Possible restrictions on Rt. 88...

that's awesome. great TR. post some pics, eh?

i love squaw. way to git after history, boyz.

middle knuckle.



all time baby. all time. i still have a huge buzz.

Glad that you guys got through… sounds like an amazing trip.

Way to go fellas. Glad it all worked out.

that is so sweet! so glad ou guys rallied and hit the big storms! maybe road trip of the year (to date).

now, i am kicking myself for not going up last night to hit it today....after reading posts like this, seeing all the $, sweat, toil and effort peeps put in to hit a blower day in Tahoe...well, makes me feel spoiled and shamed for not hitting every storm....

Plan is to slay it tomorrow (providing I didn't totally screw up my call of Wed being "the day", and in fact, today becomes "the day" and they pop everything @ Alpine...)

But I digress...again, great TR, nice work lads!

Awesome TR!

That makes me sooo pumped for tomorrow at Mammy. Stoked that motivating and schlepping panned out for you guys!

You have to be thinking:
<hannibal smith> "I love it when a plan comes together"<hannibal smith>

Jealous...starting to seethe...

No, actually glad you guys got some. Watching all the Ta ho's get some I've come to accept, just not used to having the Boston crew rub my face in it too.

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12:20 am PST - Hour 11 - Finally landed, found AKP in baggage claim, picked up Expedition. The thing is sick. Leather interior, navigation system, back seats that recline, etc…but no tape deck, which is a chafe for iPod compatibility. Later find that Basom has an iTrip, but only his iPod will work...which means we will be forced to listen to They Might Be Giants and The Crash Test Dummies all trip. Pick Basom and Bill up in Oakland @ 2:45. They are looking autumn-harvest-steezariffic. Totally sickbird. On road at 2:50 am.

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bill and i show up at the oaktown airport. realize we have three hours to kill. stoke out the best we can.

http://www.angrywhelk.com/shinjuku/m...ip/airport.jpg

The Mobile Command Unit arrives. its go time.

gonzo: ringleader
http://www.angrywhelk.com/shinjuku/m...gonz%20mcu.jpg

bill: wretched storm chaser
http://www.angrywhelk.com/shinjuku/m...bill%20mcu.jpg

APK: just trying to get some, stupid law school
http://www.angrywhelk.com/shinjuku/m.../apk%20mcu.jpg

into the maw

http://www.angrywhelk.com/shinjuku/m...he%20gurge.jpg

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5:45 am - Hour 16 - In 24 hour Safeway parking lot, Pollock Pines, CA. Rt. 50 is closed until 10:00 am, or so they say. Everyone we meet is jacked up on crystal meth. A really nice man asked us for a ride to Tahoe. Unfortunately we don't have enough room for him. He seems really nice though.

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its the full on gurge at the pines

http://www.angrywhelk.com/shinjuku/m...he%20pines.jpg

bill gets in some good reading, sleeping is not comming easy for any of us.

http://www.angrywhelk.com/shinjuku/m...ck%20pines.jpg

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10:00 am - After working our way back into a good spot, Cpt. Farva of the Pollock Pines PD (no joke - that was his name) shows up and starts telling people to get the fuck out of town, go west and go home. Apparently 50 is not going to open for a long time. Avy control and clean-up still pending. We decide to head back down to Placerville and develop a plan. No one else we can think to call has any ideas.

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no ideas? cool, lets flash some gang signs

http://www.angrywhelk.com/shinjuku/m...ng%20signs.jpg

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10:15 am - Heading back down to Placerville, twisting one up, we get the call from Arty that 80 is open. We haul ass down, north up 49 to 80.

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pretty close to hitting the wall, in need of some hope, just praying we get over the pass

http://www.angrywhelk.com/shinjuku/m...18%20hours.jpg

no stopping! no guests! no plans!

http://www.angrywhelk.com/shinjuku/m...20gatoraid.jpg

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11:30 am - Hour 22 - Nearly stop to ski the resort up top of Donner Pass. Sugarbowl? Wind is honking and snow is coming down hard. Decide to head all the way down to avoid getting caught out of Tahoe again.

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http://www.angrywhelk.com/shinjuku/m...er%20gurge.jpg

the road right at homewood. we are speachless.

http://www.angrywhelk.com/shinjuku/m...20homewood.jpg

http://www.angrywhelk.com/shinjuku/m...ig%20banks.jpg

and finaly, the house of kings, casa de la Meyer

http://www.angrywhelk.com/shinjuku/m...la%20meyer.jpg

skiing pics (minimal) to follow when bill gets back.

Schweet.

edg

That fucking ROCKS.

And you didn't have to eat each other to survive. Of course, that would have been killin' it.


nice bottle of piss btw

Nice Base! I miss it already...hopefully Billy-boy is schralping it for us. I wonder if he is going to get out?

This basically sums up the driving conditions for approx. 300 of the 633 miles...all up in the maw of the 'gurge.

http://www.angrywhelk.com/shinjuku/m...he%20gurge.jpg

Stars...They're just like Us!

Glad to see that you guys made time to read "the paper"

That is a hot little TR

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Glad to see that you guys made time to read "the paper"

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Wish you were there man. When are you going to be able to get up?

They were skeptical of "the paper" at first, but everyone ended up reading it cover to cover...and they really are just like us!

YES!!!!!!!!!!!

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They were skeptical of "the paper" at first, but everyone ended up reading it cover to cover...

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i'm certain apk read it two, if not three times. really sorry to have missed you honc. make sure to thank your roomate for me. he did alright with his first effort. it really helped with the stressfull situations encountered in the MCU.


i miss it too gonzo

So did Brad and Jennifer really break up?

Now safe and sound in the library, 3000 miles away from the epicgnargnarmawgurgexxxtravaganza...but my watch and my brain are still very much on CA time. Sorry you couldn't make it, Honc, and sorry I didn't get to meet yuz. Next time...and there will be a next time...

Unreal. simply unreal. And no one deserved those turns more than you guys who took a huge chance going into the maw of the gurge.

That TR brought tears to my eyes :) (whether I'm happy for you or very, very sad for me to not have gotten some of that snow, I'm not sure...).

Nice work - keep those pix coming.

Glad that stress was eased. Sorry to have missed you guys. I crushed it at the office all weekend and have been killing it at the financial printers in Newport Beach since yesterday morning.

The only good that has come from this trip is that I can confirm without hesitation that the paper doesn't lie...Brad and Jennifer have broken up.

In all seriousness. This trip sounds like amazing fun and I am sorry that I didn't get to be a part of it. Really hope that you guys all make it out again this season. Gonz tried to provide some color on Sunday night but I think that he was entirely too polluted by the time I called back. I had to hang up once he started talking about having invented "white trash wombats" which include a waterpipe, seagrams, bud light and some brake fluid. Amazing.

Thanks for the inspiration fellas. Vive le Wombat!!!

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I had to hang up once he started talking about having invented "white trash wombats" which include a waterpipe, seagrams, bud light and some brake fluid. Amazing.

Thanks for the inspiration fellas. Vive le Wombat!!!

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dude, get it right. its bong hit, then lie on your back, then Susan pours seven in your throat, then i pour in keystone light crucial thats its keystone, then you jump up, headrush style, and exhale.

we are fucking brilliant.

Base, Honc was in on Wombats on the ground floor way back when.

bill just called. they just opend granite again.

20" of new this morning of dryer blow. he's going over to granite to meet up with grant for the afternoon.


god damn why didn't i stay

get sum billy!

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Base, Honc was in on Wombats on the ground floor way back when. The white trash wombat i was speaking of would be bong hit inhale, seagrams and beer ingested, brake fluid huffed, bong hit and brake fluid exhaled.

Bill won the wombat contest with the bong hit, beefaroni ingested, seagrams and beer, bong hit exhaled.

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i was so drunk i think i forgot about the brake fluid

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then i pour in keystone light crucial thats its keystone,

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To avoid "bitter wombat-face", right?

I love this thread. ...the dictionary should have this for the definition of STOKE.

SICK SICK SICK

just fucking awesome!!!!! :biggrin:

Once again, FKNA.

Very impressive work.

d.

Tuesday January 11th - 18:34 PM PST - I just got back home from Squaw. Remember how I said "Wednesday will be 'the day'?" Well, I WAS WRONG. Today was the day. Everything went, save for Silverado, the Palisades, and the Pocket. I owe absolutely everything to my boss, Pat, who was ridiculously sympathetic to my request to have tomorrow off. He was so sympathetic to it, in fact, that he told me to take this afternoon off too.

I left work at noon, hammered over to Squaw in broken clouds that turned back into dumping snow by the time I made it to the Valley. I parked, jumped into my gear, and headed straight for the Funitel to Headwall scramble. Somehwere around the middle of broken arrow, I saw that they had vegunb to load Headwall. I called Cody, heard he was dicking around in the woods filming, so I was on my own. Ran into Doughboy immediately, and hit Slot to lower Light Towers, then lapped CII a couple times until we heard that Granite was about to go. Made it over there, and immediately lost Dopughboy somewhere in Corkscrew around Chamber Cliff, which I think he sent from the top.

The snow over there was insanely deep. Again, I was on spatulas, but I was getting full on face shots. To quote The Scientist, "Light, deep....and an absolute utopia." The clouds were breaking, the winds were light to moderate, and NO ONE WAS OUT. Managed to meet up with Bill, who was still killing it despite doing so for about 4 hours on his own. He was stoked to have some local guidage, so we sessioned the best that Granite has to offer. Way to go Bill, bell to bell like a rock star.

For whatever reason, I seemed to respond to a new-found vigor to hurl myself off of rocks with an unhealthy reaction of not being able to stomp anything, but in 15 feet of snow, it sure as hell didn't matter. I was pinballing and cartwheeling down everything, and met with only hoots and hollers from myself and lookers-on.

We bailed and did a Broken Arrow/Tower 16 to Headwall, and then got to play on some of the rocks in CII bowl before heading to Balboa for burgers and PBRs, which Bill graciously bought (thanks mang!).

All in all, today was the day, and one last Beantown Maggot got to enjoy it in full-force. I don't think I've ever seen a quiet guy have a shit eater plastered on his face for so long.

So now you guys know how things go down on the north shore of Tahoe, so stoked for you and glad to have taken part in the insanity. As I said before, come back anytime.
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BAP BAP BAP! YEAH DOODS!

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Tuesday January 11th - 18:34 PM PST - I just got back home from Squaw. Remember how I said "Wednesday will be 'the day'?" Well, I WAS WRONG. Today was the day. Everything went, save for Silverado, the Palisades, and the Pocket. I owe absolutely everything to my boss, Pat, who was ridiculously sympathetic to my request to have tomorrow off. He was so sympathetic to it, in fact, that he told me to take this afternoon off too.

I left work at noon, hammered over to Squaw in broken clouds that turned back into dumping snow by the time I made it to the Valley. I parked, jumped into my gear, and headed straight for the Funitel to Headwall scramble. Somehwere around the middle of broken arrow, I saw that they had vegunb to load Headwall. I called Cody, heard he was dicking around in the woods filming, so I was on my own. Ran into Doughboy immediately, and hit Slot to lower Light Towers, then lapped CII a couple times until we heard that Granite was about to go. Made it over there, and immediately lost Dopughboy somewhere in Corkscrew around Chamber Cliff, which I think he sent from the top.

The snow over there was insanely deep. Again, I was on spatulas, but I was getting full on face shots. To quote The Scientist, "Light, deep....and an absolute utopia." The clouds were breaking, the winds were light to moderate, and NO ONE WAS OUT. Managed to meet up with Bill, who was still killing it despite doing so for about 4 hours on his own. He was stoked to have some local guidage, so we sessioned the best that Granite has to offer. Way to go Bill, bell to bell like a rock star.

For whatever reason, I seemed to respond to a new-found vigor to hurl myself off of rocks with an unhealthy reaction of not being able to stomp anything, but in 15 feet of snow, it sure as hell didn't matter. I was pinballing and cartwheeling down everything, and met with only hoots and hollers from myself and lookers-on.

We bailed and did a Broken Arrow/Tower 16 to Headwall, and then got to play on some of the rocks in CII bowl before heading to Balboa for burgers and PBRs, which Bill graciously bought (thanks mang!).

All in all, today was the day, and one last Beantown Maggot got to enjoy it in full-force. I don't think I've ever seen a quiet guy have a shit eater plastered on his face for so long.

So now you guys know how things go down on the north shore of Tahoe, so stoked for you and glad to have taken part in the insanity. As I said before, come back anytime.
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hell yeah! way to get after it boys

as i am sit here cursing you all under my breath as I thougt Wed was going to be "The Day"...damn it

FKNA! sounds like it went off big time today Lane.

Hoping my shuffling of the morning schedule tomorrow pays off at kirkwood like it paid off for you.

God Damn this is alot of snow.

To all y'all EC boys-

Thank you. Seriously, thank you. As we were sitting around having beers in the Chamoix, all I could think about was the unbelievable stoke that skiing brings to people. Skiing brings so much stoke, that a bunch a lunatics from all around the country, all with the same passion, randomly meet up, and chase the dream. So sick.

All in all it was good meeting you peeps and you're welcome back to Squaw any friggin time.


Regarding Today-
Third chair, middle knuckle, tits deep, so sick.
Then I went to work. Oh yeah, work was actually fun as hell. It consisted of shooting nipple deep pow in the trees in and out of bounds around Squaw with my heroes. Work did not suck.

Oh yeah, and that 17 year old girl was Michelle Parker. She's a jibber who's been following me and George around, learning the big mountain ropes. She'll be the best skier in the world in...I'd say 3 years.

Just skimmed this thread for pics. Nice action, boys! :yourock:

It's funny, because this is exactly how I imagined hanging with mildbill:

http://www.angrywhelk.com/shinjuku/m...bill%20mcu.jpg

ha, me too, that picture captures it.

Can't say enough about how happy I am for the bean crew and really, how proud of them I am. It's silly but I am stoked for the fellas.

Killed it? It is fuckin dead.

I was in the KT line at about 8:45 and got back to my car about 3. 5th day straight, I'm exhausted but still grinning! Scored fresh on KT, Broken Arrow, had an amazing reverse traverse run down the slot before the HW lift opened then scored unbelievably deep turns on the Chief. Today was most definitely the day! Heard 'em blasting as I was loading the Spatulas in the car. Silverado tomorrow?

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Siverado hasn't opened yet? holy crap..that place is gonna be insane with all this snow. Silverado is like it's own experts only mini-resort.

Gonzo - SO WELL FUCKING DONE, my friend!

Impressive peformances by all. Kick ass thread. [/blinding jealousy]

first the redsox, now this.. wow.

fkna guys, way to get after it.