went up to MSH seeking solitude and what’s this? Party at the summit… and yes it was indeed a glorious day, minus a tragedy. I heard someone got too close to the edge and the cornice broke off and fell into the crater. So sad.Quote:
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the crown in that last photo is 😮; avalanche ran right into the crater
Wind keeping it all way too firm today
Was really looking forward to warm soft turns even it meant a little glue at the bottom
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No worries, I am pretty skeptical myself that it's his conspiracy theory, but that turn felt soo good lol, fun to speculate. I ordered the book on paperback to see what's up.Quote:
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When you finish reading it please report back. The reviews were a bit mixed, so I didn't order it ;)Quote:
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Soft turns and no wind at Skibowl today. One of these days we are going to get more people to join us. Ghost town.Quote:
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ha, shows me...shoulda thought of thatQuote:
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is today the day for MHM to publish 24-25 pass prices?
[eta]published here: https://www.skihood.com/blog/2024-25...es-on-sale-now
How quickly in the past do the full access season passes sell out? If they do at all.Quote:
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Pretty great runs @ the bachelor....
till it wasn't, 2hr window. Ski season is over, stay home. Freshness this week.
afaik, this is new with the dynamic pricing business on early season pass purchaseQuote:
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notably they don't say what their thresholds are for when prices shift
not sure why they're trying to squeeze the full pass purchasers since those always sell -- i guess they want the cash in hand asap
In the last 6 to 7 years of their pass options, I've never seen an increase before May 31.Quote:
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I think my son bought his in September and it was still the base price
Spring pass purchased yesterday. Will be skiing there the rest of the week until Sunday. I'm sure that will keep any fresh snow away from Bachy.Quote:
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Thank you for your sacrifice & consideration of others less fortunate.Quote:
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It was sticky from the getgo at Meadows today, more so at higher elevation.Quote:
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If Meadows becomes either an Epic local resort like Stevens or a part of Ikon, I could save about $1000. Not that it will ever happen but is that something to wish for? I don’t think Bachelor has gotten any worse by becoming an Ikon resort… at least from my limited experience skiing there.
^^^Joining Ikon created much larger “holiday” crowds at Mt Brokenchair
And it seems like every fucking week from MLK day to mid April has a “holiday” of some sort for some tourista.
And don’t get me started on the ski clubs with their scarves flying off the back of their helmets. Like the two hundred Floridians for 8 days. “Sad” they were mostly pinned down by blizzards that week.
It sucks here - Tell your friends
#getoffmysnow
Y'all just butthurt from that little girl in the Pink bunny suit the ripped by you on Summit.
^^^that was you in the bunny suit…
Damn, we missed out on booking an RV site for the Doo for this coming weekend because Snake Run Rally resulted in all the sites being booked! The place was empty after that big storm cycle at the start of March finished through, basically no one in the dry camping lot, they didn’t even fill up the lower lot for most of March! We’ll be missing the last weekend of night skiing I guess. Still hoping to come up for Spring Fling.
Ask the customers and employees how it worked out at Stevens. I didn't have personal experience but heard It was a serious shit show. I'm sure there is a thread here discussing if you want to go spelunking the TGR catacombs.Quote:
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Not that it will ever happen but is that something to wish for?
Independent has advantages.
Thanks for the turns Alpental riders. We don't have any good skiers around here.
I’m thinking if Meadows becomes a part of Ikon or Epic, more locals will visit other Epic/Ikon resorts (like Bachelor) than vice versa... like Alppys visiting Bach. It could be a win-win situation.