schweitzer opens tomorrow, rip it up;
LO and 49N picked up a bit of fresh;
im going up sherman peak and give the west face
a look sunday, bringing snowshoes just in case
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schweitzer opens tomorrow, rip it up;
LO and 49N picked up a bit of fresh;
im going up sherman peak and give the west face
a look sunday, bringing snowshoes just in case
It'd shock me if it goes, considering it doesn't usually fill in until January or later. Maybe this is the year? Hope you score some good turns!Quote:
Originally Posted by WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot
I'm hitting up silver on Sunday when they open for their "sneak peak". Anyone know if I should just use my rock skis or go ahead and use my new Sir Francis Bacons? Don't really wanna screw up new skis this early in the season.
Pm 2funky. He's our expert silver mountain skier.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bdog325
true that .... just planning a little xc tour, nothing heavyQuote:
Originally Posted by bourbonisgood
Rock skis no question. Have ya seen silver in the summer? I'll be there Sunday to give my rock skis their yearly base grindQuote:
Originally Posted by Bdog325
Lookout was good today. Will post some pics tomorrow, unfortunately I broke the charge port on my phone today, but I got a new shitty walmart phone that's capable of emailing pics so I should get it working soon.
Chair 1 and 2 are open. I honestly wouldn't ski anything on chair one due to being south facing and can be rocky even in late March. From what I've heard chair 2 has good coverage and should ski well. I would bring whatever skis you want and ski smart. It's early and not the time to be hunting for fresh pow in off the beaten path areas.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bdog325
I'll be up there as well man. Maybe we can spin a lap, been a while. I'll keep my eye out.Quote:
Originally Posted by bourbonisgood
Seconded. I remember the saying among locals use to be that the miners seemed to have taken every rock up there and placed them with the most jagged side up. It's not even thanksgiving. No new skis!Quote:
Originally Posted by bourbonisgood
Hit me up when you head to bluewood. Ill join you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Leavenworth Skier
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Skiing Schweitzer tomorrow. Trekking is fine inbounds but outside the gates is iffy. Only Musical and Basin Express are open.Triple opens on Sunday, probably.
I get freebies there I think. I'm down.Quote:
Originally Posted by Patarero
I'm down. Really want to ski all the inland nw hills I can.Quote:
Originally Posted by NW_SKIER
Paterero tells me the touring isn't bad there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Leavenworth Skier
I really wanted to go but with only two, well really one chair, running, I know it's going to be a complete shit show with long lines. Report back man!Quote:
Originally Posted by GoldMember
Yep, it's absolutely horrible wth rocks at Silver and everyone should just go to Schweitzer.Quote:
Originally Posted by CelebratedSkier
The rocks at silver are certainly worse than any of the other 4 local hills in early season conditions. At least that has always been my experience.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2FUNKY
I prefer silver to lookout other than the early and late season skiing. It's rarely ever "busy." where lookout is. I just can't afford a season pass for Schweitzer this year. So hopefully next year
It's early season. All the resorts are going to be rocky in certain areas. Just have to know where to go and where not to. T2D2, SOB, Gem, Happy Jack and tall Paul will be rocky. Other spots, not so much. I'll leave the known rocky areas to others and will just cruise and poke around checking stuff out. I'll be on ProTest for max float then I'll probably switch to my Viciks once things get beat up.Quote:
Originally Posted by CelebratedSkier
Don't forget Sitzmark!Quote:
Originally Posted by Leavenworth Skier
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Originally Posted by 2FUNKY
Yep, total shit-show and yep, everyone just did go to Schweitzer. I was in the line-up at go time and it wasn't too bad but the line just kept getting longer and longer. I skied from just before 9:00 to about 10:15 and called it. The line was stupid long.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2FUNKY
As for the skiing, it was pretty good but the terrain is so limited that it got boring pretty quickly. I skied one run on Headwall and just had to snake through the rock garden toward the bottom. Luckily, I didn't hit anything but it was pretty sketchy. There was about 8" of pow off-piste that was kind of fun but it got skied up fast. The skier's right in the Terrain Park was the best snow and was still relatively untracked on my last run. I was going to skin up to the top with a buddy but decided to just go home and go golfing. Glad I did, nice day in Spokane and I actually played pretty well.
It's going to piss rain Tue/Wed up there so we'll see what it looks like for next weekend when they reopen but, I'm not sure I'll be going back up until they get some snow. I think conditions are likely going to suck for the next ten days.
At least ya got out. Glad ya got some of the good stuff. The lines did look crazy in the cams. I just stayed home and did chores but I did make an amazing pot of chili.
The weather forecast looks depressing for skiing turkey day weekend. That's a bummer for us and the resorts.
Glad to see your story confirms all the reports I received. I looked at the webcams around 10 and saw every chair loaded and knew I made the right call on staying away. Appreciate the update!Quote:
Originally Posted by GoldMember
FKNAQuote:
Originally Posted by GoldMember
Silver is off the chain today. Silly good.
That is all.........
Pics or it didn't happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2FUNKY
Didn't get anything worthy of posting. To busy hot lapping pow. No lines and fat pow, legz r dun. Didn't touch a single rock.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kopi_Red
Can confirm this. Best opener I can remember and didn't find any rocks either! I saw ya once from a distance, looked like you were enjoying yourself. My legs were spent by noon.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2FUNKY
No pics!? Fake news!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by 2FUNKY
JK. I'm just jealous.
I looked for ya man. Wish we could have skied a few laps. ''Twas good though.Quote:
Originally Posted by bourbonisgood
Did Bluewood ever put in the top chair, or are they still running the sled to the top? I enjoyed that immensely.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...acfa3801cf.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by Kopi_Red
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Happy now? [emoji16]
Nope. Not even in the slightest. I'm even more jealous now. :cussing:Quote:
Originally Posted by 2FUNKY
Me and my buddies also skied silver yesterday. The snow was amazing in the morning. Rode up the lift and could count the amount of lines on the mountain. Everyones stoke levels were through the roof which made it a ton of fun. Praying that most of this week's precipitation is mostly snow for Friday. Hoping to repeat the sneak peek day
So did you ride the new sticks or no?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bdog325
Snow was still sick in the trees with many fresh lines when I left at 2:30, even the tracked snow was nice and soft and chargy. Stoke meter was pegged all day and hearing all the hoots and hollers was awesome. I rode my ProTest until noon then switched to the Vicik.
No. I decided to only bring my rock skis which worked fine. Me and my buddies were hucking it and occasionally hitting/scraping trees and rocks. My good skis would have been fine to use but I think it would have held me back from going all out since i would be worried about hitting something.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2FUNKY
It's hard to take the chance of hitting something when you spend almost 600 dollars on skis lol
Cool. Where were you "hucking" it?
None of the good hits are even open let alone enough coverage to send them.
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Originally Posted by Bdog325
These two ideas seem to disagree. Logic of an early season hucker... 😬Quote:
Originally Posted by Bdog325
Looks like a good time
Totally. Skis are nothing compared to the cost of ending your season.
Nothing too dangerous. Plenty of powder to absorb the fall. I wasn't skiing too hard to hurt myself badly either. It's only the first day of the season. My point was having to worry about damaging good skis or to be able to ski hard and not worrying about damaging skis.Quote:
Originally Posted by Norseman