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Today at Silver:
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49n today: power out, nothing running. Pissing rain and screaming wind. Horrible.
Glad o decided not to go. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flyoverland Captive
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looks like no body is turning today. Fuck this warm wind! Supposed to cool down for tomorrow and snow all day with good accumulations in the mountains(anti-jinx) Bring on Monday.
Fingers crossed for tomorrow with cool down, and Ullr keeps the wind in his back pocket. Schweitzer was a no go today, just wondering what the warm up will mean for the snow pack after things chill this evening...Quote:
Originally Posted by 2FUNKY
I am sitting tomorrow out. Waiting for it to stack up for a Monday banger, I will be inbounds. If you are thinking about going touring I would rethink that. No fucking way I would go unless it was way low angle in the trees. This warm up with a deep sugar layer is a full on slide waiting for the trigger man. Even side country will be suspect in my eyes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Toadman
Sweet vid. Goldmember!! Fucking pissed I missed that. Boots were in the shop getting work done, yer welcome.
Strictly inbounds for me.
From a friend who hit 49 this afternoon: "Probably the worst conditions I've skied." And she skis a LOT, so that's saying something....
Gonna try tomorrow, but not expecting much.
I made 2 laps at 49 before the power went out. Definitely not the worst, especially if you've spent any time around the I5 corridor. With that said, still very bad and came straight home to watch the Seahawks and drink beer...Quote:
Originally Posted by Flyoverland Captive
It's fucking puking at Mission Ridge with relatively cold temps. Does MR qualify as Inland PNW?
^^^yesterday was good , sounds like you got the dregs. All the rain set up hard this afternoon; solid crust on everything. The groomers may make it skiable for tomorrow, but anything ungroomed is gonna be nasty.
so many armchair QBs in this thread :nonono2: :nonono2: :nonono2:Quote:
Originally Posted by 2FUNKY
fuck yea mission ridge counts!Quote:
Originally Posted by AaronWright
ALSO DON'T FORGET THURSDAY NIGHT, 6 PM, ARGONNE LIBRARY, MEETING TO DISCUSS AN UPHILL POLICY AT MT SPOKANE
Instead of being a dick, enlighten us all then, man. I dug around a bunch last Monday and there is a nasty sugar layer about 26" down in the Lookout area. Very easy to get a test slab to go with little/no pressure. Combine that with new wet heavy snow with some wind loading and possible rain and warm temps on top with no cohesion deep. Driving around today at work I noticed several small self triggered slides on very moderate terrain. Just my opinion though, do what ever you want.Quote:
Originally Posted by BRUTAH
I wasn't directing that mainly at you, just seemed like a lot of speculative avy forecastin' going down from a lot of people who i suspect don't ski past the ropes that often. sidecountry and backcountry snowpacks (think skier compaction) are often very different. plus safely skiing bc ALWAYS comes down to terrain choices dependent on snowpack stability. either way you never know till you go. plus I guess I just haven't been seeing that 'nasty' sugar layer but I've mainly been skiing E thru S aspects this winter nor I have skied up near lookout this year, but maybe I'm just thinking the snowpack looks pretty stable compared to the pure crap I was looking at in colorado a few weeks back.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2FUNKY
PS if anyone is skiing silver today, i'll be in all green with a red helmet
Cool. Crap, I was thinking about going to Silver today but for sure tomorrow.Quote:
Originally Posted by BRUTAH
From the Idaho Panhandle Avalanche Center:
The following conditions apply to our entire forecast region. Over the past 24 hour period 1 inch to 2 inches of snow water equivalent have fallen in the mountains. This means that heavy, wet snow is piling up over new and unsettled snow from this week. This will also seriously test the strength of the deeper weak layers in the pack that formed during the sub-zero weather we experienced in December. New snow in the past 24 hours could amount to as much as 1 foot above 5,000 feet and with strong westerly winds lee aspects could have unstable drifts as deep as 3-4 feet. Warming temperatures with this storm is also creating an inverted snowpack with lighter snow layers underneath heavier, wetter layers. The weather for Saturday and Saturday night will only add to the complex avalanche problem. Stay off steep slopes and use caution in and around avalanche terrain. This is a great weekend to stay inside and watch football, fix the plumbing, or catch up on some reading. The avalanche danger for the entire Idaho Panhandle Avalanche Center forecast region is rated as HIGH on all aspects steeper than 30 degrees above 4,500 feet.
Be smart everyone.
I live btw Salmo and Nelson and have never heard of the road closing, for future reference. The one that closes is btw Salmo and Creston. Hope you had fun Friday- it was a good day- and that Red panned out, tho I'm guessing Sat was heavy and maybe some wind issues? WW was super awesometime today, no lines and the best snow! I'd grab a Valhalla seat for Mon tho you're going to deal with avy issues. WW will still be good if you know were to go...Quote:
Originally Posted by Shredhead
WW def has shitshow days and Saturday was one of them. Fortunately I avoided all the shit and only dealt with pow.Quote:
Originally Posted by GoldMember
Going to Silver tomorrow. Anyone else?
Got up to the FAA area in lookout pass today, Janurary 13. Here were my observations:
Dense wind affected new snow. Crust on surfaces below 5300'. Really windy day with winds in the morning going from E to W before changing directions around 1130 to W to E. (thought the winds traveling from the east was a little odd, which is the reason I'm noting it)
Dug a pit on a SSE facing slope at an elevation of 5960' on a ~25 degree slope. Total depth was 60-65"
First failure occurred almost immediately on an ECT 4, Q2, very little propagation through column, didn't even make it all the way past my shovel. Failure occurred 4" down from top (basically overnight snow or snow sitting on the layer that got baked during the brief warm up on saturday). Second failure was an ECT 24, Q3 about 15" down from top (basically the new storm snow that we've received over the last week).
I didn't see any signs of instability as I was skiing or skinning up, and I did stomp around above and on some test slopes to try to get snow to release, but had no luck.
There's a layer I couldn't get to react on the ECT (maybe due to low slope angle?) sitting around the 30" mark that could be an issue on steeper terrain as it was significantly less hard than the surrounding layers..... I'd rate the avalanche danger for the day at CONSIDERABLE moving to moderate, but take the rating with a grain of salt as my pit was dug on a low angle.
I thought the inland nw only had backcountry advisories posted once a week from areas no one skis?
Nice observations. Wish I would have been able to make it to Silver yesterday to catch a few laps with ya. Met up with SpokaneMike today and ripped a few laps with him. Good dude/great skier and knows Silver very well.
come on bro, you know all the real INW bc skiers ski 'da schweitzer sidecountry! :rolleyes2 :fmicon:Quote:
Originally Posted by kevino
there were 3 cars park on the northside of the bridge this morning at lookout and a skinner to the top! seems like a rarity that I don't get the pleasure of breakin' trail.
sent ya a PM with my number so maybe we can link up in ddaaaa future for a tour or resort shred.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2FUNKY
Wait you guys r making fun of the fact that we are a little backwater mountain zone?....just the way we like it.. Oh and thanks for the report, how were the turns?
Hey, I resemble that remark! Everyone knows we're core...Quote:
Originally Posted by BRUTAH
Mainly, we were referencing a little inside joke about the effectiveness of the panhandle avy center since they cover a HUGE area and only update once a week, but I do VERY MUCH APPRECIATE the work those guys do and know the limits of their resources. Turns were alright, snow was pretty wind affected, kinda like skiing whipped cream cheese. but still a whole lotta fun!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by chiller
"areas no one skis" ... isn't that the entire INW bc?Quote:
Originally Posted by kevino
Did anyone carry your skis?Quote:
Originally Posted by BRUTAH
nope, but i'm pretty sure it was the same tele skier I ran into last year who took offense to my 'tele-free wasatch' sticker :biggrin: :fmicon:Quote:
Originally Posted by bumski
I wonder if it's the same tele skier that is working on the Mt Spokane uphill policy.Quote:
Originally Posted by BRUTAH
Your pictures suck Kevino. You should go somewhere prettier.Quote:
Originally Posted by kevino
this years igloo is just past the bc gate at the top of ridge run at schweitzer. looks like it won't be burried anytime soon so take your kids out there for a visit. go through the gate then down and to the left, its maybe 100 feet out of bounds
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h2...pscb96da91.jpg
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Tour partner getting the perfect corn on SE aspect above Glidden Lakes this weekend.
Steep NW chutes also stable and skied. Had a hard time getting any fracture in our pit. 115cm depth at 6550' NW
Nice man!
Hey High Pressure, FUCK YOU!!!!:fuckyou:
got up to whitefish to kick it with kevino. fun was had.
first we hung out at this lookout for a couple of hours.....
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y25...psb97e5575.jpg
finally after someone :fmicon: pooped out the sun, our objective came into view..... Mt Brown
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we failed to summit, since we didn't have the proper equipment nor time. Nor did it look skiable from the summit, so zack shredded some hoar
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y25...ps3411e4f6.jpg
there might not have been great snow but our exit down to synder creek was both fun and sporty!
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y25...psf4b272d7.jpg
who says there is no jibbin' in the bc?? kevino grind'n some rails
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y25...ps55a957c5.jpg
it got wintery on sunday and we again failed to summit, but found some nice turns on the way down elk mountain.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y25...psb03ba26f.jpg
great weekend, thanks to kevino and zack for drivin' me around and breaking trail all weekend! also props to kevino for taking me to the train station at 2 in the morn as my train was slightly delayed
^Sweet, cool pics.
'twas a good weekend indeed
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How much easier was it this weekend, putting your boots on in walk mode?Quote:
Originally Posted by BRUTAH
FIRST your grammar is horrible, that sentence doesn't merit a comma. :the_finge Crap :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by bumski
SECOND, you were right. it doesn't mater how you put on your boots. I will continue to put them on in ski mode though. :yourock:
THIRD, the reason your boots have slop is because you ski in the back seat. :the_finge
anymore questions?
Audiobooks don't pronounce punctuation well. It was either that or 3 dots...Quote:
Originally Posted by BRUTAH
And I will continue to hike in ski mode and ski with skins on.Quote:
Originally Posted by BRUTAH
[QUOTE=BRUTAH;4169259]THIRD, the reason your boots have slop is because you ski in the back seat. :the_finge
Back seat is still a seat.
Why aren't you skiing powder right now?Quote:
Originally Posted by BRUTAH
Ps: good job in Montana! Well, besides not summiting anything...
Anybody ski Schweitzer today? Still goods left for tomorrow? Ski free Friday is always a cluster...