New Tahoe Nukeage thread: Xmas Week

[Cirquerider]

Not much to add except that Eagle Bowl opened about 1:00. That side of the mountain took the wind and was buffed into a 4-inch breakable slab. It was nice to ski, and of course any air was well cushioned breaking through into the deep soft snow. The cornices along the wall were big and lots of people were droping into the soft pow below, at least until the traverse lines started to establish. Saw the guy get spit out of Heart Chute from 10 Chair. Really impressive to see that snow spraying horizontally like a firehose.

Backside never did open, so should be good tomorrow.

Edit: to add picture of Elephants Back and Roundtop from 8:30 AM. The spindrift coming off the peaks was impressive, and caused significant slabs and wind deposition. Be careful in the BC. This was also the cause for some consolidated powder conditions.

[skier666]

All this Maggies talk makes me think high school, skiing on GS Races, and skiing countless runs of untracked even on the most crowded weekends.


Next you guys will start talking about skiing OB off Gate A of Killebrew and then cutting back into the traverse to Mott at the last possible moment

[BLOODSWEATSTEEL]

Kirkwood.

WOW. Very Fat Tuesday-esque. I don't even know what to say....Just totally, totally epic.

[gimpy]

as usual, its tough to start out w/ the desert course and today was no exception. started shaking too hard at work and hit the the heave round 2:30ish, or just enough time to make it through the mott gate for 1 lap in promised land/north 40. decent turns, but fuck me running if it wouldn't have been 1000 times better if they woulda popped that sucker yesterday. the wind has buffed and crusted most everything. still good skiing but nothing like yesterday (or this early am on powhouse). was stoked to spot a pair of bros as i was getting on the mott chair and rode up w/ vets so we hooked up for some mellow untracked goodness before i bailed off to maggies and back to work for an hour. maggies was no comparison to yesterday and pretty wind hammerred and there's a good windslab forming w/ all this recent wind. joesnow and i both commented how it was so weird yesterday to be nuking so hard w/ little to no wind, but i guess the wind was just late to the party and reared its nasty slab forming head today . tallac isn't sounding nearly as sweet right now and sheltered trees be where its at (shocker i know).


and they were still blasting a sweet looking closed killebrew when the mott gates closed so its still untouched and looking real sweet but prolly bitchslapped by the wind i'm sorry to say.

[Cirquerider]

gimpy has it right. I was at KW today and it was absolutely bomber for throwing down cornices and chutes, but bottomless....no way. The slab effect from all the wind deposition was just overwhelming, not to mention visibility issues in the wind areas. Good knee deep in the protected zones, and compared to the rain nuking we received over the holiday, it felt great, but I've been around a while, and there has been better. I took 100 pics today, (Canon A620 on 2 shot/second) and almost nothing worth posting. Bummer.

One of these days when I ask for change, I'm going to get it. Skied with some pretty hard core guys today anyway. Nice to get pushed a bit.

Edit: picture added for wind effect (NOT complaining):

[ridefree]

Monday, Go to work downtown. Power is off. Hang out for two hours w/ the crew. Tell them all to go out and ride, I'll hold down the shop for holiday rental returns. Sacrifice.
Tuesday. Go to work at 8a. Power still off. Out the door to Kirkwood 8.05a.
Arrive Kirkwood 9.30A. Ride great snow with great friends 9.30a - 4.00.
Somewhere around 2 on the afternoon, I hook up with the crew to go for the runs with a sizable posse. Plake is in the house. After a chair ride together and some personal instruction, I throw my first backflip ever.
I eat shit. Back for another round and get the biggest, loftiest backflip of the day amongst some great schralping partners.
I am so happy right now. I love snowboarding.
Amazing how a few weeks of hardships are forgotten after an epic day.
See you early tommorrow!!!!!

[splat]

I know gimpy thought the Heave was beat today, but for this cubist, that 3" of crust that was banging against my shins, amidst some slightly lighter fresh made a day for me much as ridefree described it:

Amazing how a few weeks of hardships are forgotten after an epic day.

[FollowMe]

I'm happy for everyone that got out there yesterday and today. Sounds like a stretch that only comes once every couple of years if that. Praise be to Ullr.

[gimpy]

woaaaahhhhh splat. i didn't mean it waas beat by any means, it just wasn't nearly as light and deep as yesterday. still damn good skiing in my book and you and vets got into mott much earlier then i. my only bummness comes from the fact that the bc will be a bit sketch now w/ windslab in open areas.

[splat]

Oh, gimp. You mean it was better than that? You lucky bastid.
Frankly, I was ecstatic just to be skiing again. Get some for me out there, bro.
yeah, the slab is def there.

[runethechamp]

Who will be at Kirkwood tomorrow? I should roll into the parking lot at 8:45 or so.

[Vets]

What a great day!
I am blissfully exhausted.
Great skiing the deep pow with Splat. We managed to find some well protected soft deep snow.
Here is one example:

More later. Also great to meet and ski with Gimpy. I also enjoyed the 179 Brototypes. More on that later too.

[bcrider]

Cool pic Vets.
Protected trees is the best bet for deep snow right now...although with today’s vis I’m sure deep snow will take a back seat to more burl lines.

Today is going to be "the" day as far as visibility, wide open from the foothills to the Sierras, only one small cloud. TFBB. Stuff will go down today no doubt. So stoked to be at work!

Ps. no reports from lph, hop, or aka…was it that good yesterday?

[enlosandes]

BCR, "the world needs ditch digger's too Danny".

[Son1cdeth]

Man, this thread has taken more turns than a mountain road....glad it's ending with some good skiing to be had!


Freshies, I'm so glad you didn't delete this thread, it's definitely hall of fame material

[Superstar Punani]

Yeah, it would totally be worth it. Wait for the rest of the crew to get back and report in to see if it opened or not. Even if it did, it would have been sometime after 12:30 I'm guessing, and by that time, a lot of people were already leaving (chair 10 & chair 6 were BOTH having power problems), so it would still be good.

*cough cough* The powdered medication was just what I needed. Tuesday was a sick sick day with lph, shoe, crack, hop, hardrider, with guest appearances by the mohican terrorist, original badboy and star of maltese flamingo, a low budget dirtbag ski-movie.

We ripped the shit out of this, ripped the shit out of that, dropped this and that. traversed out to there, then to here where we scored it all to ourselves. Hop drops kodak like it's hot. chairs break down, ripped more shit here and there. drove home. the end.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Hop drops kodak like it's hot.

Bastardo!! That was my one regret in leaving early...I knew you fockers would nail Kodak if that area opened up. Next time.

Hope your flu is clearing up a little today Pu

[Superstar Punani]

Bastardo!! That was my one regret in leaving early...I knew you fockers would nail Kodak if that area opened up. Next time.

Hope your flu is clearing up a little today Pu

*cough* *cough*

I may need to go get some liquid medication from the beachside pharmacy at lunchtime today.

Holyfuckingshit!
SURF:
18-20 ft. - 4 times overhead with occasional 28 ft.

[shirk]

*cough cough* The powdered medication was just what I needed. Tuesday was a sick sick day with lph, shoe, crack, hop, hardrider, with guest appearances by the mohican terrorist, original badboy and star of maltese flamingo, a low budget dirtbag ski-movie.

We ripped the shit out of this, ripped the shit out of that, dropped this and that. traversed out to there, then to here where we scored it all to ourselves. Hop drops kodak like it's hot. chairs break down, ripped more shit here and there. drove home. the end.

where are the pictures wiener boy

[hop]

Ps. no reports from lph, hop, or aka…was it that good yesterday?

It was that good yesterday. SP and I made the drive up from my house at 2200 and pulled into lph's driveway at 0200. Up at some early-ish hour, drive to KW, and get, oh, 50th chair? Apparently it's not as epic fluffy as yesterday but it's super smooth and fast, so we do what any normal people would do in our situation and start skiing pow on the way to and from things to jump off.
Then the lifts shut down so we take a break and eat some lunch.
Then the lifts started up again so we continued skiing pow and jumping off stuff.
Then the lifts shut down and we drove to 88 Giant Burgers and ate giant burgers.
Then we drove home. I'm going surfing today.
I do have pics but they're mostly of driving and stuff. I couldn't quite master the ski pics thing yet. lph has some video.

Edit for Shirk: SuPu was really convincing on the phone when he called in sick. I even heard him coughing outside the car! Hopefully those avy bombs going off in the background were drowned out by his sick performance.

[Superstar Punani]

I do have pics but they're mostly of driving and stuff. I couldn't quite master the ski pics thing yet. lph has some video.

I like the Hardrider patented "Dump-truck" air steeze

[hop]

I like the Hardrider patented "Dump-truck" air steeze

umm, I don't know what you're talking about...

[shirk]

sounds like a fun kweed day.

SuPu-*cough* uh boss I can't come in today <KABOOOOOOOM> *cough*
Boss-what was that noise
SuPu- uh car backfire <KABOOOOOOOM>
Boss- uh really um, sure about that
SuPu- *cough* ya real sick here gotta run for the chair, I mean washroom*cough cough

[Huckwheat]

Wow Kirkwood sounds like it has been sick.

Late report from Monday but......

I wanted to throw props out to Lego and Divegirl, for their Sunday Sugarbowl recommendation. We went there on Monday, and it was a great storm day. It was my first powder day of the season and it was pretty awesome (a good foot plus of wet snow, entire mountain open, and just dumping).

[splat]

Good to see Pu still knows how to fake a sick day.