Tonight's forecast looks good for tomorrow. But as you know, we'll be holding snow into the weekend.
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Tonight's forecast looks good for tomorrow. But as you know, we'll be holding snow into the weekend.
Mike, you get out today? Is it staying soft? I imagine the low temps are helping...
today was amazing
have funz tomorrow
DR was stellar yesterday. Tbar all day. Fresh boot deep lines in the shots all day!
^^^
and it's still good...
snow holding up quite well for how long we've gone w/o a storm
We got Owen out on his new tele gear yesterday!
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Nice Mike! How'd he do?
Did DR get rained on or did you get some dust?
I don't know.
It's my first proper day off since Dec 18.
Catching up on chores and errands and taking Owen's Grammy out to lunch.
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He did great Jeff. A few runs on them in the morning. We didn't even really try to teach him anything. He just skied around on it parallelamark style. Tried to drop a knee here and there, but he's so little he has trouble flexing the boot. And the boots are too big. Smaller liners in too big of shells. He was solid on them, but swapped to his fixed heel gear after a few runs. He likes the idea of it and has been bugging us to try. I figured it would be something fun and new for him getting back on snow after being sick for so long.
http://www.mymotherlode.com/news/loc...Investors.html
January 23, 2013 12:47 pm
B.J. Hansen, MML News Director
Bear Valley Resort has cleared the main environmental hurdles required for its long planned renovation and expansion.
A new ownership group took over the resort in 2005 and started work on a Master Plan for the ski area and surrounding property. Plans call for a lift to connect the village to the ski area, new mountaintop dining, trail improvements, 300 condominiums, and a new lodge. The Alpine County Supervisors have approved the Environmental Impact Report for the Master Plan, and the Environmental Assessment for the ski resort.
Resort Spokesperson Rosie Sundell says the next step is the "investment cycle.""This is where we go out and bring in the right group of investors to take this through," says Sundell. "When we started this in 2005 the economy was in a very different place, so its' hard to say how many dollars it will be. We'll spend the next six months, to a year, finding the group that is going to take us forward."
Greg Finch, Managing partner of Bear Valley Resorts adds, "We're quite confident that we will secure funding for the expansion. Bear Valley represents one of the last great development opportunities in the Sierra."
Bear Valley, located on Highway 4, has 1,680 acres of varied terrain, and more than 70 trails.
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Owen FTW!
Love the look on his face! Go Owen!
DR had big winds from the E-NE today. We had a wind hold on Chair8 for a bit around noon. We ended up closing it early.
Most of the mtn was unaffected by wind, but ridge top and canyon got pounded.
Conditions are excellent, especially considering how long it's been since we got new snow.
I met this guy on the hill today.
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Hank Smith age 80 - leather boots etc...
He was hanging out with an injured person waiting for me to arrive.
A new friend.
As rad as rad gets.
Hank was today's winner.
I don't ever recall chairs being on wind hold at Dodge. In fact I didn't know what wind hold was until I started working for another ski resort.Quote:
Originally Posted by telemike
Race at DR this weekend!
Kids from Dodge Ridge, Bear Valley, Badger Pass and China Peak will be competing in the Ryan Lavagnino Classic GS on Saturday and Sunday.
Come watch Owen and the rest of the Dodge Ridge rockers.
Skied DR over the weekend. I didn't have high hopes, but was pleasantly surprised. Everyone kept telling me that it want bad on the groomers, which proved true. But with a bit of cloud cover, the off piste stuff softened nicely, and skied well.
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Young Owen 1st place Under 8!
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davieboot - met your dad today - very glad he introduced himself - I hadn't made the connection - we owe a lot to him and your mom for this race team
Nice form. Congratulations.Quote:
Originally Posted by telemike
Thanks! 1st again today!
Yeah, he told me you guys met. He's a great guy and great skier. That race team has a pretty good history of producing good skiers over the years, especially getting kids get hooked on skiing their entire lives rather than burn out.Quote:
Originally Posted by telemike
A small posse of us (between 5 and 8) are heading to BV on Friday 2/22 and skiing there Sat 23 & Sun 24. Staying at the Resort. We're celebrating the Birthday of ShadeGardener, and BV is a favorite place of hers.
We're hoping to find some discount on tix, if anyone has any suggestions?
Thank You Maggots.
If nothing else comes up, BV sells a 2-day pass at the ticket window for $110. Alternately, if you have a snowbomb card, you can print one free voucher good on Sunday. I think passholders can get one guest $10 off any day, which is the same you can do yourself at Sports Basement.Quote:
Originally Posted by TurxSki
working on it....
BV tomorrow with young Owen and his cousin from RI
Turx
Looks like I have tickets for both you and Cinders for both days.
Some dude taking advantage of the low snow. Old Priest Grade!
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Low snow is right. More at my house than at DR.
Thanx LsL.
Thanx Mike. That is totally excellent!
Heading down tomorrow. Hoping to have a blast although we realize y'all didn't get much from the last "storm".
Our buddy with the mystery illness (the_immaculateDeception) is gonna try & come (if he's feeling good) & see how the altitude affects him. He's gonna bring his ski's just in case...it would be his first time in 2 or 3 yrs I think.
Corn would make a change from Hardpack. Are the chances good for some softening?
...we'll find out I guess...Any advice on eating & drinking (Pizza place & Coffee shop at the resort I'm told) or places we really should take a look at? Skiing or otherwise?
Rode first days at BV ever this w/e, and we couldn't believe the possibilities. Is the Grizzly Bowl as unreal as it would appear to be on a pow day? Might have to invest a season getting to know that place...especially if there are never lines there as all the locs were sayin.
I have always maintained that when Grizz is good, there is nothing better in the Sierra.
Griz is low tide right now. BV not currently at it's best but you kids will have teh funz
Yeah, I got four month old twins...and they loved BV. Dad loved the looks of Grizz...and is looking forward to plumbing it next season. Frankly, I was stunned I had never heard of this terrain...
I'm at China Peak awaiting awards for today's race.
Krystal Kartwright reports that at Dodge "everything softened and it was a powdery wonderland."
Had a good couple of days at China peak. Saw all the racer kids ripping it up. As usual all of the advanced terrain was untouched. Lots of boulder hopping fun.
CP was fun!
Owen was 3rd Sat and 5th Sun. And he lost his 2nd tooth.
DRSP's message to all you Harlem Shakers...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vs0mRyazZM&feature=share&list=UUFkY1Agp9R BvWCVL9UCgBig
still some fantastic snow out in the world near DR today - hiked out towards Burst Rock and skied back in to Chair 8, then rolled out the back of the patrol shack and skied the PBR Forest and down to Aspen Mdw and hiked back up to Chair 2 and out - a wonderful morning tour - great cold snow on north facing sun protected slopes
How could you tell? No really?Quote:
Originally Posted by meter-man
It was hella foggy on Saturday. Ok it was patchy, and the sun poked out around lunchtime, but we were in white-out a lot. (My 1st time there too.)
It's the same lift, but we actually found "the goods" over in Snow Valley.
Drop in the gate, keep close to the boundary on your right (Hari-Kari closed) and just keep heading down, with the big rock on your left. Noice!
On Sunday, with no fog, we could see there was a whole bunch of wind-buff-blower on the right as the rope ends where you come in. Excellent!
And I went over (skiers right) past the main route down to find a nice corn shot where it starts to get too rocky.
We tried Grizzly a few times. Not as good. Way more of an open bowl so more sun affected.
Less blower, way more crusty, a lot more bumps.
On Sunday it started to soften over there. Skied one chute down by the lift, over on lookers right, fuck me was it deep and heavy where it had loaded on the edge. Nearly broke my legs shaping my turns.
We also sessioned Spyglass(?) on the Express lift. Just across the skiers left boundary there was soft Pow-Der and some truly artistic rock formations to pick your way through. Ok there wasn't much to them, a few turns, and head to the lift, but knee deep untracked baby!!
Got some nice turns around Porridge Bowl on the frontside too.
Had a bit of a mishap...managed to ski into a boundary rope at full speed in a tuck, heading into the Spyglass gate. Took my goggles off, cut/burned my eyebrows, caught under my helmet brim, made a noise like running a plectrum down a guitar string, and flipped me backwards.
If I was looking for excuses, I'd say it's a pity there wasn't a bit of dangling rope/ribbon hanging on the rope so you could spot it easily.
And if Cinders hadn't been right next to me (could see her ski-tips in my peripheral - we were all keeping our speed for the traverse) I would have gone in the same place as all the other times. But hey, I survived.
Low tide for sure (lotsa bare spots on Village Side skiing back to the condo) but good snow conditions, considering.
Thank You for the Hook Up TeleMike - You da Maggot!
( The_immaculateDeception wasn't feeling well enough to come in the end. So just us: Turxey, Cinders, Tini, Hobbit, Shade Gardener & Son of Shade )
Glad you had fun. Happy to help.
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FKNowen!