Whoa, that radar shows a lot more precip than the weather.com radar.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyrone Shoelaces
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Whoa, that radar shows a lot more precip than the weather.com radar.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyrone Shoelaces
So much for the storm hitting the bay area before Kirkwood, the webcam is showing snow already.....
At least on the North Shore, NOAA is saying 10-18" above 7000'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyrone Shoelaces
Boo yah!
This guy?Quote:
Originally Posted by ryank
http://www.sacramentoareamustang.org...1010014big.JPG
^^ classic!
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by davey
You are God, sir. I am printing that picture out as I speak. Even though it's not the same car, it was a red one.
Hella good snow steering with that stang I bet. Haha! I might be getting flu on Wed. Sweet.
Raining really hard here in Novato :biggrin:Quote:
Originally Posted by skimoore
Just started hailing in South City.....Quote:
Originally Posted by seanyob
I'm at Heave almost every day (working).
Possible the only person up there on CMH Explosives & freerides.
(and soon to have change for a nickel stickers I hope.)
I was just about to upload that mustang pic myself!
I'm hoping I can social engineer my way out of work tomorrow...
Who is going to be at alpine tomorrow? Or Sugarbowl?
Today was all time @ Alpine. Got up the road at 8:15AM and sat in line for an hour while they did avy work, and then it WENT BLUEBIRD!!!!
rolled into the lot and loaded RH (Summit 6 closed at that point) and hit Gunner's Knob and all those fun little mini golf features back there: it was DEEP and COLD....best RH runs I have had in some time....then started working a track out above lower Beav for untouched goodness - (Borat voice): "a very nice"!
After about an hour rumors began to fly that Scott was going to spin, so I made my way over and decided to wait in line with the 5 or so other fools already there. good call, 20 mins later tey dropped the rope and it was GAME ON...first run was straight down the gut of Scott Chute, super fast and wind buffy, I made maybe 5 turns with a big grin plastered on my face as the hoots and hollers came from above, not as deep as stuff off RH, more wind effected, but good.....second run was the little cliff band that you traverse to and stay high (and light on your skis to avoid rocks), super fun....did 3 or 4more variations of that off Scott....
Again, buzzing about was the rumor that Summit was gonna go....so i got over there about 1 and decided to get in line, and about 1:30 - BOOM, it was a go!
Hit Wolverine first, laid the second track down that face: yeeee haaaa, super blower out there, bee-lined it back to 6, next run was out to Palasides, very noice.....then hit upper Beav and another favorite off 6 and and decided to go back to Scott for a Promised Land end of day run.....
Good call, it was untouched back there and I had one of the funnest PL runs ever, rwas super nice snow back there, and spit me out right ack to the 'lot, and to the car.
great pow day, who woud have thunk they would have gottn so much open and that it would be blue bird!!???
NWS calling for ~ a foot above 7K tonight through tomorrow AM, and they never opened any of the hikes or back-side, so tmrw should be good too!
Insanely jealous of you.
Actually, NOAA is calling for a foot to one and a half. But who's counting.
Hope you appreciated the hard work. We had to punch in both Firebreak (the usual) and Raleys (the not so usual) entries today. Fortunately we were able to follow some slowboarders boot pack out - thank god! Deep, light, needs to be steep, good shit! Not too bony down low either. I'm tired in a good way. Pictures at 11.Quote:
Originally Posted by ja_surf
kirkwood was really fun. it snowed alot there.
did you see any Mustangs in the parking lot this morning?Quote:
Originally Posted by AKA
1 Mitsubishi 3000gt.Quote:
Originally Posted by freshies
p.s. check the radar.
wooo hooooo bring it on!
i had one of the best days i have yet at squaw today. got some stuff done early with the filming and then it was just on. checked a lot of stuff on my list today. hits and lines i've been wanting to ski and hadnt sacked up for yet.
the fingers are skiing great.
headwall opened at 2ish and provided a must ski bell to bell day.
god damn that shit was fun.
light towers were so deep.
i cant even process all the radness from today. i did participate in an 18 man simulski of the waterfall line in the fingers while kt was stopped, that stands out.
If it wasn't holding hands, I'm not impressed...:rolleyes2Quote:
Originally Posted by basom
Sooooo stoked to get up there, just waiting for the 666 powder express to pick me up....
cue the "Jaws" theme song :FIREdevilQuote:
Originally Posted by ryank
OSPPQuote:
Originally Posted by freshies
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Look at this next storm in this precip model (at 72 hours).. :eek: :eek: :eek:
Not sure if Tahoe will get any of it. Canada certainly will.
http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~ove...d1_pcp3+//72/3
http://weather.cod.edu/mcnexrad/N_Ca...lifornia11.gif
:yourock:
This should be interesting!
mmmmmm, mmmmmmm good. today restored my faith in resort skiing as i was about ready to give it up. lots of great deep snow, sun shining, lots of cool folks beaming ear to ear, and plenty of untracked to be had. my intended 1-2 hrs on the hill turned into 5. saw patrol pulling some poor bloke out of a hollow creek hole w/ a rope under sky chair. poor bastard. and in another story, i heard that some guy who got 1st chair on gunbarrel really nailed it. not long after loading his tips dug into the snowbank 50' up the chair and faceplanted right off the chair. and he proceeded to take a ski off the guy sitting next to him w/ him. later overheard the guy who lost his ski saying that he waited up top for someone to bring him his ski but it never came. poor bastard.
went to lunch at sprouts and ran into my buds that i bailed on going up p-house this am and they said it was all-time. best runs of their life. they were prolly just trying to rub it in my face giving me shit for riding the lifts but i almost believe them given the conditions right now. so track is punched and is skiing like never before (allegedly). i'll be there manana though the track will prolly be covered back up by then. storm looks to be coming in as we speak though it does seem to presently be stalled out over the echo peak ridgeline but it should make it over soon.
looks like the carson valley got a good coat of snow and someone told me there was a foot in gardnerville. sooooo, w/ this next storm coming in, its time to set up some car shuttles and ski some of the biggest vert lines in tahoe. jobs peak and porcupine ridge are looking really fucking good right now. in fact, everything is looking really fucking good right now and other then the high avy rating, it looks pretty stable out there. didn't really see any big natural releases anywhere but i wasn't on any really steep terrain (it was heavenly after all) to gauge it 1sthand. the terrain menu we've got to choose from has just expanded 100 fold from just a week ago. god damn i love this shit!!!!:biggrin:
I love the stoke in your "voice!" Kellie <--- contemplating getting on a plane if this keeps up!
gimpy, drove out to kirkwood today at 1pm and didn't see any obvious slides.
also, did you happen to notice tracks on the face of flagpole or was I hallucinating. :eek:
last two hours of the day at kirkwood were a blast. ripped a couple quick laps on the front with AKA and his buds, they bailed from fatique. I immediately met up with Lou and we proceeded to do 4 of the fastest pali runs i can imagine. 3 on a 'middle' traverse, not sure who punched it in but it required minimal work and got you a couple extra turns. Then we ended on the high T for a top to bottom run. It was untracked and we planned on shooting a couple pics as we had caught the last chair, but our perfect lighting got blotted out by the storm clouds on the way out there.
another foot tonight.
see you guys in the lineup. :D
Oh, and AKA wanted me to be sure I posted that he fell of the traverse out to Pali. Says it was the first time ever and he wanted everyone to know. ;)
I'll pick you up at the airport of your choice providing it's Oakland, Sac, or SFO.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kellie
See you soon!
Oh shit!!! Hop is coming up!!! Not to mention, Shoe is coming up, 666, slim, AKA......... you KNOW tomorrow is gonna go off. :D
KODAK, KODAK, KODAK!!! :FIREdevil
fuck i'm bringing my video camera for this.
:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by lph
I'll be there. :D :D :D
Dammmit I missed the 666 carpool pain train by an hour. I hate my life.Quote:
Originally Posted by lph
Let's see if I can make this happen...
Edit: Fast forward a half hour:
I'm packing my car and driving up solo for the "day", but I'm bringing enough stuff for a week or more if need be.
See you fools in line!
DOOOOOOOOOOO IT!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by hop
Rune, see you there tomorrow!
I'm going to try to come up with mr and mrs shoe.Quote:
Originally Posted by lph
I kinda invited myself, we'll see.
Good to see the new work situation(and part time gig) is working out!Quote:
Originally Posted by onehotchili
Kirkwood was OK today. Chair 6 turned at about 10, and Chair 10 went off just after noon. Amazing to me is how much the wall has filled. I was about 15 chairs back when the wall opened. The top was heavily drifted and you had to go over about 4 ten foot drifts to reach the wall proper. No cat-track today. The wall filled. Soft good snow over what 4 days ago was rock. The high wall had people sending 25 foot airs into soft fluff with no consequences. My first run off the wall was soft and nearly untracked from the cornice to the drain chute. The chute was filled and had a small slide at the top. So soft, even I could straighline into the drain.
Oh, AK Rocket Swallowtails rule in pow! After a few laps on 10, went back to 6 and they dropped to ropes to Sentinel and Palisades. The traverse was perfect and was easy to get to Sentinel ridge. From there sweet soft turns all the way into Timber Creek. "Best skiing of the day. I haven't downloaded pics, yet but I have some.
Tomorrow. Even better, lighter, deeper. Get some.
BTW, anyone know who was sending the cliffs above Jim's?
today was very good at kirkwood. right from the opening at 10am of chair 6 they had wagon wheel bowl open, the best run I have had all season. They opened sentinel around 12:15 and palisades aroung 12:45. And, since chair 10 opened at the same time, it was fucking empty.
as lph said, there was an insane traverse across to pali. Im pretty sure that patrol did it, because i was one of the first dozen people out to sentinel and it was set all the way to pali already.
Finally, there were some very nice hucks done today. Big Jims was hit six(6) times in about a 10 minute period around 2pm. Including a guy on baby blue bros WHO THREW THE LARGEST SICKEST BACKFLIP OFF BIG JIMS THAT I HAVE EVER FUCKING SEEN!!!! was anyone else witness to that insanity?
I have vidoes of two guys hucking, but not the backflip. I will upload them later.
i now have to make up two fully days of shit that I really couldnt afford to miss.
Not a bad day for what is still classified as a "work day". I think I'll be remembering this one as Fat Tuesday.....only off by 1 week you know.
Yep, a work day:
http://www.sierraflow.com/IMG_1872R.jpg
Well, maybe not:
http://www.sierraflow.com/IMG_1883R.jpg
Found a different prespective on things up here:
http://www.sierraflow.com/IMG_1888R.jpg
Quite different than the usual grind:
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http://www.sierraflow.com/IMG_1906R.jpg
Scoping out future work at Montblah.
http://www.sierraflow.com/IMG_1909R.jpg
A co worker....yeah.
http://www.sierraflow.com/IMG_1922R.jpg
http://www.sierraflow.com/IMG_1925R.jpg
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I talked to one of the regular trailbreakers on Flagpole earlier today who also happens to live near the bottom. He confirmed a couple of folks hit Echo, but said no one had been up the pole yet. That's not the mountain I'd want to be skinning up this morning. But skiing down would have been epic, if you survived.
Post up those Kirkwood pics. That had to be insane today!