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How was Crystal today? A rainy mess, dust on crust, or a little better than that? Any chance Rex opened?
I have the day off tomorrow and debating whether the turns are worth the trek.
Cliff Mass sucks. teenie weenie energy.
I think we’re back to needing a couple feet before Crystal can get the upper half back open.….webcams showed pretty bare at the base of Rex yesterday.
According to NWAC, it was actually good for the base this time. Not the depth, but the bond.
looks like a decent deal on some Billy Goats in Seattle: https://offerup.com/item/detail/ae9f...9f020cd?q=on3p
seller seems to be biting some of GregL's product descriptions haha.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bronco
The PNW pow slaying champions, the Billy Goat was designed in Tacoma (now made in Oregon) specifically for Crystal Mountain Resort. Its Reserve Elliptical Sidecut and Asymmetrical Tip Taper makes these things slash through our cascade concrete like a hot knife in butter.
ON3P builds these things with extra thick metal edges and a base 50% thicker than industry standard so their durability is legendary and the sharks off the Chair 6 traverse cower in fear.
Summit west opening Saturday, high odds I’m up there with the little guy
I rallied up to Paradise today since the telemetry went nuclear last night
It was not quite as I expected. The morning update said gate at 9. The fee station guy said 10 which was nice since I'd slept in and bet on 10. Actually opened around 10:15.
The clearer skies in the forecast never showed and it was spitting snow all day. From Paradise to Pan Point was quite nice with at least boot top fresh, sometimes more, the trouble is that there are still a lot of creek holes and hazards that make anything more than low-angle hippie pow turns a dice roll.
As soon as the slope angle increased on Pan Face there was a few inches of wind smoothed cream and *a lot* of sharks still. Plus any rocks particularly windward were still very exposed. A couple impressively deep drifts over creek holes at the bottom of the face.
Above pan point was shark city, the skin track wove in and around rocks everywhere. I only bothered to go up to McClure Rock with the crap visibility and sharks it was either picking through rocks or guessing at topography.
Was good to be out on skis and shake the rust off, but had really hoped the snowpack was in better shape after looking at the telemetry.
More weather links to nerd out over -- CascadiaMountainWeather on youtube or cascadia_mountain_wx on IG, I'm too jong-y to link directly.
Dudes just started posting it this year, not sure how accurate it will end up being.
I went up for the wrod at Crustal yesterday. The drive up was great, got parked in second row of B lot by 8:15, saw CuzinNick of the Greydon clan,, the hopped in a relatively short line by 8:30. They started loading Chinook about 8:50. Hooked up with a bunch of the old regulars and pounded the squat laps, only 1 run Tinkerbell, had decent coverage. Got some shin deep on the sides and it was relatively empty until about 10:30 when it got crowded and a little spooky with marginally controlled patrons ripping. Each lap was about 4 minutes of skiing, so I racked up around 20 laps before leaving at noon.
It didn't look like they were in any hurry to make snow. A few guns were firing on lower Skid Road by 11:00, but none of the other guns were going on lower Bull or Deerfly. Coverage above midway looked thin.
Overall, it was unworthy, but I just fucking love skiing.
Doxxing myself here, but guilty(ish?) as charged. Can't say I didn't read the Evo description but I was specifically looking for the facts of the base/edge durability.Quote:
Originally Posted by californiagrown
I was definitely inspired by GregL's much better writing though and if its too close I'll rewrite.
If there's any local mags that want em though, $150 off current asking.
Sig worthy!Quote:
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Planned to tour stevens tmrw but with the forecast changing to rain tmrw we yolo'd late morning out to stevens and got in an afternoon lap before my CAST tech toes got buggered up and sent us home early(ish,probably would have been skiing in the dark had we gone up again). Was nuking the whole time and coverage looked impressively good, even got a few pow turns in. Bummed the rain is gonna kill the snow pack again. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...40de5bf540.jpg
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Steven's opens Wednesday or so I've heard
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Kill the snowpack?Quote:
Originally Posted by eSock
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Err kill the fresh pow idk
This is WA and the Cascades you’re talking about.Quote:
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Did a few backside and one frontside lap today at Stevens. Despite the skin track being a bit of a mess getting up DD the skiing was top notch. Got plenty of shin to knee deep turns and didn’t really hit anything buried.
Lots of open creeks holes around so here’s hoping for some more cold temps.
I think every pass holder in the Puget Sound went to West today. Had my touring gear in the car and just kept driving to Silver Fir. People parked all the way past Commonwealth. Mostly rock free but many open creeks still.
West parking was a shitshow but the mountain wasn’t too bad and the crowds left when it started snowing. Some open spots but the soft groomers were nice. Just lapped the greens with the little guy, need to get him out of the backseat.
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Love the kid stoke! Nice way to rock the PNW mag uniform. No need to ask for change, just look for the Dakine vest [emoji28]Quote:
Originally Posted by carlh
Correction... TuesdayQuote:
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any pictures of that skin track? That would be interesting to see. That’s steep. You go up the ridge?Quote:
Originally Posted by ey_allen
Pretty sure I’ve booted it.Quote:
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Sometimes I talk to myself
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Hey dude.Quote:
Originally Posted by MagnificentUnicorn
It is steep. I think I booted it but in the spring. Up the ridge that bounds Big Chief bowl on skier’s left. We used to lap double diamond. Remember that? I do.Quote:
Originally Posted by wickstad
I think the usual route to the backside is up Daisy and Skid Road? At least that’s where I see most people goingQuote:
Originally Posted by wickstad
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Looks like Stevens opens on Tuesday.
Those that braved variable freezing levels this w/e: I saw Rex/FQ/GV spinning. Anyone venture off trail? How sharky are we talking? Contemplating a Tuesday leg stretcher
No pics, but yeah it’s steep. That’s the usual “quick” way to get to the backside early season. There is typically a track there, though usually I prefer going under Tye as I have shit skinning technique early season. Combined with shit skinning from everyone else that usually leads a beat up and slippery track (which was the case Saturday).Quote:
Originally Posted by wickstad
Don't worry about the backseat thing for a while. Just focus on having fun. Once he's bigger and heavier and can pressure a boot cuff it'll come around.
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Coverage is pretty good with a little caution, particularly once you're up a little higher (~~5500'). The main thing is going to be the breakable crust that set up yesterday, made for pretty awful off piste skiing. We were in the backcountry but heard the same thing about freshly opened terrain yesterday.Quote:
Originally Posted by Huskydoc
Crustal today until 11:00 was an Ice Station Zebra, frozen mist soup with 6" deep ice cast trenches and murdercrust off what little incredibly poorly done zamboni groom there was.
30 minutes of grooming the virtually unskiable frozen chop would have made a hell of a lot of difference.
By 11:00, the sun had worked a little edgability into the exposed snow with the Lucky Shot rollers getting decent. But I was dead by 1:00, not enough leg blasters or just fucking killer edging exercise today.
Lots of wet slides yesterday fed the frozen chickenheads debris fields today. They did not ski well.
W/O the Buster flake rating, I'm not sure exactly how meh it was at Xtal. Sometimes a picture isn't worth a thousand words or 3 or 4 flakes for that matter.
* at most
Got a taste of some of the pure fluff last Friday. We got another 1.5 feet of base-building wetness on top of that, I ain't complaining. This year early season is about patience or getting high in the warm and sunny windows that keep opening up.
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