Looking forward to a long spring touring season in the INW. Looks like some serious freeze thaw cycles coming soon. Should help with consolidation and set up great corn conditions within a couple weeks. Lookout Pass/Stevens Peak, Kootenay Pass, Chimney Rock, Schweitzer all have great zones and should be going strong till June this year. Anyone been venturing yet?
Feel free to share the stoke...
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Thread: Inland Northwest Spring Skiing
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04-20-2011, 05:36 PM #1
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Inland Northwest Spring Skiing
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04-20-2011, 09:16 PM #2
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Heading out tomorrow, stoke to follow. Large shitshow x the road from Stevens Peak right now. Will probably stay more local.
Anyone care to join?
"We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what. -George Santayana, The Philosophy of Travel
...it would probably bother me more if I wasn't quite so heavily sedated. -David St. Hubbins, This Is Spinal Tap
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04-21-2011, 01:18 PM #3
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Hopefully your out there gettin' after it, I'm sittin here at the shop lookin' outside watching it dump!
Originally Posted by The Duke of Hurl
Heading out tomorrow, stoke to follow. Large shitshow x the road from Stevens Peak right now. Will probably stay more local. Anyone care to join?
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04-21-2011, 04:47 PM #4
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Excellent snowpack, still coming down, and I've got a fucked up foot. My season is over. DAMMIT!!!
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04-21-2011, 05:23 PM #5
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biggest snowpack I have seen in the okanagan (BC) area in my 31 years. going to be some flooding for sure. 6ft of snow since april 3rd at silver star.
www.skevikskis.com Check em out!
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04-21-2011, 05:50 PM #6
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Lookout area expecting up to a foot by the AM. FUck corn, still skiing pow!
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04-21-2011, 10:33 PM #7
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Anyone skiing Silver Saturday? With Lookout would open up for another weekend.
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04-22-2011, 12:27 AM #8
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Worked until 2 AM then had 6:30 AM meeting so stayed VERY local. Been looking at this little zone for years, figure it's in shape for a few days in the good seasons. Finally bagged it. I call it The Home Run.
First person to correctly identify this area wins something from Brian's shop (OK Brian?)
I would say, "I'd tell you but then I'd have to kill you" but based on the abundant signage I think the local landowners probably have that covered.
Must have passed 20 of these signs on the way. Probably the biggest objective hazard of the outing, except maybe the moose that passed through earlier (Note tracks)
Non-mag Mike M. who took most of these pics.
I'm thinking this thread title should be changed or postponed, I saw little evidence of spring today. Basically got dumped on for the whole day except for a half hour of blue sky right when we started down. Weird.
All in all a winning outing, a stupid fun easy start to spring touring season. I'll post something more legit soon.
Peace."We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what. -George Santayana, The Philosophy of Travel
...it would probably bother me more if I wasn't quite so heavily sedated. -David St. Hubbins, This Is Spinal Tap
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04-22-2011, 06:37 PM #9
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OK, I'll make it easier. The area is the clear cut in the pic, less than 3 miles from here.
"We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what. -George Santayana, The Philosophy of Travel
...it would probably bother me more if I wasn't quite so heavily sedated. -David St. Hubbins, This Is Spinal Tap
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04-22-2011, 07:43 PM #10
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Is that Spirit Lake? Got a friend with a cabin there...
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04-22-2011, 08:09 PM #11
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Nope....
"We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what. -George Santayana, The Philosophy of Travel
...it would probably bother me more if I wasn't quite so heavily sedated. -David St. Hubbins, This Is Spinal Tap
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04-22-2011, 10:16 PM #12
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I <3 spring
Originally Posted by The Duke of Hurl
Originally Posted by Chainsaw_Willie
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible" -Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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04-23-2011, 12:16 AM #13
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Micah Peak? That is about the only area around here that would have a gate proclaiming electronic surveillance.
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04-23-2011, 09:44 AM #14
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Close...
"We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what. -George Santayana, The Philosophy of Travel
...it would probably bother me more if I wasn't quite so heavily sedated. -David St. Hubbins, This Is Spinal Tap
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04-23-2011, 01:12 PM #15
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I'm thinking thats Newman... That looks like the clear cut a couple ridges over from Mt. Spokane that I also have spied many times....
We could provide some sort of prize... especially if I just won!
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04-23-2011, 06:43 PM #16
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Nope....
"We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what. -George Santayana, The Philosophy of Travel
...it would probably bother me more if I wasn't quite so heavily sedated. -David St. Hubbins, This Is Spinal Tap
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04-23-2011, 08:55 PM #17
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Looking towards the south end of Liberty Lake up towards the old ORV area.
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04-23-2011, 09:51 PM #18
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Winner winner chicken dinner! May head back up next week, best to get dropped off to avoid having to leave a car.
"We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what. -George Santayana, The Philosophy of Travel
...it would probably bother me more if I wasn't quite so heavily sedated. -David St. Hubbins, This Is Spinal Tap
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04-23-2011, 10:21 PM #19
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Free Tune Cayuse?
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04-25-2011, 09:57 PM #20
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Hey Brian, you at Alpine Haus? Good idea starting this thread. I may tour Wednesday or Saturday. Anyone in?
"We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what. -George Santayana, The Philosophy of Travel
...it would probably bother me more if I wasn't quite so heavily sedated. -David St. Hubbins, This Is Spinal Tap
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04-26-2011, 08:07 AM #21
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Waiting for Thompson Pass to get plowed. Give yell out if anyone hears its open. One last Silver Sat.
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04-26-2011, 12:43 PM #22
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yeah Im At Alpine Haus DoH.
Where are you thinking of heading? If the wife had been feeling better this morning we were gonna do a couple Mt. Spokane Laps. I woud be suprised if they hadn't recieved atleast a foot in the last 24. The radar has shown the heaviest precip staying pretty consistently over that area for the duration of the storm. Anyhting above 4000 feet should be pretty damn good the next couple of days.
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04-26-2011, 11:14 PM #23
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bump for 2-3 feet in the last 36 hrs @ mt Spokane. 30-40 trees down over the road but apparently cleared tonight. Heading up first thing in the morning... We'll see how far we make it. Nothing like a good adventure! 730 or so at the Nordic lot if the road is clear
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04-27-2011, 01:01 AM #24
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Dropped my boots with Pat S. Will head that way once I pick them up. Should be good.
Pics?Last edited by The Duke of Hurl; 04-27-2011 at 12:46 PM.
"We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what. -George Santayana, The Philosophy of Travel
...it would probably bother me more if I wasn't quite so heavily sedated. -David St. Hubbins, This Is Spinal Tap
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04-27-2011, 06:30 PM #25
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Well I thought the 2-3 feet claim on the news was a bit exaggerated, turns out I was wrong... Not much in the way of pictures as it was pretty foggy. Mix of snow conditions but they recieved a minimum of 30". Safe to say the last storm was the biggest of the season at Mt Spokane. I bet this 36 hour snowfall extended the skiability of the mountain by 2-3 weeks beyond what it would have been. Tons of trees down on the roads. Good quick run, there was even a skin track set from yesterday starting at the summit road.
An amazing amount of snow, I can post some more pics later...
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