I got a late start to work today and one of my roommates was already coming back from the hill. He said it was raining to the top and the skiing was shit.
I propose a boycott of pineapples and everything from Hawaii, just to be safe.
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I got a late start to work today and one of my roommates was already coming back from the hill. He said it was raining to the top and the skiing was shit.
I propose a boycott of pineapples and everything from Hawaii, just to be safe.
Yeah, had a buddy drive from Vernon (against my warnings!) and said it was crap. Still planning on the forecasted 1500m FL and more snow Sat-Monday to get me up there for sunday/monday.
This is almost getting comical with a pineapple every 2 weeks on the dot.
^^ Y'all talking about revy right?
Have a crew of extremely desperate PNWers ready to rally up after work, but starting to have seriously doubt. Worth driving 8 hours one way?!?!
personally I wouldn't drive 8hrs to ski in the rain, but hey, whatever floats your boat buddy... :fmicon:Quote:
Originally Posted by TripleT
Steady rain to the top, and untracked sticky boot deep schmoo at Red today. Sort of fun few a few laps.
Shitshow at revy this morning. Got there around 9:30, people were coming down from the gondi and heading to the bar. Huge lift line at the stoke, wet snow at the top, I hiked a bit with my buddy and got some fresh tracks... in 15cm of sloppy heavy wet snow. Called it a day after that.
Missed this till now . Il txt you my number in bitQuote:
Originally Posted by alive
Did one run , rain to pretty much the top . 1900m? Ish. Snow the last 150m of the stoke .
He wasn't the only one who came down early. I was first into Jalapeno and it was one of the worst runs I've ever had there - really heavy and sticky. Was really busy too - would have been a waste of time standing in the line in the rain at the bottom of the Stoke.Quote:
Originally Posted by AlexC
Such a shame after the great conditions yesterday.
On a bit of a road trip, coming home to the west koots tomorrow (not sure why, but it's the way she goes). Driving through blue river yesterday made me want to stay and buy a sled. Snow banks in town are what winter should look like and it was full on dumping. Sadly though by mid day today the freezing level was way too high (not quite treeline, but not too far off) in Clearwater. Hot wind, but no rain - probably rain in mountains proper. I think jasper is the place to be this week.
Shit I'm strange. Had an awesome 10 stokes. Definitely heavy pow last run meet the neighbors to bakers field at 12:30. Pow was sticky below that. Everyone took off it seems . Fresh from vertigo right thru 3 bears. That was 6 runs of surf city. Kept saying"shit that was a lot of fresh , maybe one more"
Drank a beer outside wearing shorts and a t-shirt in Kamloops today. Not even dry enough to bike. This sucks.
WW pretty all right this morning. 30c in the last 24 (at the top, the bottom had just a spackling of new) which consisted of heavy snow topped by a crust then about 5c on top on that. Pretty good on a snowboard. After the first 1.5hrs the snow started to get heavier but it was still snowing. It was rain-snowing at the bottom of Glory.
There were people wearing garbage bags. I felt like I was on the coast.
lake louise was spring on the bottom 1/4, rest was winter, come east you guys (buy cheap gas, get some turns in, then go back when it cools down in BC?)
10cm of new snow above 1500m at Red this morning, and snowing hard all day. A wet ride up, but fun, easy, heavy powder skiing on the Paradise chair.
Yea, Was hoping things would be a lot drier, but yea, yesterday was still fun, thanks to gore tex! Had a few good runs into the bowl... the top bit on the stoke was great too. Seemed like there were only a few people on the whole hill in the afternoon... Have to come back when the snow dries out.
I was stoked my tech wash waterproofing treatment was working better than expected until yessterday
Any word from today?
More pineapple and not. Much precip. Looked like fresh on the trees down 500m ish below tree lineQuote:
Originally Posted by el hefe
It was OK today. I didn't get up there until about 11:30, but still had a couple of good laps in Three Bears, where the snow was deep and heavy. On one of those we skied down to Burgundy's, to the Ripper, and it really didn't get bad until Burgundy's. I also skied a South Bowl lap, but the going was tough in the trees because of how heavy and how chopped up the snow was. It was a day where it was probably more fun on a snowboard.
It was snowing lightly at the top and didn't turn to rain until the Snow Rodeo/Wooly Bully junction. Below that it was spring skiing. They didn't open the Lemming Line or Sub-Peak, so I'll probably head up tomorrow for a Greely lap, if it opens.
Greely Bowl into Beauty Glades sure was fun today. The gong show of people trying to get there added to the amusement.
I had a lot of fun today at revy. Had good pow turns in greely, north and south. The side hits on the cat tracks and corn snow bottom 3/4 of the mtn were a blast in the sun. Depression over.
Lemming line is right. Very entertaining.
2nd best part of the day was the 2 guys cooking burgers at the top of the gondi telling everyone who had just paid for one that it would be 20 minutes for a burger. Look of disappointment on peoples faces was priceless. Some dude in rental gear was pissed....
WW has been fun the last day days- the first 1-2 hours have been good, then you can feel it warm up run to run and the snow becomes mashed taters and the precip becomes sleet*. Still not too bad on a board though. And really, super nice to get out! Was expecting more snow last night.
Half price at WW today for BC residents!
*I just learned that in the US sleet is ice pellets, while in Commonwealth countries, it's rain-snow mixed. I'm honouring our British heritage using that word. Why would the US not just call ice pellets ice pellets?
I had a good run in Greely on sunday, too. Looking like warm weather for a week still :(
Soaked to the bone at whitewater today, was fun high up though visibility sucked what with the fog/flat light/sleet.
Looks like temps are supposed to drop and I have reading week next week and have been planning on coming out to ski wh20, would you say it's worth it to come out right now or should I save the cash
Save your money....
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Whitewater Alpine Forecast
Issued: February 10, 2015, 9am. Next update by 4pm.
Today
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Mainly cloudy with isolated wet flurries.
Precipitation: Trace.
Alpine temperature: High 2
Mostly light ridge wind occasionally gusting to 30 km/h.
Freezing level: 1900 metres.
Tonight
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Mainly cloudy with isolated wet flurries.
Precipitation: Trace.
Alpine temperature: Low 1
Ridge wind southwest 10-30 km/h.
Freezing level: 1600 metres.
Wednesday
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Mainly cloudy.
Precipitation: Nil.
Alpine temperature: High 2
Ridge wind south 10-25 km/h.
Freezing level: 1900 metres.
Thursday
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Mainly cloudy.
Precipitation: Nil.
Alpine temperatures: Low 0 High 2
Ridge wind west 10-30 km/h.
Freezing level: 2000 metres.
Friday
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A mix of sun and cloud.
Precipitation: Nil.
Alpine temperatures: Low 1 High 3
Light ridge wind.
Freezing level: 3100 metres.
Saturday
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Mainly cloudy with isolated showers.
Precipitation: Trace.
Alpine temperatures: Low 2 High 2
Mostly light ridge wind occasionally gusting to 60 km/h.
Freezing level: 2100 metres.
EDIT: add this - http://cliffmass.blogspot.ca/ Longterm isn't looking any better.
Haven't posted in awhile but I'm hoping that you guys could help
Help Please!!
A 2004 Subaru Legacy was broken into and torched last night near radium around the 3km on the Horse Thief road.
Lots of gear was stolen including:
-1 Pair of Blue, Down Countdown 114, mounted with G3 IONS and inserts
-1 Pair of Yellow, Down Countdown 124, mounted with dukes, 1 black, 1 white
-1 Pair of Blizzard Dakotas mounted with White Salomon demos
-1 Pair of Blizzard Cochise mounted with Black/Orange Look P15s
-1 Pair of Orange G3 fixie poles
-1 pair of Black/Silver Scott poles
-1 Pair of Black Hestra Mitts sz 6
-1 Black I Phone 5 in a Black case
Car belonged to Erik Rolston
Please Contact myself or Erik with any information
What pricks, that's a shitload of gear to loseQuote:
Originally Posted by MoNtY
holy shit, sorry to hear that! Best of luck, buncha bastardsQuote:
Originally Posted by MoNtY
Any reports from Rogers Pass today? Bulletin mentions rain below 1800m, is it (sniffle) true?
Went up rmr today, got some surprisingly good snow in the north bowl, up to about halfway down from the lemming line. Also dropped in south bowl from the sub-peak, kind of slabby/wind scoured, but not too bad. Turns to sticky schmank as you get closer to stoke chair and then surpringly fun april corn on the lower mountain.
Also wondering if anyone has recent beta on the pass, I was considering heading out somewhere monday.
I went out and skied Montana Bowl today. First lap was from the cat track, through the mellow alpine, into the Montana trees. The alpine was fun, but the trees were tough skiing, with a mix of mashed potatoes and crust. We then skinned up the ridge dividing Montana from Kokanee and dropped into Montana Bowl from the top. The snow was fast and generally pretty soft, but had a weird consistency to it. There was lots of loose wet avalanches that had come off the ridge into Montana Bowl in the past few days, so there was a lot of battling debris as we traversed below the cliffs to get some more good turns. The skiing from the cat road to the Catcher's Mitt was more mix of crust and schmoo. Once we were back in the resort, it was spring skiing in the sun the rest of the way down.
Hmmm with this chill coming in, looks like awful crust down low for a while, but hopefully smooth snow up high. About to head to Wheeler and then Asulkan for the next 4 days.
Did a top to bottom of rmr today. Things are cooling off now and had to ski most of the way down to start getting some corn . Didn't have the sun like we did yesterday. Anything off groomer is in rough shape. Need snow.
Something something crust, something something April.
Good Exploring snow. About 10cm on top of a very supportive crust. Sleds were hooking up well, some big climbs to get out of here.
I went out to the Bonney moraines today. Skinning the deathcrust without crampons was... tiring. Couple cms of dust on crust above 1700 ish made for alright skiing at the top.
This years rogers pass trip left today but I decided to give it a pass and maybe come back in a month... sounds like maybe it was a good call
Also was out at the pass today - went up Little Sifton. Heading up via Grizzly Shoulder was better than expected (although we had been warned about the tricky up track - a few bits were really heinous even with crampons - the rest quite reasonable). Once in the alpine conditions steadily improved from dust on crust to pretty decent snow with no crust. The higher the better. A bit of wind effect coming down the other side but skiable. Suncrust forming on direct south slopes as well. Dust on crust skiing from 2100m down to 1700m. Below that was supportive crust - luckily no one had skied Grizzly West after the last snowfall so ski out was not too bad with no old refrozen tracks to avoid.
Connaught up track seemed pretty sketchy - felt bad for the guy out on his split board for the first time - seemed like the hardest part of the day.
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