I think every pass holder in the Puget Sound went to West today. Had my touring gear in the car and just kept driving to Silver Fir. People parked all the way past Commonwealth. Mostly rock free but many open creeks still.
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I think every pass holder in the Puget Sound went to West today. Had my touring gear in the car and just kept driving to Silver Fir. People parked all the way past Commonwealth. Mostly rock free but many open creeks still.
West parking was a shitshow but the mountain wasn’t too bad and the crowds left when it started snowing. Some open spots but the soft groomers were nice. Just lapped the greens with the little guy, need to get him out of the backseat.
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Love the kid stoke! Nice way to rock the PNW mag uniform. No need to ask for change, just look for the Dakine vest [emoji28]Quote:
Originally Posted by carlh
Correction... TuesdayQuote:
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any pictures of that skin track? That would be interesting to see. That’s steep. You go up the ridge?Quote:
Originally Posted by ey_allen
Pretty sure I’ve booted it.Quote:
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Hey dude.Quote:
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It is steep. I think I booted it but in the spring. Up the ridge that bounds Big Chief bowl on skier’s left. We used to lap double diamond. Remember that? I do.Quote:
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I think the usual route to the backside is up Daisy and Skid Road? At least that’s where I see most people goingQuote:
Originally Posted by wickstad
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Looks like Stevens opens on Tuesday.
Those that braved variable freezing levels this w/e: I saw Rex/FQ/GV spinning. Anyone venture off trail? How sharky are we talking? Contemplating a Tuesday leg stretcher
No pics, but yeah it’s steep. That’s the usual “quick” way to get to the backside early season. There is typically a track there, though usually I prefer going under Tye as I have shit skinning technique early season. Combined with shit skinning from everyone else that usually leads a beat up and slippery track (which was the case Saturday).Quote:
Originally Posted by wickstad
Don't worry about the backseat thing for a while. Just focus on having fun. Once he's bigger and heavier and can pressure a boot cuff it'll come around.
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Coverage is pretty good with a little caution, particularly once you're up a little higher (~~5500'). The main thing is going to be the breakable crust that set up yesterday, made for pretty awful off piste skiing. We were in the backcountry but heard the same thing about freshly opened terrain yesterday.Quote:
Originally Posted by Huskydoc
Crustal today until 11:00 was an Ice Station Zebra, frozen mist soup with 6" deep ice cast trenches and murdercrust off what little incredibly poorly done zamboni groom there was.
30 minutes of grooming the virtually unskiable frozen chop would have made a hell of a lot of difference.
By 11:00, the sun had worked a little edgability into the exposed snow with the Lucky Shot rollers getting decent. But I was dead by 1:00, not enough leg blasters or just fucking killer edging exercise today.
Lots of wet slides yesterday fed the frozen chickenheads debris fields today. They did not ski well.
W/O the Buster flake rating, I'm not sure exactly how meh it was at Xtal. Sometimes a picture isn't worth a thousand words or 3 or 4 flakes for that matter.
* at most
Got a taste of some of the pure fluff last Friday. We got another 1.5 feet of base-building wetness on top of that, I ain't complaining. This year early season is about patience or getting high in the warm and sunny windows that keep opening up.
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In VT we call that a creemeeQuote:
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I had to go check the Skintrack Stoke thread to make sure that last one got posted over there. Excellent.
Anyone make the Stevens opener today?
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This was opening day like 2016 or 2017. I know itks tough out there right now but this happens from time to time.
Thanks!Quote:
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