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Sleeper morning at the ghee. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...517be7437a.jpg
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Fuckin a right
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Originally Posted by lindenle
Luckily, I recognize the hat. But once upon a time...
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Past couple days have been fun at the Ghee
Indeed, this AM was light and delightsome.
Pretty great, though thin, on the pass as well today.
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Caught the Colter opener today! Man the was fun! That’s the early season day of skiing I needed. Solo chairs all morning
Going to be kicking around on the pass tomorrow if anyone is out and about
3 improving mornings at the vill has made for a typical start. Nice to turn with old friends skiing fast already.
Double stoke to run into lindenle and DVZ today. We need to get him and Teleracer Ryan to the EuroGrumble.
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CMartin - you still around here? I have something of yours...
Made it out late afternoon today. Felt good to be back on skis, albeit a bit scratchy. Gun zones where it was drifting back across the the trail were pretty nice.
Curious, when did the vill start doing snowmaking? It seems to me if they didn’t have that option in the cards, there’s no way they could have anything open right now. What’s the latest opening date you remember?
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I'm 85 % certain snowmaking was first installed up lower gros ventre in summer of 90 or 91. Just got replaced a coupla years ago.
That first year, 1990 was bony to start so we drove skiers up the tram to the summit or to tower3. Downloading at T3 or ski down to the waiting pickup truck below where Teton lift base is now. It was a party in the back of that rig for that slow bumpy ride down.
Union pass was a ski run to the base until 1988, then a poma that would break, so they'd get ole Wes Kwieczin to drive the pickup truck full of skiers up that pitch. Then they installed the quad in 2000.
Also, bitd, when we opened the top early, it was often like the ghee is now. Deeper and softer. But gnarly dangerous.
worst core shots ive ever received have been early season at the ghee.Quote:
Originally Posted by Djongo Unchained
Paging CMartin348...
Holla at me re: avy canister.
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Jesus, man. The new marketing junkshow is really full of some BS. The rationales being tossed around for selling first tracks and various other JHMR jackassery are pretty tone deaf and plainly from the new marketing kid who doesn't know shit from Shinola about that mountain.
But over in the stokezone, I gotta say, going about 50 yesterday on the newish M6's was a blast.
And such a sweet finish sesh with lindenle and our bud. Thanks for loading, btw. Forgot to say that yesterday.
^I haven't been keeping up, but they're selling first tram or lift tickets for an extra fee?!
Oh yeah… it’s a whole curated experience. FlameQuote:
Originally Posted by jackstraw
suits and all. At least their waffles will be well toasted. Fuckin’ waffle eaters!
JFC. Part of me would luv to see the whole ski corp world fail, but the deuchebags would be fine and all the normal employees would get fucked. This whole situation sucks and I'm not sure how it's sustainable.
He gets it.Quote:
Originally Posted by singlecross
https://buckrail.com/jhmr-to-sell-new-early-access-pass
Not life altering but it still sucks. Not having completely sold out, in 2025, is great. But these new guys may not give 2 fucks about the JH world, other than the bottom line. They're def bottom line kinda guys.
Snowbird has black passes and those guys get first tracks for an hour 8-9am on some days when it's safe, and they get to skip tram and lift lines all day, every day, and a private locker room, parking and more. That might not go over well in JH, ha, but it sounds like this is the start.
@muted - how many? estimate here is between 50-100.
Which means even if the upper mountain isn't open yet, if they all go that way, there could be an almost full maze upon arrival of first public skiers at Thunder.
Rumor is 50-100+. You take a friend with you though. So it might be 50 members with room for 50 friends on top? No regular lowly season pass holder seems to know exactly how it works including me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Djongo Unchained
Hello stokemaster! You have a wicked good memory! Whoa, lost track of time. I am sidelined with a stress fracture, but hope to get out with y'all sometime in January/when proper winter begins! Let me see if I still have your digits, but I will be over in Jackson for work a few times in the next couple weeks, so I can swing by or pick it up at the next get together!Quote:
Originally Posted by Djongo Unchained
Hope you're ready for another great winter!
1/2 a mil. is not chump change.
How many of these folks are there that can actually ski?
He added, “I think someone paying for this package is looking for the ease of a comfortable start to their day and more convenience than chasing first tracks down Thunder bumps.
Yeah. All the locals are headed down Thunder on a pow day.
What a douche that doesn’t understand the mountain.
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Originally Posted by Djongo Unchained
I got first tracks of the season down Thunder one year. I don't even remember how it happened, but I'll never forget the turns.Quote:
Originally Posted by Core Shot
I really don't think those $10K-ers are going to be a problem. At best they get a 5-6 minute head start and I bet most of them squander all of it trying to get from Casper to Thunder. And then they'll explode on Egg Cartons and all the hard cores will breeze right by.
I'm so over the powder day morning frenzy anyway. I don't even try anymore. Last season my wife and I would drive over early enough to make sure we got a parking spot, then go get a coffee from Overview and sit in the car until the mountain opened. We still found some good turns.
In a deep cycle thunder is sweet. But the asshat said Thunder bumpsQuote:
Originally Posted by The Suit
If Thunder is bumped I’m taking Thunder woods or Gannett or mushrooms or grand woods or goldminers.
Not to mention the race is to get to the couch.
But yeah. The race sucks these days. I hate big dumps and I can not lie. Sleeper days are so much more enjoyable.
Although I have had a few great early ups maching down groomers knee to waist. That shit is insane.
There are an uncommonly high percentage of truly expert lines on expert terrain covered in 1-3 feet of insanely good leeward wind deposition powder.
On any given pow day, from the far drift, ship's prow or the Hobacks top to bottom untracked, all the way over to Tand A, Moran face and Saratoga, there's a finite set of perfect expert runs.
They are the commodity of this place.
Selling them to a handful of people instead of everyone equally is in poor form and doesn't represent the Jackson way.
We're the Equality State, dammit.
It's already challenging enough to get ahead of all of the ski schoolers nowadays. They've multiplied that leapfrogging program a shitton in the last 5 years.
Saying it's just another handful and they won't be in our way for long don't cut it anymore. Far too many shite skiers poised to fuck the goods before the best skiers can experience it.
it's a gotdam tragical shame to see the cooler already full of ski school fuckery from the first public tram windows.
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CMartin - yes, my elephantine memory has a direct physiological connection to a lifetime of ganja praising.
anytime's a good time, say when. Swing by and have a beer or...
Riverton Bowl, Fuck the World.Quote:
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Mickey’s going to keep flogging that pony till it’s got nothing left to give.Quote:
Originally Posted by Core Shot
^^^ How to tell your ski area has become a ski "Resort".:fmicon:
I am currently rocking a nice one from last Saturday on my daily drivers.Quote:
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Sublette hype video. Just started it, seems to be a good mix of history and construction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyoO_eLTndk
Came to post that^^^. Fascinating video!
Sublette. The Quad. The Couch.
Home, Sweet Home. I bet I have 10,000 laps on that chair. Even fell out of it once.
Nice, bringing the stoke back...that's a good vid. Better than the usual.
Lotsa friends in there. Rob H lives about 5 houses down. He's a good egg and truly invested in that mountain. JJ's a solid JHSP bro-gal.
Great shots of peeps skiing the shots. Alas, the new tower above Nightmare pretty much complicates the in run. First thing I noticed this summer when the towers went in.
gonna be oddball going up clockwise. and faster, much faster. and running in higher wind, yay!
The Sublette Salute...
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Lindenle and I saw a sweet Ermine racing across the flats below the AV chair yesterday. Hauling ass beneath the snow and porpoising up for directions. Pretty rad.
Cool video.
Watching the crawler excavator was impressive and scary.
The depth of the snow from the slide above East ridge was impressive. I guess that’s a fair reason to lower the top station.
The extra heavy chairs are a good idea. Been there. Swinging and waiting for a restart. And saluting.
Will always be the Couch for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Djongo Unchained
First thing I wondered was how is this going to effect Nightmare. Oh well. I always liked the little S turn line thru too.
Nice vid about Sublette. I know Palisades Tahoe and Kirkwood have some chairs with great terrain, but Sublette may have the best terrain of any 4 pack chair in the US.
The crawler excavator was cool- I had no idea those existed.
This is currently the worst start to the season for JHMR since 1976 in terms of snow depth and the second worst in recorded history. Only 1976 was worse.
In other news, TCISAR Avalanche Night is tonight at Teton High School- https://www.tcisar.org/events/2024/1...ght-and-raffle
I'm having some deja vu here. Didn't you point out the slow start we had last time? This is the stokezone man.
And yeh, Sublette ridge top to bottom in deep pow is unparallelled. A wind loaded ridgeline with a pronounced leeward side and a hella wind tunnel from Pucker face through Flip point...Over 4k vert of genuine expert terrain. The easy parts are where ya rest and relax cuz game on shortly for another shitton of pow turns and blower splashes.
East ridge to Pepi's run to lower Sublette Ridge. $$$$$$$$$$
@Jackstraw -
a pic from summer of the new tower by Nightmare:
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Ain't that a bitch?