Fuckin Early Ups!!

[Alkasquawlik]

Oh yeah, gettin first chair at 7:45 at Alpine tomorrow morning! My first early-ups ever that ain't related to training gates. Should be sick, about 3 feet of untouched on the upper mountain. Will follow through with report tomorrow night. This is a damn good day-late christmas present. Peace.

[Alkasquawlik]

Just adding this shit cause I didn't want to start a new thread and this one is lame already, so I might as well add more blabber.

Tonight
Snow becoming scattered snow showers by midnight. Additional snow accumulations of 1 to 3 inches. Lows 7 to 17. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
Friday
Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers. Highs 23 to 33. West winds around 10 mph.
Friday Night
Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers. Lows 8 to 18. West winds up to 10 mph.
Saturday
Partly cloudy with a chance of snow. Highs 24 to 34. West winds 10 to 20 mph.
Saturday Night
Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Lows 10 to 20. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph.
Sunday
Mostly cloudy and brisk with a chance of snow. Highs 29 to 39.
Sunday Night
Brisk...snow. Lows 15 to 25.
Monday
Brisk with snow likely. Highs 29 to 39.
Monday Night
Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Lows 8 to 18.
Tuesday
Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Highs 29 to 39.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy with a chance of snow. Lows 11 to 21.
Wednesday
Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of snow. Highs 31 to 41.
Wednesday Night
Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of snow. Lows 14 to 24.
New Years Day
Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow. Highs 31 to 41.

[Lumpy]

Jez don't suck it all dry before it gets to Utah . Have fukkin a blast in the AM!!!

[Spats]

3 hours sleep, 8 hours driving, 7 hours of skiing, and I am fried like onion rings.

Rolled up to the liftline about 8:15, yelled "Minion Roll Call!" and got change for a nickel. Evidently something got screwed up with the early ups because the Omen crew were stuck with us plebes Glad to meet you guys, and I hope you got some shots during the minute or two of sun. Summit starts turning around 8:40, and since they're going to be setting up shots, we part ways.

Nothing past Wolverine was open yesterday, and neither was either backside traverse, so much terrain was ready for shralping -- once patrol turned the signs around. As it was, I burned a quick chop-buster down the center and lapped back up, meeting a Patrol guy at the top who asks:

Patrol: "You want to follow me into Beaver?"
Me: "Is this some sort of trick question?"

I follow him, he flips the sign, I drop in. Freshness ensues. Woo-ha!

Next lap, the high traverse has just opened. I herringbone past a bunch of people on the way up and get to the corner above High Yellow in time for fresh tracks all the way down to Sherwood.

Back to frontside. I find some great turns under a 10-footer in Expert Shortcut but can't find them again. Sometime later, High Beaver opens up, and I score one mediocre run and two excellent runs through the rocks in Idiot's, both in the afternoon -- I guess people were scared of the cornice.

Now it's pretty much all chop and leftovers. I hit Sisters, Palisades, pretty much everywhere except Scott and Promised Land, which were taken yesterday. Snow is not light but it is cold and dry, making that pleasant squeaky noise, and even the backside is fluffy chop instead of mashed potatoes or ice.

Today's word: creamylicious.

[Alkasquawlik]

Damn primadonnas. Skogen showed up about 1 minute late and we missed the early load of patrol by two chairs and then they wouldn't let us up. I was almost an hour early too. But it ended up being super fun anyways. Some was definitely gotten. The crew was Jessica Soblowski, Ingrid Backstrom, Skogen, Matt Levinthal and myslef and we got some deep deep pow that closely resembled the utard powder. That's a scary thing in Tahoe. It's currently 0 degrees. We took down some double drops off in Beaver and I got a straightline to triple trop at super g speed in the Buttress. All the Alpiners probably know the exact chute I'm talking 'bout. The landings were sooooo fluffy, like landing it a pile of 100 down comforters. The snow was so sweet that sending 30 feet to flat was completely stompable. So, even though it was a failure for early-ups the skiing was sick, I met a maggot (Hi Spats) and got some good shots.

Oh yeah, I found $1500 laying in the snow at the top of Summit. But even though images of down payments on a new sled were racing through my head, I took the money and wallet, held on to it and gave it back. My honesty didn't go unrewarded, he gave me $200 for making his day and not ruining his christmas vacation.

[Stikki]

^^^ Karma was just testing you. The reward actually came first.

[Dexter Rutecki]

Alka's a solid, solid dude, no doubt.
So Skogen cost you early ups, eh? Dude snaked my line last year and took all the snow off a rock I wanted to land on...but you know them rock stars.
This may be the last Tahoe thread I read for awhile, at least until it snows around here. You guys are killing me.

[Lumpy]

Originally posted by Spats
As it was, I burned a quick chop-buster down the center and lapped back up, meeting a Patrol guy at the top who asks:

Patrol: "You want to follow me into Beaver?"
Me: "Is this some sort of trick question?"

I follow him, he flips the sign, I drop in. Freshness ensues. Woo-ha!

Next lap, the high traverse has just opened. I herringbone past a bunch of people on the way up and get to the corner above High Yellow in time for fresh tracks all the way down to Sherwood.

Typical Spats luck!!! Way to git some bro!!