Silvy Word got out….
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Wow. Ski week suckage
I don't think Monday was a blackout day.
I also don't think school districts have changed much in the BA. It's just way more people with ski passes, and most of them on epic or ikon.
It has made KW consistently more busy on the weekends. Seems like way fewer people eating with not Bubs opening at like 2pm and Off The Wall empty.
But way more people more often and a significant drop in basic ski etiquette. I think that is the worst part of it.
When my kid was little we would take them out for the week (my wife's school is off, but not my kid's) and drive to Mammoth because it is way quieter this week than Tahoe.
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Tue/Wed/Thur were good ski days with not a lot of peeps on the mountain. I was shocked how many peeps were skiing yesterday at Alpine. Then, I went this morning with a plan to beat the crowds but ran into that long ass line at Silvy at the end and that is when I hung it up. I guess they were only running 2 per chair due to some power issues on Silvy....always something it seems with that zone. I skied down Mountain Meadow to Sunnyside and every lift was jam packed with people waiting (Mountain Meadow, Big Blue, etc). It is the first weekend after the Presidents Day blackout weekend too.
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Originally Posted by Ottime
We did our part and skipped Tahoe for the holiday weekend; skied south Lassen area Sun/Mon and had a good time, though visibility was such that we never saw the mountain (and I never saw a gully that I suddenly plunged into while thinking that I was cruising along some gentle flats, fortunately no injury though for a few moments I wasn't so sure).Quote:
Tue/Wed/Thur were good ski days with not a lot of peeps on the mountain
Really, if ski crowds were reasonable at Palisades Fucking Tahoe right smack in the middle of "Ski Week" and right after some great snow accumulation, I'm not inclined to think you locals have a lot to complain about (not about that in particular anyway; yeah, not enough parking for backcountry gems, sure, let's complain away). Kind of implies that it'll be mellow all next week as well (when I'll be up there), and beyond.
We were planning to ski Silvy this coming Monday. Then I went and broke my thumb. Down for at least two weeks.
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Silvy = low supply/high demand...
Plus Oregon Trail and Land Bridge groomed. These are crimes against nature, or against humanity, or against god--not sure which. Maybe all of them.
Bummer about the lines on Silvy but KT was dead and skied great from 8:45-4:30. N was pow or chalk, E was proto-corn and springy and then it was the W-facing goodness in the afternoon. Zero lines except 12–2.
And…I left Glenshire at 7:30 and there was zero traffic. In the lot by 7:55.
And then zero traffic from PTOV back to Truckee at 5:30.
Maybe all the ski-weekers were at SUGAR BOWL! [emoji1787] bwahahahahaha
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I’m confused as to how your thumb can prevent you from skiing.
Showed up at Alpine at noon on Thursday and 1 on Friday and parked against the snow next to subway lift both days. Hiked with the dog and rode lifts (no lines) on Thursday and just hiked on Friday due to lack of time. Skied low angle pow off Chickadee ridge today. Traffic on the roads or slopes was never an issue.
The restaurant was way busier than last year despite no Homewood
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OG, you're starting to sound grumpy like me. Ski week is funny. I can't believe it was somehow voted down by TTUSD, but the bay kids get it. It just doesn't feel right.
Crowds were on/off last week. When I showed up for work on weds (noon) I had to park out by Olympic Boot Works. Crowds on the mountain were mellow-ish. Kinda like an average weekend. Mostly bad skiers so we had the steep stuff to ourselves, even Silvy.
Props to PT for turning Silvy into a mythical zone by never opening it. The quantity of goons back there is pretty unrivaled. I watched a female skier shimmy/slide on her side all the way down chairline. Another guy asked me the easiest way down right after he dropped into gate two where the signage is quite obvious. There is obviously great skiing back there, but it is probably the easiest spot on the mountain to get yourself into a bad spot if you are clueless.
Skiing was super fun last week, but I'm ready for a couple of cold, deep days.
It's not so much the skiing with the thumb but the packing and driving that feels tedious. And putting on the boots with one hand. I know it's no excuse but gonna give it a few weeks.
I skied 90 minutes right after it happened. Skiing so you are 99.99% sure you are not going to fall on your thumb is way less exciting than skiing full bore. So. I'll wait a bit. And it looks a little windy tomorrow. Excuses.
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So far this precip has been the white, frozen kind at KW this AM, but it's really cutting it close. Yesterday was fantastic, esp on anything above 9k' and North facing. Let's hope it stays that way.
My kid had a ski race at Rose yesterday. Spitting rain and blowing at Winters Lodge at 7:45am. Snow was soft from the start and continued on that path until we bailed around 1pm. Didn't ski the chutes unfortunately, so no report there, but coverage looked great.
Signal Pk, Sat. Had the place to myself other than two coyotes sprinting across the ridge near the top. Also noted some very large bear tracks traversing the south face leading to a cedar tree mauled of a bunch bark. Impressive claw marks on the tree. NW bowl from the lookout was variable edgeable crust. Meh. S face from the lookout was sweet corn for the first 1,200 vt. Then got progressively more punchy down to the road, but no timber bashing necessary.
N side of Castle Sun. The chutes and n. face skied nicely with some soft toe deep supportable snow. The n. face had been schralped by snowmobilers but still able to decsend without crossing tracks. A few folk back there, but was pretty quiet in the late afternoon other than a group of 4 highmarking snowmobilers buzzing me in the chute while I was skinning up to get back to the s. side. WTF. S. side was soft and edgeable.
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Holy shit when did Black Crows adopt DPS’ pricing scheme?
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lol. Exactly what I was thinking. Like a third more than Atomics. Well out of my range.
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Guess that explains why I saw so many black crows in A$pen