Pineapple express has arrived in Fernie

[Ferniefreeheels]

From -35deg C on Saturday to +5 deg C this morning and about 6" of wet, heavy elephant snot on the ground. Avalanche ratings are rated as extreme today...so much for all that sweet dry as toast pow we had last week

[FreakofSnow]

Raining here in Missoula, hopefully it ain't raining up high.

[flanker769]

FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!
Can we not get a break this year or what?!?

[Meathelmet]

From -35deg C on Saturday to +5 deg C this morning and about 6" of wet, heavy elephant snot on the ground. Avalanche ratings are rated as extreme today...so much for all that sweet dry as toast pow we had last week

Dammit man!

At least you have snow AND mountains to ski on!

Here it has been raining for last THREE months, +2´c and we still dont
have any mountains...


Well,this has been so sad that this is beginning to be funny.
In a suddem fit of depression i reserved flight tickets today for two different places AND bought my self a pair of telemark bindings.

I wonder with what i am going to pay them with...

Cheers.

[Squirrel99]

FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!
Can we not get a break this year or what?!?

yeah, seriously. it's coming in strong off the coast right now- they are saying anywhere from 6" to 10" of RAIN in the WA Cascades (we've already had about 3" of rain in Seattle and it's 54F right now

Stevens has lost about 10" of base so far, Baker about 8", Crystal about 8".

sorry to hear the Pineapple made it across- was hoping at least the rain would change to snow as it moved East.

[silas]

From -35deg C on Saturday to +5 deg C this morning and about 6" of wet, heavy elephant snot on the ground. Avalanche ratings are rated as extreme today...so much for all that sweet dry as toast pow we had last week

Consider yourself lucky...... The PNW has not had a season yet. Alpental is closed and the Snoqualmie could be next. Crystal is 50% open and soon to be unskiable if this rain keeps up. I now have a fine collection of junk that once were skis.

We had to drive to SLC to find snow and we found some snow thanks Alta.

[Beaver]

FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!
Can we not get a break this year or what?!?

I dunno about the areas where you have been skiing but the Kootenay b/c has been pretty sweet this winter.

[flanker769]

I dunno about the areas where you have been skiing but the Kootenay b/c has been pretty sweet this winter.

You're totally right but the only b/c I've been able to enjoy was at Valhalla last Thursday and Friday and it was totally sick deep. The rest of my 20 days has been completely in bounds.

[Ferniefreeheels]

Dammit man!

At least you have snow AND mountains to ski on!

Here it has been raining for last THREE months, +2´c and we still dont
have any mountains...


Well,this has been so sad that this is beginning to be funny.
In a suddem fit of depression i reserved flight tickets today for two different places AND bought my self a pair of telemark bindings.

I wonder with what i am going to pay them with...

Cheers.

Actually I've had some pretty good turns this season...I guess it could be worse. Where are you going?

Telemark bindings! Meathelmet, I always knew one day you would take a walk on the wild side

[Meathelmet]

Telemark bindings!I always knew one day you would take a walk on the wild side

Tjah...Well,have to do something here in the land of mud.

Well, it´ll be a blast, i guess. Should get the bindings next week, and see if the "misery sticks" live up to their name...
Should find some knee protectors and learn to telemark mentally in the meantime.

And for the flights, no, not coming up to canada this winter...
Hit the north within 2 weeks and Monte rosa in march.
Luckily we had 2wks of good skiing in the alps in christmastime, so have gottensome turns here too..

And dude, post some pics, it brings some relief to this misery.

[sherpahigh]

That sucks!! I'm glad I got a few fresh turns in the cold snow this past weekend at Fernie. We had a great day finding fresh turns on the whitepass chair and easter bowl off of the meat hook.

I was hoping the rain would stay away. Anyone know if the Horse was hit with the rain too?

[JR]

I dunno about the areas where you have been skiing but the Kootenay b/c has been pretty sweet this winter.

In case I've never mentioned it before, Beaver is full of bullshit.

[joshbu]

I was hoping the rain would stay away. Anyone know if the Horse was hit with the rain too?

The internet says nyet.

http://www.kickinghorseresort.com/wi...ions/index.php

[powderpyg]

In case I've never mentioned it before, Beaver is full of bullshit.

I can't believe you'd say that about your own flesh and blood!

Was at Valhalla yesterday and it was sick, but was getting interesting by the end of the day. I don't think I'd wanna be any where near there today. I bet there were some beaut naturals out of there by noon today. It rained to the top of both Red and WH2O today. I'd say I did good picking last week to take off and play, instead off this week.

[TOLOCOMan]

Banff's joined the rain parade now too. It's been pissing all evening. It's freezing on contact too. Pretty funny watching people walk outside. Hey, gotta see something psitive in it. It's right around 0C right now and hopefully it turns to snow overnight, or been snow at the hills. Keep your fingers crossed.

[weibo]

Satrted pissing up here last night as well. Apparently there has been only snnow at Marmot but I would like a second opinion on that. Currently drizzling in town. This is the first time I can remember it raining three times before April in ten years.

[flanker769]

My poor Fernie.
I could cry.
Excuse me while I go puke.
See link if you dare to be upset

http://far.redtree.com/cgi-bin/far/f...ig20050120.txt

[PlayHarder]

Now I know why I was avoiding Craigs Report today, so much for staying in denial.

[Ferniefreeheels]

Yup, pretty depressing ...if only another Arctic front would come in on it's dogsled bound for hell and do battle with this tropical punch...maybe we'd end up with a few feet. It's happened before.

Kinda sounds like a wet dream... a frozen wet dream, not a rainy one!

[Johnny Gunn]

This SUCKS !!!!!!

That is all.

[Squirrel99]

Man what a bummer. This 'tropical punch' really bites. Hopefully this next wave that's about to send our rivers once again into overdrive and take out another 6"-10" of base this weekend will end up as snow your direction.

I think we still gotcha beat though, with all our lifts closed (and some places yet to open for the season ) - that's a record I'd like to forget about

[Ferniefreeheels]

Man what a bummer. This 'tropical punch' really bites. Hopefully this next wave that's about to send our rivers once again into overdrive and take out another 6"-10" of base this weekend will end up as snow your direction.

I think we still gotcha beat though, with all our lifts closed (and some places yet to open for the season ) - that's a record I'd like to forget about

Yup bad year for sure...I guess we could have it a lot worse.

This pic is borrrowed from Craig's website. This is the mogul coarse for the world cup this weekend. (on the Bear just above the Bears Den)


Damn! I just looked out the window and it's pissing again!
Maybe we should all go bum around Utah for the winter. At least they got a huge base before this crap started.