W. Wa Cascadia Autonomous Region '24/'25

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You can mark it with a sharpie and it should stay throughout a shop experience and then wipe the sharpie off later with an alcohol wipe.

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Yep. Back before i would "mount your own fucking skis", i would take a sharpie and draw a line on each ski, label it "MIDSOLE", and draw a few arrows leaders point to it with the text "mount here". Basically making it totally idiot (high AF shop rat) proof.


But again, that was before i realized i could do infinite mounts myself with a single $30 drill bit (and whatever glue happened to be laying around) instead of paying upwards of $80 a pop for a mount.

https://www.slidewright.com/dp/alpin...ng-drill-bits/

Buy the Snowli Double Step drill bit, and your bases are covered for both normal alpine skis, AND skis with metal in them.

NWAC observation for Snoqualmie yesterday:

There is no way to sugar coat how poor the travel conditions are right now. Crusts abound, supportable and breakable. The surface in the forest resembles a coral reef. It requires a lot of caution and patience right now to avoid injury if your route takes you downhill through the trees without the benefit of a well-worn path.

^ can confirm the conditions from their office, if just a little further south of the pass.

Tuesday was warmer and the hard freezes hadn’t really hit yet, so things softened up quickly.

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Today was even sunnier, but the cold temps have stopped the freeze-thaw cycle. You could hear people across the valley from how loud their skis were on the ice. North facing was better, but sharp edges are a must right now.

So I went and snagged a pair of these for pennies, and breathed a little life into them:

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High pressure this past week hasn't been all bad
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Anyone make it up to Stevens lately? Was up early in the week and on piste was still good. Curious is the freeze-thaw cycle kicked in yet. Friends are headed up tomorrow.


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Anyone make it up to Stevens lately? Was up early in the week and on piste was still good. Curious is the freeze-thaw cycle kicked in yet. Friends are headed up tomorrow.


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Yup. Groomers were fine but highly variable. Did one lap up seventh and then stuck to groomers. A few conditions checks off piste brought me back to the groomers. Tried railing later in the day and chattered right out of my pin bindings (poor choice today but doing a final dial in before a trip).

Lots of bodies everywhere and I heard at one point that patrol ran out of toboggans.

So yeah… keep it in control and in the sun on the groomers would be my advice.

Views were good though.

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Lots of broken hips at work this weekend from falls on hard groomers


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Lots of broken hips at work this weekend from falls on hard groomers


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Fuuuuuuck. I just got mine resurfaced. No thanks.

Planning to head up to Hurricane Ridge this weekend for some touring. With the gate opening at 9AM, I am assuming people get there earlier to wait in line and guarantee they get up. Any recommendations on when to arrive at the entrance station in the morning?

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Planning to head up to Hurricane Ridge this weekend for some touring. With the gate opening at 9AM, I am assuming people get there earlier to wait in line and guarantee they get up. Any recommendations on when to arrive at the entrance station in the morning?

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Unless there's new snow / hyped storm, 20 minutes should be plenty IME

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Will it ever snow again?

Yes. There’s still nice snow higher north aspects, especially if it’s untracked. I skied boot top facets today in the south Wenatchee Mountains. It’s loud and heavy, like sand.


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Will it ever snow again?

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Believe...

8 days.

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Originally Posted by MagnificentUnicorn

Yes. There’s still nice snow higher north aspects, especially if it’s untracked. I skied boot top facets today in the south Wenatchee Mountains. It’s loud and heavy, like sand.


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I don't like it it's like weird and sink-y. But you don't sink into it you like fall through it it's hard to describe. And it's bad ...because of the implications.

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Anything other than boilerplate up in the Olympics (Klahhane, Hurricane Ridge)? I’ve been interested to tour over there, but while general stability and sunshine in the forecast is appealing, recent BC conditions around the passes haven’t been very compelling.


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I don’t get that feeling, it’s like pushing sand. You can’t sink in it really. I couldn’t find the bottom of the facets probing with my pole grip. This is often the case over here when we get high pressure, next big snow it’ll be sketchy.
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Jesus Christ


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Very emotional posting here.


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Anyway, facet farm is cranking east of the crest. Good enough for [emoji640] laps on protected NE facing glades. I’d post a pic but it’d be a fail.


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Originally Posted by Huskier

For the observant in the crowd: How late do the parking Nazis at Crustal prowl the lots? No res. required from noon on... so maybe like 11?

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Crystal has an automated license plate scanner. The parking guys further up the boulevard will wave you off the road into a lower lot to pay for parking.
They were there at noon on Jan 19th.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izrB19Av2vk Snow has actually been hanging on pretty good at Mission. Here is a vid from a few seasons ago…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgFFc8Gu6og

Tumble in Chute 2… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrk-WXkNj58

Terrible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5METT21EkCA Aaron sets off an avalanche here then he’s spotting Jolly Rancher wrappers out in Bowl four….

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Perfect corn on south facing aspect around seven k feet today.


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Mission was skiing pretty good today, and had some pretty good corn up high on the south aspects

Who's ready for powder frenzied weekend?

Stoked for snow but scared for how bad commute, parking and lift lines will be after a month of no snow.

Oh well, gotta test the HL Fr120s out!

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Who's ready for powder frenzied weekend? Stoked for snow but scared for how bad commute, parking and lift lines will be after a month of no snow. Oh well, gotta test the HL Fr120s out!

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People are starvin' for the slarvin' baby! At least the fire hose should be getting turned on for everyone. Thank god this pattern is looking to stick around for a bit.

Wonder if we're gonna get some buried weak layer on those northern faces plus a slick sliding crust on the south ones.

Just ripping groomers today at Mission. Mostly deserted all week. Great conditions for GS carving. Little in the way of ice just a few spots.


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Originally Posted by jacob_dbu

Wonder if we're gonna get some buried weak layer on those northern faces plus a slick sliding crust on the south ones.

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Yes

Never gets old

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What's the over/under on lowland snow-induced Crustal attrition? 10%? 20?

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Yesterday was the day to ski


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Overnight snowfall was a bust. Good for me since the weekend shift FOMO was really killing me, but sucks for everyone else.

Quoted replies don't seem to be working. I should've reached out when the partner and I skied Mission Ridge a couple days this past week. Those groomers were truly beautiful. Having such a long, pristine groomer to rip down is a real treat for us Baker skiers.

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Quoted replies don't seem to be working.

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On Android, if I long press the "quote" button and open it in a new tab it works for me.