Hola Lady La Niña Oregon Winter 2024-2025

[SchralphMacchio]

Wierd. I quoted TBS, about Bachelor. But it shows your post. This must be related to the other shit going on

Basically nothing works well from a Pc web browser at all.
Tapatalk works way better … but I hate that app. The ads are terrible and it consumes phone processor power like crazy.
But at least it quotes the correct posts and doesn’t turn every punctuation into html code or every number into an emoji.

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From CPU, double click the quote button to get the correct quote posted

Also when typing, enter two paragraph returns to get one

Also from CPU: paste links that have numbers in them — somehow it works in the web browser but won’t in the app

From TGR app: edit for text formatting: paragraph returns, etc
Do not quote any post with numbers in it from IOS app or get the emojisauce

In order to quote with the app, delete the post number from the quote tag. Leave the poster’s name and the semicolon after the name but delete the number that follows. It will at least cite the quoted poster by name.

Random discoveries and workarounds…

[SchralphMacchio]

Ironically I found that from a PC web browser I could get “clean posts” by going into Source Code mode, but then removing all HTML symbols, click post, et voila.

[SchralphMacchio]

March Madness: A (Weekend) Tale of Two Seasons

Saturday



Sunday

[Tap]

Phenomenal

[TBS]

USFS just posted the scoping letter for proposed improvements to NW Express chair
- Bury comms and fiber lines to avoid icing
- New motor control center at top
- Upgrade lower terminal power supply line
- Chair garage so they can take everything off the line and run just the rope at night to minimize icing

See https://usfs-public.app.box.com/file/1796906648647 for details
Comments due by 3/25/25

All seems reasonable EXCEPT there’s concern out there as to whether Midstate Electric can supply sufficient power to run Mt B as intended.

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Very nice schralph!

NW express proposal still solid given it was written by the management group who are trying to sell the hill now?

Fuck me — I’ve been on skis five days this season, four of them on or before Jan one. So much work it’s insane & I have no idea when I can get a break or whether it will just crater with a shitty economy. Kid comes home in a week and I’m still fighting to figure out how to get some days with him. Ullr, save me!

[SchralphMacchio]

Hoodoo Ski Area: Home to Defenders of Democracy [emoji123]
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...-17092949.html

[TBS]

Thanks for posting that.
My buddy Ben was an instructor for one of them. Said he and his athlete had a great time.
Article wasn’t posted until they left because OAS didn’t want to risk protests from people who don’t think we should support Ukraine

[dan_pdx]

Forecast for Hood this weekend is looking pretty good. I'm going to see my ortho on Monday and I think he's going to tell me not to snowboard, so this weekend is my last shot for a while.

[Tap]

Another fatality in C.O.. Down at Mt Bailey. Not the cat operation. Victim succumbed to fatal injuries. Horrible.

[SchralphMacchio]

Tap, my condolences if you were impacted, know the folks involved etc. It’s especially tough coming on the heels of the Skersjaa accident.

Both the Statesman Journal and CO Daily reported that it was through the cat operation. My understanding is that it’s operated through the Diamond Lake Resort but that SWS out of Shasta are the guides and handle terrain / group management?

[Tap]

Thx Schralph. I am not personally affected other than a sense of loss for the community. I wasnt aware if it was thru the cat op or not, thats why i stated that. I know the BC is beautiful but at this point, I am over it.

[SchralphMacchio]

Yeah it’s especially heartbreaking that there’s an 11 year old girl whose dad isn’t coming home.
My daughter is 6.
I watched my friend die in a D2.5 avalanche on Pucker Face outside of Jackson 11 years ago (he was buried 6 feet deep); I haven’t written off the BC yet but I sure as heck have changed my approach. When my kids are older and it’s less of a burden for one parent to handle both of them for 3 days at a time, I have a dream of getting an instructor training certification and teaching Avy classes out at Santiam Pass.

[TBS]

And shits gonna get a lot more sketchy in the next few days with big snowfall and rising temps.
Be extra careful out there

[SchralphMacchio]

An upside down and warming setup may have been the key Avalanche problem in the Happy Valley accident.

This last Thursday was cold blower from what I could tell; today had strong sun exposure warming during storm breaks and then 32F at pass elevations late in the day with warm wet snow falling in the afternoon.

[SchralphMacchio]

Damn impressive storm.
21” at Hoodoo in 24 hours - I’ve never seen their automated weather station pick up that much. I doubt Crater / Backside traverse opens today.
WP got 17” and is on delayed opening. I doubt P2 can spin before noon, won’t be surprised if they just don’t open it today.
Bachy in full storm recovery mode.

Aaaaand it’s warm. Cake batter stuff likely. But hey, it sure as shit will be skiing great in May!!!

Be safe y’all, ski with a friend!

[TBS]

On site report from Hoodoo at 1000 - they still haven’t posted a conditions report
“Green buried on top, waist deep on headwall. They just got manzi spinning”
Some time after 1000 they got Green spinning to the summit.

Mt B looks to be a snowmaggedon

[SchralphMacchio]

That’s honestly just too much snow in one day for Hoodoo.
I wonder how Red trees are skiing at Brokenchair? Webcam shows PMX running.
EPA has been running on the WP cams for a while, I wonder if the steep trees there have been awesome!

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Power problems plague MHM again. Super slow & crowded with only MHX, SSX & HRX rolling (ignoring the beginner zones).
I actually walked out from SSX today, which isn’t too terrible, but nevertheless wasn’t my preferred mode of transport.

Yesterday was pretty epic; today not so much
For ten inches of new to start each day, they skied very different

[SchralphMacchio]

Highway 58 closed from Oakridge to Crescent Junction this afternoon!

[Toadman]

Bachelor was deep. On the heavier side of things. I rolled into the parking lot around 10:25 or so and Pine Marten wasn't spinning yet. Did a lap off Skyliner and then over to Pine to catch the opening. Lots of people taking headers and digging out. Helped a woman get unstuck on a flat section. She was clearly struggling. Tomorrow could be good if they get OBX going. I would think NWX might take a while

[SchralphMacchio]

I heard similar reports at WP of people literally calling ski patrol from the middle of runs because they just could not get going again.

Maybe time for minimum width requirements on days like this [emoji1787]

I’m joking but half serious, but I swear I’ve heard that when Baker has storms like this it’s mandatory to beep inbounds?

[m9acf4]

I'll be taking my 6 year old to MHM mid April, any recommended ski instrutors for someone that age?

[OregonDead]

What a great late season storm! Was the last rider on Cascade chair and the staff were saying today was most likely the last day they will run it for the season due to a confluence of issues and the fact that they are already winding it down for the season. Glad I got as many Cascade laps in as I did this season


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