Tahoe Weather, Conditions, Stoke, and What's Up Thread...

[tillPOWdidwepart]

^^^ Click the link. You guys want! Nice write up and pics!

[powdrhound]

^^^ Click the link. You guys want! Nice write up and pics!

I totally agree.





Let it Snow!

[gone2alpine]

Me three.

[seanhav]

Here's a couple from Josh Hejl's perspective:

213 on two really NARROW ass snowboards:



Wheeeeee!!!

put the skis away. 4 more days left in ROCtober son.

[SchralphMacchio]

well, the snow is cooked, but if anyone wants to do beacon / avy scenario practice we left a pretty sizeable and realistic looking debris field near the trees above the Chalet bar @ Alpine Meadows today.

Nice to dust off the rust so early ... MTB muscles =/= skinning and heavy snow skiing muscles ...

[Max Archer]

I got nothing on skinning up Alpine or KW, but I actually managed to get out and ski today. Found some decent skis for $85 at the North Tahoe Swap, and took 'em to Boreal to try them out.

Wasn't too bad for a WROD. Might've only been one lame lift turning but it wasn't too busy, and I've skied worse snow, especially on a 50 degree fall day. At least it looked like winter, too, even if most of what we saw was locked down.


IMG_0377.jpg by maximstensel, on Flickr

View from the overlook on the way back was pretty badass, too. I missed some freaking amazing golden hour light by like 5 minutes while crawling through the detour, though...


IMG_0389.jpg by maximstensel, on Flickr

(Also the Panorama feature on the new iPhone is pretty cool!)

[LongShortLong]

Mellow's the wrod at the Ranch. Blew out the cobwebs, and did my first bootpacking. Coverage was good, 2 foot soft blanket on the north sides. I'm ready for more.

[The Dad]

well, the snow is cooked, but if anyone wants to do beacon / avy scenario practice we left a pretty sizeable and realistic looking debris field near the trees above the Chalet bar @ Alpine Meadows today.

Which side -- Yellow or Scott? What did you hit?

[Max Archer]

Oh, forgot to mention the other thing about Boreal the other day - I have never seen so many cameras packed into such a concentrated area on a slope in my life. In every group of four or five guys, at least one of them had a 5D or a high-end camcorder on some sort of stabilizer rig. I even saw a guy rolling with what looked like a high-end Panasonic camcorder (might've even been the AF-100, the µ4/3 one) with a full cine-style rig on it, follow focus, matte box, the works. From the quality of skiing/boarding they were shooting, they were obviously all just doing it as a hobby kind of thing too.

I'm wondering what Tahoe's gonna look like in general this season. If the last couple years were the rise of the GoPro, this might be the year where everybody's trying to do full ski cinematography to post on youtube. (Probably since they all want to one-up the GoPro vids.)

[kidwoo]

If the last couple years were the rise of the GoPro, this might be the year where everybody's trying to do full ski cinematography to post on youtube. (Probably since they all want to one-up the GoPro vids.)

I for one, would very much welcome more people actually putting some time into their 'videos'

[Max Archer]

I for one, would very much welcome more people actually putting some time into their 'videos'

Yeah, that's a good point. That said, I've been in several other communities that have had amateur photographer/cinematographer arms races go down, and it can get pretty messy...

I'd really like to see more stuff like this happening in the freeskiing/big mountain/BC community, but sadly I suspect it's mostly going to be limited to the park stuff.

[powdork]

i already posted the one pic of kfactor from wednesday. here is the rest of the pics from the day
nacho, happy to be back on snow


me dropping into monte wolf


nacho and hutchski there too




kfactors sequence on lookout janek

[Sierra Cement]

Just did another little tour de frog laque. Heffalump's back was still holding good boot deep pow in the upper most north facing aspects. Kinda korn / porn for anything in the sun.....it all skied good tho and hit very little earthen objects. However, it was 60 degrees at Carson Pass when I left so the white is gonna vanish quick. God damn we all needed a week like this, eh?

[Ottime]

^^^^sure did

PD, Did hutchski pick up your one pole steeze?

[powdork]

she keeps reinjuring the shoulder she f'd up at highland lakes. you'll notice her pole looking like a radio antennae out of my pack.

[SchralphMacchio]

Which side -- Yellow or Scott? What did you hit?

Scott side, visible from the Chalet deck. We just did a quickie lap down the main bowl from the summit. Good times. UCL had some fun with multiple burial scenarios ... he rescued me in quick order but MapleLeafGillies was definitely unconscious, CO2 poisoned and hypothermic by the time UCL gave up on the multiple signal flagging function of his beeper. I guess Gillies and I shouldn't have been standing next to each other in a slide path taking pictures of UCL dropping in ...

I'd really like to see more stuff like this happening in the freeskiing/big mountain/BC community, but sadly I suspect it's mostly going to be limited to the park stuff.

Heh, most of the folks I know are too busy trying to beat the sun / get the fuck off the mountain to be troubled with setting up a fixed line for someone to shoot from or waiting for a filmer to get get into position above the couloir etc etc etc. Jordan Manley is the man, and I don't see many other folks beside him setting up for some serious ski mountaineering lines to be filmed in a cinematic style. Basically, the difference with filming park vs. ski mountaineering is, if you don't do it carefully, you're conflating the danger factor big time.

[Nuthon]

Hiked into thunder saddle today. Snow was still really good & coverage was good to. It was a super warm day, but absolutely beautiful

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[Max Archer]

Heh, most of the folks I know are too busy trying to beat the sun / get the fuck off the mountain to be troubled with setting up a fixed line for someone to shoot from or waiting for a filmer to get get into position above the couloir etc etc etc. Jordan Manley is the man, and I don't see many other folks beside him setting up for some serious ski mountaineering lines to be filmed in a cinematic style. Basically, the difference with filming park vs. ski mountaineering is, if you don't do it carefully, you're conflating the danger factor big time.

It doesn't hurt how easy it is for the park guys to keep trying, either. Just ride the lift around and around.

Seriously shooting mountaineering requires serious skills and a serious budget, no doubt. I do think, though, that it might be cool to do some of the more hardcore inbounds stuff, and with that you get the easy access and repeatability of a lift. Not to mention the especially big benefit of alternate routes for the guy with all the camera crap on his back to get there if desired.

[Driver]

how much of this got fried away today?

[steezinEC]

how much of this got fried away today?

quite a bit at lake level, but it seems to be staying around longer on the mountains

[powdork]

are we gonna get october corn? the rarest of all corn.

[TahoeBC]

are we gonna get october corn? the rarest of all corn.

Referred to as Cornholio?

Some pretty cool shots, ottime, powdork and 213!

[powdrhound]

Oh, forgot to mention the other thing about Boreal the other day - I have never seen so many cameras packed into such a concentrated area on a slope in my life. In every group of four or five guys, at least one of them had a 5D or a high-end camcorder on some sort of stabilizer rig. I even saw a guy rolling with what looked like a high-end Panasonic camcorder (might've even been the AF-100, the µ4/3 one) with a full cine-style rig on it, follow focus, matte box, the works. From the quality of skiing/boarding they were shooting, they were obviously all just doing it as a hobby kind of thing too.

I figured that much of the fancy equipment was with Woodward's. Part of the Video camps.






Let it Snow!

ps. Mom, can you let this knee settle down before you smile on us again?

[Ottime]

Mmmmm. Surf is small. But I do new to dig this French drain. Can someone go out today and roast some up and report back? An I wanna know more about thunder saddle.

[TahoeJ]

Nice pics everyone. Curious to see what the peaks look like now after the warm weather this weekend.