Broken Arrow closed just as I got to it about noonish.Quote:
Originally Posted by basom
I was on KT and Headwall. It was good but pretty scarred up. I'm not complaining.
Tomorrow I'll be there for more.
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Broken Arrow closed just as I got to it about noonish.Quote:
Originally Posted by basom
I was on KT and Headwall. It was good but pretty scarred up. I'm not complaining.
Tomorrow I'll be there for more.
Stoked to see some gnarly snow coming in through the spur. The roads were amazingly clear driving all the way into K'wood.
Time to get some shut eye and do some skiing tomorrow. This is going to be fuckin fun, baybee.
I was on the traverse and only saw the avy cloud. Glad you escaped unharmed.Quote:
Originally Posted by mishap
go git it walter!!! tallacs always a minefield down low these days and i'll bet everything above sweat hill is $$$$. doooooo it.
thanx for the kind wrds all. i'm gonna suck it up and hit my favorite line this am and then recoup while this storm unloads for the next couple days.
I'm looking towards tmmrow since I had already promised the GF I would take her to "ghostrider"? She is holding me to it this afternoon. Grrrr. I hope this flick doesn't turn me soy.
isn't he just precious?Quote:
Originally Posted by runethechamp
1. Squaw was fine today and Broken Arrow was exceptional. KT still had the goods.
2. My younger 12 year old son's first time on Broken Arrow. He was stoked as was I. He converted from snowboarding last spring.
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3. I remounted my SV back 1cm and I skied like ass today. Worst was my last run on KT in flat light down skier's right of the Nose Chutes. Just total ass right under the chair with some friendly onlookers saying something. I couldn't make out the words and ignorance probably was bliss. :nonono2:
Nice Jim....that is cool your son converted....TO skiing!!! :yourock:
Thanks for the pics....today was a work day for me (both home shit and now AT work)......but tomorrow I am headed to Squaw for the storm day.....VERY STOKED!!!!
Nah, I was just off my mark today and the remount of the Vicous threw me off a bit until I get used to them. I think tomorrow will be a Red Dog + KT only day for sure. Depending on the roads I might wussy out and hit Rose which is less than 15 minutes from my door when roads are good. Friday it took me 2 hours to get to Squaw due a car accident on the two lane highway and the Tahoe City congestion.Quote:
Originally Posted by Huckwheat
But for Tahoe Firing, it's looking sooooo good.....I like the words "Sierra Event":
SNOWFALLTOTALS OF 18 TO 30 INCHES ARE EXPECTED ABOVE 7000 FEET...WITH 8 TO 16 INCHES AT LAKE LEVEL BEFORE THE SNOW TAPERS TO SHOWERS BY SUNDAY EVENING.
ANOTHER WINTER STORM MAY BRING MORE HEAVY SNOW AND WINDY
CONDITIONS FROM MONDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING. ADDITIONAL SNOWFALL OF 2 FEET OR MORE IS POSSIBLE ABOVE 7000 FEET WITH A FOOT OR MORE POSSIBLE AT LAKE LEVEL WITH THIS STORM.
...THE MONDAY-TUESDAY SIERRA EVENT SHOULD EASILY RESULT IN 2 TO 3 FEET WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR SOME 4-5 FOOT REPORTS.
Ouch....I am not going to be scared off though (Rose is only about 20 minutes from my door now....I moved to Washoe Valley). I am not getting that many days recently (Mrs.Huckwheat is expecting....and we have been going XC :p )......so when I have the full day......gotta go to the mothership!!! :D Maybe I will still see ya....Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim S
I was super lucky. I think about 3 people got tagged, but it was such mayhem that everyone got out of the debris and bolted for the powder at hand. Determination for sure, myself was unlucky and lost my ski sticking out of the snow 50 yards up. I guess a few people saw it from above though. It hit me from the side, at first it felt like someone skied into me. Super lucky and thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by powpig
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Originally Posted by Huckwheat
Congrats.:D
and another!Quote:
Originally Posted by onehotchili
lets meet up tomarrow and actually ski together.Quote:
Originally Posted by Huckwheat
i'll be there bell to bell.
A few shots from the last 3 days. By Wednesday every lake level line should be good to go!
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Checking in from Kirkweird.
Nuking and puking outside, lots of winds - wind loaded runs will be the name of the game tomorrow. Their forecast is calling for 12-18 tonight and 10-15 tomorrow.
The stoke is on.
:biggrin: ohhhhhh yeaaaahhhhh!!!! taking the day off to rest my back and then its really gonna be a struggle to get any work done this week. for the 1st time this year, the nws isn't even listing any snow levels which means snow down to the valley floors i think. hopefully the carson valley actually gets some snow and then the real big lines will be in shape. that heave pass may have not been such a bad idea after all.
nice pics joe. in that last one buddy is barely recognizable.
i dont think im going to make it to class until wednesday at the earliestQuote:
SNOW WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE LAKE TAHOE BASIN THROUGH LATE MONDAY NIGHT WITH HEAVY SNOW AT TIMES. OVERALL SNOWFALL TOTALS OF 3 TO 6 FEET ARE EXPECTED ABOVE 7000 FEET
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Originally Posted by gimpy
haha, no shit, huh? after this storm avalanche bowl is gonna be money! If kirkwood doesn't open on wed, I will probably simply lap that up!
:eek: high avy advisory listed on mainstream forecasts. worries were validated w/ the advisory as last night before the snow really started falling there was a bit of an ice/graupel storm. now this graupel layer is causing instabilities and besides that we're starting to get an upside down snowpack w/ that low density snow now being covered snow w/ a moisture content of 9-11%. gonna be a bit till its copacetic to ski the steep and deep outside the resorts.
It is Faceshots galore but only stagecoach and boulder are turning today. Almost 2 feet here on stagecoach so far this morn. Had to take a breather in the truck. Effin winds blowin galore too. No lift line. 20F at base.
Lake level lines are good to go huh? So who's gonna go get 7,000 vert on mt rose and ski to in and out burger?
So - who else had to turn back at carson spur this morning?
Rose report this AM called for Lakeview only with Slide & NW on windhold. Got up there without too much trouble and in the Lakeview line at 8:45. Shortly thereafter NW began to spin and patrol headed up. Another guy in the LV line said a Suburban had t-boned a NHP car on his way up and they closed 431 right behind him. NW & Zephyr opened about 9:45 and there couldn't have been more than 100 people there and probably a whole lot less. Lotsa non-stop laps til the wind picked up again and they closed up NW & Zephyr a bit after 1. Snow was windpacked in places but was money in the trees. Met MTT in the NW line while waiting to open, was on his new 179 Bros, me on the 1st edition 188 Bros. Considering most of Tahoe seems to be on windhold today, looks like I scored!
when he says lake level, i believe he's talking bout tahoe, not washoe;) . though your idea may just happen as wellQuote:
Originally Posted by Lane Meyer
Serge I am on the Kirkwood side of the spur and I heard that roads are closed in both directions for the night.
Great conditions today, fresh pow, but the high winds sucked and kept us out of the stuff on top. All the lower stuff was fresh and made for some creative riding.
Please God, let Monday settle wind wise.
Squaw was deep and fun....despite a lack of lifts. Got a bunch of Red Dog in the AM, then went down to Far East, and finally spent the remainder of the day on Expedition/Searchlight (not sure if I have ever ridden that chair before). You could traverse under the fingers, and hit some trees.
The driving around N.Tahoe is madness.....no one is going anywhere.....total parking lots. Took me two hours from Squaw to South Reno over Rose.....not too bad that way.
Pics and mini TR later on.
Ditto. Red Dog was hit by myself, Corky and Mrs. Corky and my younger son; the older son set off with his friends. It was good and deep.
My house to Squaw: 2 hours
Squaw back to my house: 3 hours
I got home and had enough snow to huck from the street over two rock walls and onto my driveway: video to follow. No bull.
don't miss that about tahoe storm days - wind hold. a bummer of a reality up there. that and the weekend traffic. took my friends 4 hours from tahoe city to truckee. that's pure comedy.
What a weekend! Knee-deep at the wood on Sat. (Zippy, I met your mom in the lift line) Thigh-deep at Rose today. Winter has begun.
Stoke Stoke Stoke
Not the case at Sierra at Tahoe. Probably one of the rare days when it's the best spot in South Lake Tahoe (if not all of Tahoe). Total raging winds and blizzard conditions from bell to bell, but Grandview never stopped turning. There are tons of trees on that mountain with a good, steep enough, fall line to keep the pow protected and many stashes untracked. Being we are still on the low side for base, the boulders are still big and it's pillow city in those trees. Now that the kids are skiing fast in the pow, it's tons of fun. However, even in the protected zones those winds packed down the upper mountain pow in the afternoon. Still soft, but no longer as deep. Lower well protected (NE aspect) were still $$$$. If it's storming tomorrow, that's where I'd head back to.Quote:
Originally Posted by greenmachine
Zippy called to tell me he is stuck at Kirkwood tonight (:fuckyou:), but let me know it was epic today with only chair 5 running at half speed (:D). He said he's really trying to get home cause he doesn't think they'll even be running chair #6 tomorrow. But.....if the Heave is able to run the gondola tomorrow, it's going to be 2500' of choking fun all the way down to the office at lunch time!
Folks, Tuesday and/or Wednesday are shaping up for Day(s) of the Year
Yeah..a few of us made the call to head to Sierra at Tahoe today too. good good shit. waist deep and untracked on the steeper bits above the Avy Bowl rock...;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Sierra Cement
the next few days will be exciting to watch.
I was there today and I concur. The pillows in the trees were oh so big and fluffy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sierra Cement
If zIPPY is right about kirkwood, then I will be at Sierra tomorrow as well. (oh but please let him be wrong)
yeah a few of us made the right call. :cool: great running in to you and 'woo this afternoon and hitting some of those pillowy lines.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyrone Shoelaces
looks like i'm hitting SAT tomorrow morning as well. with the 8 inches of fresh and the wind deposit, it should be reasonably sick.
ja -- did you make it into avy bowl today???? if so, is it ready to go (the top half anyway) yet??? if not yet then it oughtta be by tuesday i'm hoping.
K'wood had 5 and 11 open on Sunday. The snow is letting up but it is still blowin outside.
I'd agree that 6 is unlikely tomorrow, shit.
We'll get out and ski in the morning and then pack up and head home provided the spur opens up.
Well.
Kirkwood was definitely good today - all runs off 5 and 11 were fun to muck about in. Winds weren't too bad - they filled in tracks.
Now, the story.
I was one of the lucky few that managed to get out to 88E at 2:30pm after hearing a bird tell me that Caltrans was going to open 88E for a short window of time, so we could crash in South Lake or take the 50 home, since the 88W was shuttled for the night, indefinitely, and Kirkwood Lodging was giving us no love (they can eat it).
So, we get out to the 88W gate at Carson Pass, expecting to be passed through at 3pm, as the little bird said, but no.. Caltrans started pushing people through at 5pm, and then did a "shift change", where the next shift showed up at 8pm, and we finally got through to South Lake. Pretty bad vis too. It's not the blizzard or driving on Carson Pass that bothered me, it was sitting in the car for 6 and a half hours that was lame. Caltrans wasn't telling us anything either - the jackass sat in his big orange truck and refused to get out when we walked a mile to ask him what the plan was. Caltrans, in all their heroic work, can suck it for this one. A few people ran out of gas as well, and with no cell coverage in the area, they were in a bit of a hole.
Posting from the Holiday Inn in South Lake - thinking about doing some turns at the Heave tomorrow - it's stopped snowing and winds have calmed down.
what was up with the heli at k-wood on saturday? did someone get hurt badly?
That is the major shits sitting in line waiting for those ignert bastards in the orange trucks to give the ok. I heard the company line at the front desk when I was walking by, about lodging being booked up, that sucks too.
I'm s'posed to be at work on Tuesday, but if we keep getting hammered here at K'wood, I will be forced to ski till the roads open.
These high winds have been nasty shit this season, but it's still good snow!
I never heard what was going on with the heli, I heard the ambulance and a little later the heli, then the heli came back around.