Forecast down to 15.5' now - still would be the most since 1997 (and enough to flood much of the valley floor). Daughter is supposed to take a school trip there in a few weeks, hope they're open.Quote:
Originally Posted by SchralphMacchio
Forecast down to 15.5' now - still would be the most since 1997 (and enough to flood much of the valley floor). Daughter is supposed to take a school trip there in a few weeks, hope they're open.Quote:
Originally Posted by SchralphMacchio
I know. I'm checking every few hours because I'm supposed to get married there in April, hah! In 1997 they were closed for 2+ months after the flood, and re-opened with minimal services until a massive ton of repair work was done. So much park employee housing and guest lodging was lost during that event. Any major flood would have devastating impacts for the rest of the year.Quote:
Originally Posted by teledad
I'm really glad the current forecast has rain shutting off early Monday ... I keep hoping for a shift in pressure, air temps, or something that will keep driving the QPF & flood stage forecast down.
Also that means I might be able to go skiing this weekend without getting trapped on Sunday :)
We were on the bridge during the last flood New Years Day 2005? Before I went digital as I have no pictures on my computer. Go experience it. The water was close to the top of the arch. 60 foot long burned out tree trucks running the rapids. The bridge was swaying like crazy. We have friends in Cool and spent the holidays with them.Still remember it like it was yesterday.Quote:
Originally Posted by SchralphMacchio
The QPF for the Sierras/Lassen/Shasta is absolutely mental. I've never seen anything like it. The 1997 floods wreaked havoc around my hometown (Trinity Co.), so this may get interesting. My mom fly's out today to visit us for four days. Fingers crossed that the roads and bridges are still intact when she tries to get home on Tuesday.
Did 1 lap on Red Dog and reinjured my back worse than before (on IR until post AR event). Snow was amazing but super scary upside down. Be VERY conservative in the backcountry. Have fun tomorrow!
About the AR event. My non scientific opinion is that it could never be close to '97 just for the simple fact that we had 3x's more snow (at least) down low before that AR event than this one. I vividly remember 5-6' berms at my house on Donner Lake. In a few days 100% of the snow was gone.
I guess this is what it looks like when everything at Squaw is delayed and everyone heads to Alpine? What a fucking line...
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Nah that looks bomber, I'd throw a screw and some ice tools into it. :biggrin:Quote:
Originally Posted by Tahoe timWatch that hang fire!Quote:
Originally Posted by AKbruin
Maybe part of their plan to rename summit KTeast?
Exactly. We had 3-4 feet in Prosser.Quote:
Originally Posted by BGnight
Protect Our Winters totally ripped us off...
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Heavy upside down powder at Northstar. Winds must have been nuts because there was even wind effected snow in the trees at the top. Being Northstar there were plenty of freshies. I skied heavy powder until my out of shape body gave out.
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PSA: throwing snowballs at the liftie bc you're mad he can't open the Funi yet makes you a bad guy
Well these are certainly some "interesting" control results - looks like Patrol almost took out Squaw One bombing the Headwall:
https://www.facebook.com/javiravest/...4055016691073/
I lived at the top of kingsbury at the time and there was so much snow and it was so light i could jump in and be standing tall with my head submerged. Then came the rainsQuote:
Originally Posted by BGnight
It looks like there was a skier-caused avy on Fireplug today. (I'm guessing it was Fireplug by the location of the photo.) I wouldn't have skied it in these conditions, but be safe out there, folks.
Heal up, BG!
The massive icicle on my house is an annual feature. It can get gnarly but it's pretty safe. I just noticed, however, that I somehow neglected to board up the laundry room window, which could be trouble if the Sunday predictions are accurate.
But it's still cool to bombard the jackasses who ride Silverado in ones and twos on powder days with long lift lines, right?Quote:
Originally Posted by stanmarsh
Yeah that's still cool.Quote:
Originally Posted by FormerKnuckleDragger
Rose was fun. Didn't ski like 3-4' of fresh -- heavy snow, but mostly not wind-affected, except for some windlips & drifts on the main side.
Mini-review: finally skied my DPS Spoons today: 150mm under foot is probably too much ski in most conditions. But overkill is fun sometimes!
... and my apologies if you were any of the people in the lift line who I slid into, as I realized suddenly that skidding a Spoon sideways on groomed/scraped snow doesn't slow you down much at all.
https://twitter.com/WashoeSheriff/st...19124778192896
another slide in the rose backcountry?Quote:
All parties involved with the avalanche at the Mt Rose summit have been located and are ok.
I never thought there'd be a ski much bigger than Kuros. And having skied Kuros, never thought there'd be conditions that required more than 130 under foot. But today I learned...Quote:
Originally Posted by El Chupacabra
Well...I can't make it out today or tomorrow and it looks the kids JETS session at Kirkwood will be a washout on Sunday...so here's a vid from a few days before Xmas at Kirkwood, haha.
https://vimeo.com/198271471
^ forget the JETS session, the friggin road at the Spur or Silver Lake could be a washout on Sunday!!!
"Storm QPF Saturday through Monday ranges from ... 7 to 14 inches for the Western Plumas mountains and Sierra Nevada."
[QUOTE=AKbruin;4898352]It looks like there was a skier-caused avy on Fireplug today. (I'm guessing it was Fireplug by the location of the photo.) I wouldn't have skied it in these conditions, but be safe out there, folks.
Heal up, BG!
Yeah, no kidding. That NE face slides a lot! Maybe they were skinning back and got a little to high. The middle North Face would've been $$$ today.
From the news:
One male and female skier were skiing in the backcountry when an avalanche was triggered just before 12:15 p.m.
A spokesman with Mt. Rose Ski Tahoe told News 4-Fox 11 that the two victims were able to hike to the highway without assistance and that they didn't suffer major injuries.
Wouldn't be the first time.Quote:
Originally Posted by pipedream