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A sneaky very fun 1" out there this morning. puts me in a better mood to work the rest of the day. stilllll blasting the gullies heavy, have talked to some friends on patrol and sounds like some of the chokes are still very rocky so I assume the snow just won't stick in there. did not sound like a staffing issue. surprised janitors still hasn't opened though.
Today was very good. They opened some steep gullies today and I was first public in 4 of the season which did not suck. was a little bit of tip toeing/ cautious skiing at the very top but then I could start to tell the pack seemed to be providing better coverage so I went for it from this point down. face shots were had.
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FKNA
What he said.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
Hell yeah!
Faceshots in the Gullies? FKNAQuote:
Originally Posted by Leshphilling77
Hot damn!Quote:
Originally Posted by Leshphilling77
How's the demo inventory at A-basin's rental shop?
I'm gonna be in denver for ~10 days in February for some medical stuff--might be able to get away for a day or two of skiing and I've always wanted to ski A-basin.
Would be nice to avoid checking skis to be able to choose skis based on conditions (plus there are a lot of skis out there I haven't tried yet)...but I don't want to get stuck on some Rossi Experience 86s or 175cm M6 Mantras because that's all they've got left.
If the demo fleet at the Basin isn't up to par (and I have no idea if it is or not) you could try Bent Gate or Powder 7 in Golden, I think both of those shops have pretty good demos.Quote:
Originally Posted by singlesline
FKNA is right.Quote:
Originally Posted by Leshphilling77
How do you guys think the conditions are going to hold up over the next couple weeks? Contemplating a quick trip to visit my brother in Silverthorne for a week and it looks like high pressure might be settling in your world for a bit.
This time of year the conditions generally hold up pretty well, especially on north facing stuff. The sun never hits it. It'll get hard packed, but just chalky, not icy.Quote:
Originally Posted by ticketchecker
I do love chalky, we don't get that much back here on the ice coast.
thanks mang
Or make your way to Slope Style in Breck and I'd be happy to give a mag a free demoQuote:
Originally Posted by Full Trucker
Very warm out, hopefully we can get something out of this system headed here. At least even just a little snow and wind to buff things out would be nice.
Busy day, lots of team summit children clogging everything up. But overall sun and that good wind grooming made it really fun.
Team Summit apparently didn't get the memo that A-Basin sucks (literally) and Breck/Keystone have much better skiing.
Crowds yesterday (and folks parking down the hwy) reminded me of the old Epic days. Didn't ski Saturday but one of the dudes working in the lot said it was the busiest day of the season so far. Al has limited the number of passes and daily tickets, but IKONers are a huge variable. Based on friends burning quickly through their days (due to massive crowds at Copper and WP) maybe we'll see a dip before too long.
Speaking of Al, I ran into him a few weeks back in High Noon ironically around noon ("I'm really good at directing traffic"). Gotta love his management style.
It was the team summit foundation cup...a free big mountain/mogul competition not just for the Team Summit kids, but for the local community in general. Team summit donates coaching and A-Basin donates lift tickets for any and all kids who wanted to come out and try it. It is a great event. My kid did this a few years back and getting to compete in a low-key event like that at a young age helped cement his love for big mountain skiing. He now competes in the IFSA competitions.Quote:
Originally Posted by ColMan
At any rate...yeah it was crowded, but good things were happening for a lot of kids yesterday :)
Thanks for the tip. I ended up skiing at Vail yesterday instead (friend from grad school happened to be on a trip there so I coughed up the extra $100 and 30 minutes of driving to see him), but I was able to hit up Bent Gate and try out some Deathwish 104s. Not a lot of places to demo Moments and they are on my list for my next daily driver so it great to try them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Full Trucker
Despite the fresh snow that fell Monday night, skiing was pretty shit. I don't know Vail well (and its so damn huge) so part of the problem may have been that it took me all day to find decent snow, but I guess it had been warm and sunny recently so it was just a couple of inches on top of nasty refrozen crud.
There's a reason stuff still looked like this at 3PM...you ski it once and then you say "that sucked, let me try somewhere else"
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Yeah - Back Bowls after sun? No thanks.
Someone should have told your buddy that Vail sucks.
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Like any ski area, it's often a game of aspects. The bigger the area, the more choices of aspects, but the more knowledge of the mountain comes into play.
Northwoods was probably good, unless it got too warm up there too.
Yeah--wasn't his trip either (he was tagging along on someone else's plans), but I also think they are a little more in Vail's target demo. This was the first glint of sun--most of the day was low-viz and a bit of continued snow. Sounds like they were skiing almost spring conditions over the weekend/monday so the refreeze was rough.Quote:
Originally Posted by skaredshtles
But hey, crowds were non-existent, pretty much skied on to chair most rides. Hadn't been to Vail in years and the scale of lift operations there is astounding.
Got a chuckle out of hearing people talk about delays and operations issues with the new Game Creek chair only to go ride it and notice it is the exact same chair as Whitefish's new chair that got evacuated a few weeks ago. Let the record state that 2022 was not a good time to be building a Leitner-Poma 6-pack!
Yeah, I found that later in the day and probably the best overall snow was the 2 laps I did there--prima cornice and prima to pronto, although when prima first kicks to steep, it was pretty nasty--deeply rutted and then refrozen moguls (I'm assuming thats a run that gets the "bro, I skied a double black" traffic??)--which is what diverted me to Pronto (and the trees below it) which skied nicely.Quote:
Originally Posted by The SnowShow
End of the day I made it over to Blue Sky Basin and found some nice turns in sections. Lovers Leap area and the lower half of the skyline lift line had better accumulation and the stuff underneath was a bit softer.
Yeesh - sounds like day-drinking in the pub would have been a better idea.
;)
harsh conditions out there this morning. Unfavorable wind direction, seemingly lots of wind and real cold temps did not make for easy skiing. the sheltered areas in the beavers were most fun but I did not last long.
Did I drink with you at the bar?Quote:
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Tickets are already sold out for Saturday and Sunday this holiday weekend.
didn't make it into the bar yesterday.Quote:
Originally Posted by ticketchecker
I would expect busy weekends (saturdays) from here on out. obviously this weekend will be especially busy with presidents day but in talking to folks on the lift last week friday and saturday it seems like folks are just starting to use their ikon days and they seemed to like driving to the basin vs the shit show that copper has been this season. that said I really don't think a lot of that crowd fully understands the basin as I heard a lot of remarks about how rocky things were and they thought the coverage would be better :D
You know what? Those people can eat a bag of dicks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Leshphilling77
the basin is sooooo rocky, stay away!
I fuggin love the rocks at A Basin. I've been hitting many of them for years and it is like we have this special bond.
i herd u can order a bag of rocks at the bar
Can you get a side of dicks with your rocks or do you have to go full bag?Quote:
Originally Posted by Micol
I sub it for the 8oz Coors Light for a dollar more with my bloody. Secret menu.Quote:
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I hope you've named some of them like I haveQuote:
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Only the ones big enough to jump off. Pet rocks, like the 70's. haha.Quote:
Originally Posted by bamboocoreONLY
I hate these rocks that you have to rappel.
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That whole mountain range is rocky.Quote:
Originally Posted by turbomike15
#allskisarerockskis
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