TR: Too Deep To Ski

[RootSkier]

Rasputin, where do you get your Snowbowl numbers? From Stuart Peak SNOTEL? That is showing about what you said...but I could've sworn there was another one up there by Point Six.

[johngchrist]

how was the snow layer under the 30"? Did You get stuck at all? O and Sick pictures

[bcrider]

Holy deepness.

Looks sick, enjoy!

[slippy]

No, it was a 2 day storm...there was a hard layer underneath which helped a lot......and we each got stuck about 7 times. It wasn't bad digging out since it was light snow, unless you found a bottomless ditch. It was my third day sledding in a row, so yes I burnt a few calories. Thousands and thousands of them. They are now reporting at least 48" from the storm, which makes more sense than 30". We only got to about 7500 and it was at least 3 feet deep.

Wish I had pics of sledding in the middle of the storm on Saturday night. The headlights were always submerged so it was a little eerie.

[Buzzworthy]

Nice action Slippy. Looks like some fun ridin!!

[hemlock hiker]

5%. That is sweetness, I am used to the Sierra concrete. Where can I get me some of that?

[AH]

Mr.Dali Lamas
Another sister's shootin' heroin tomarrow
Amputees in Freetown
Sierra Leone's
The church wasnt honest
The state put the youth in a harness
Creatin' hostility among us
Teacher said no college
Still the kid's gotta get a check with a couple commas
People wanna bomb us
More people gotta scatter and run rom us
You can blame it on Zeus and Apollo and Adonis

But what you've done here
Is put yourself between a bullet and a target
And it won't be long before
You're pulling yourself away

But what you've done here
Is put yourself between a bullet and a target
And it won't be long before
You're pulling yourself away

I've been knowing her for years
I've been seeing her foor years she got dark, dark wavy hair
With a voice like she just don't care
She got a skirt with a halter top
She's got a dad who nevr gave enough
She drink a beer with a proper shot
She got knocked up in a pickup truck
But she got engaged when she was nineteen
To this dude who was acting insane
Has a .45 that he always cleaned
Said one day one day one too many days
Now she ducked and she ran away
Never to be heard from, never to be seen
I check the cover of a magazine
I'm just wondering how, just wondering how

But what you've done here
Is put yourself between a bullet and a target
And it won't be long before
You're pulling yourself away

.........

[freezorburn]

Awsome!!!
________
YZ85

[baseWeldr]

reminds me of your somewhat distance shot in stimulus of a sled makin deep turns down a nice long pitch- you think its a skier 'til the machine finally porpoises up out of the snow...
siiick storm (as in homesick)

The Snow Gods continued to smile on us yesterday dropping another 6 inches in the Bridger Range and 1-2 inches everywhere else. The snowfall since Saturday was elevation dependant with amounts near the ridgetops being far greater than the snow sensors let on. In the Bridger and northern Gallatins at least 48 inches fell on these upper slopes while 18-24 inches are in the mountains around Lone Peak. In the southern ranges the new snow amounts are showing 12 inches, although I expect they too would be greater with elevation.

BB to open this weekend then be open for the season on 12/9... /snowphone

[alto]

bump bump

[midget]

come on slip lets see some video! Damn that really looks horrible!

[slippy]

Honestly I didn't even think of bringing the video camera. No regrets either.

[Rufus]

scwiiiing! my nipple are hard...

[skibuminwyo]

that...was....awesome!!!

[ak_powder_monkey]

ummmm thats deep

[72Twenty]

I looked at this picture before I read the text (as I usually do ) and I thought you were skiing uphill.

[skigay]

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[baseWeldr]

MOUNTAIN WEATHER

The northern mountains got hit again, so slam your morning coffee and throw a coat of purple wax on your boards because it’s chilly out there. A strong northwest current dumped 20 inches of fluffy powder in the Bridgers. The northern Gallatins are showing another 6-8 inches while the rest of our area got 3-6 inches with snowfall amounts tapering off to the south. Mountain temperatures this morning are reading –8F up north to +8F down south. Ridgetop winds are starting to subside from their strong westerly gusts at 50 mph to a more southwest flow at 10-20 mph. Cloudy skies will clear by tonight as a stable, dry and bitter cold airmass settles in. Winds will remain light and temperatures will only rise into the single digits before plummeting to 20 below this evening.


SNOWPACK AND AVALANCHE DISCUSSION

The Bridger Range:

With 20 inches of new and temperatures at –8F in the Bridgers there won’t be any “lightweights” in the backcountry today. For me, I’m staying in the warm office and waiting for the hard men to break all those trails. Yesterday, some folks skied along the ridge and found many wind pillows that were cracking, collapsing and easily avalanching. Our concerns are limited to these wind loaded areas where you’ll likely trigger a slide today. With 20 inches of low-density snow there’s plenty of ammunition to feed these wind slabs. For today in the Bridger Range the avalanche danger is CONSIDERABLE on wind-loaded slopes steeper than 35 degrees. Slopes not affected by the wind will be eyeball deep and only have a MODERATE danger if they’re steeper than 35 degrees and LOW danger on lower angled slopes

edit-BB not open again til friday...