1/28-29 W/B TR Wow!!

[rbtree]

It is 11:30 Sunday evening, I'm on powder11's puter, and watching it nuke outside, already 8 inches on his hottub cover since we last used it at 8 pm!! Holee molee, it's a gonna be epic on the hill tomorrow!!!

Here's pics from today. We started out on Chainsaw Ridge...Atrain and Samwich provided the thrill of the day by trying to drop skier's right of 5-0, which was way boney. From below, powder11 was watching as Eroc Peyota stopped by to watch. He commented that it was too low snow cover to be in there, then yelled up to the guys to straight run it. Atrain did just that, after gingerly picking his way down into the choke as best he could, then dropped into the chute--onto ice!! He got through the chute, only to explode on the runout, huge spray flying as he tumbled toward Richard who moved back a bit to avoid being tagged. Samwich yelled down to ask how it was, and in retorted, "It's ice!!" But Sam's ears heard "It's nice!?!" Sam, puckered up tighter than a weeklong constipated colon, gingerly tiptoed down the chute, while a couple of us skied down, to lap back around to pick up any body parts....Postman and Atrain stayed to witness Samwich straightline the chute and all the way to the Jersey Cream flats, hitting close to 100km/h? He was later heard to croak, "I'm sure glad I took a healthy dump this morning!!" I'll let Sam tell his version later!

Then we traipsed up Spanky's ladder to an epic line in Sapphire Bowl.

After that sweetness, the herd thinned, and Atrain, Samwich and postman graciously led me to Disease Ridge, which turned out to be an awesome adventure and surely the best run ever at W/B for me!!

Powder11 rips



Atrain about to air the rocks...I had accidentally switched off the sequence shooting on this toy camera(all I have till my $7000 worth that was stolen this week gets replaced

New lurking maggot Tim sends it



Atop BC glacier, about to reach Disease Ridge

Damn, what a face!

Yummm!!

Atrain smokes the face first...

followed by Samwich, providing a powder filling



And the postman delivers the goods

[bigtrubs]

Sweet photos!!! Glad to see what I missed while I was getting some SERIOUS pow at mount cain!!!

[XtrPickels]

I never realized the Bro's were that center mounted...looks that way at least

Good job out there guys

[rbtree]

bigtrub adubdub...I've heard good things about Mt. Cain...sure is way up island a long ways though, eh?

We were all looking over our shoulders yesterday, wondering if and when we were gonna be stalked by ya.....

It has quit snowing here in the Valley, but there's easily 9 inches of new, which could equate to 15-20 on the hill...yummmm!! We're all thinking of going for Fresh Tracks Breaky this morning.
Edit, morning report's up, it says 40 cm of new, and minus 5 in the alpine. It is still -1 in the valley, looks like we dodged the worst of the warm front, which appears to have hammered XTal with another 3.5 inches of water content, some of it in the form of rain. What a shame!

Be careful out there today, avy danger is bound to be mighty high everywhere!

[LeeLau]

sorry i missed you guys/ I was powder pigging over on the musical bumps. Did the pow111 thing and dropped into excitation with flat light - so much snow!! Such a treat to ride that pig with good coverage. I had to use an old trick and drop a spare cordelette onto the surface to give myself a landing spot. What a rush!! Highway was a mess last night. Will be up again wed onwards

[milkman]

Today looks like it'll be insane. Sat was already deeep.... VD chutes and West Cirque into West Bowl were amazing. Nice work on Disease Ridge. Haven't been there this year yet. Looks good. Ran into Atrain in a super rowdy peak chair lineup. Thanks for letting me fondle the Bro's man.

[belgian]

Caption needed, caption needed VERY badly.

[powder11]

today was over the top. literally. 43cms of blower pow. the insane part is that theres more monster storms lined up to keep pooping on us. my legs are shredded.

[powder11]

Harveys or Robertsons? Nice one

reservoir trees on 7th Heaven. Im headed over to his house to see the rest. possibly post some here later. Roger aka rbtree has some decent pics from today as well.

[seatosky]

Great pic powder11, this office slob is jealous. Taking the day off on thursday, should be ridiculous.

[powder11]

Today looks like it'll be insane. Sat was already deeep.... VD chutes and West Cirque into West Bowl were amazing. Nice work on Disease Ridge. Haven't been there this year yet. Looks good. Ran into Atrain in a super rowdy peak chair lineup. Thanks for letting me fondle the Bro's man.

that was a hell of a snowball fight. I cant believe the RCMP had to break it up!! atrain and I scored 1st trax into whistler bowl and shale slope. it was like heli skiing.

[bigtrubs]

Thanks for letting me fondle the Bro's man.

Teehee, you said fondle.

bigtrub adubdub...I've heard good things about Mt. Cain...sure is way up island a long ways though, eh?

We were all looking over our shoulders yesterday, wondering if and when we were gonna be stalked by ya.....

Actually, I was wondering when you all would be stalking me, duh.

Cain was EPIC, got just as much snow as you guys, but I only had to share it with 200 other people! We almost died a few times on the drive home, it took 8.5 instead of 5.5 hrs to drive home. TR on the way...

[Squirrel99]

this office slob is jealous. Taking the day off on thursday.

Ditto! (except the thursday day off thing)

Seatosky, go git sum!

[schuss]

Caption needed, caption needed VERY badly.

brokeback glacier?

[postman22]

well me and 3 other guys who I don't want to name are banned for a month for the pics on the top there.

fucking shitty luck. guess i'l have to start touring

[powder11]

well me and 3 other guys who I don't want to name are banned for a month for the pics on the top there.

fucking shitty luck. guess i'l have to start touring

thats sucks balls! I cant believe they did that to you guys... get an edge card under an alias.

[trouble]

what? banned from the mountain?

[powder11]

what? banned from the mountain?

yes. dont even think about skiing closures. examples are being made.

[pointedem]

banned for a month?

ya dont say?

posting shots from OB ( i gather from your story- i dont have a clue where you took those) online and telling everyone that you ducked permanently closed ropes.

what did you expect.

at least you got the TGR TR glory....

[powder11]

what did you expect.

at least you got the TGR TR glory....

the line in question has only recently been shut down by patrol due to someone dying on a similar type entrance. W/B patrol have been super lax in the past about skiing closures. basicaly the policy was dont screw up and you'll find no trouble. after a couple deaths this year, patrol is tightening up their closure policy. thats pretty much the point of the post. no need to be a douche when you have no clue what your talking about.

[pointedem]

dude,
when you blatently call out that you skied a perm closed area on a public board?
wasnt trying to be a dick, but

[powder11]

dude,
when you blatently call out that you skied a perm closed area on a public board?
wasnt trying to be a dick, but

they were busted way before any calling out on this forum. the point of the call out is to inform other W/B skiers that patrol is no longer letting closures get skied without consequence. I skied a closure right in front of patrol last season and his response was "nice turns" thats no longer the case.

[pointedem]

ahhh gotcha.

more stoms on the way...
u guys look lined up

[postman22]

yeah it was a really stupid move on our part

busy weekend and sunshine.

ski patrol basically said they were forced to because there were so many people however had it been a weekday there is a 90 percent chance that nothing would of been done.

anyway i guess i have to learn from my mistakes the hard way this time

[milkman]

that was a hell of a snowball fight. I cant believe the RCMP had to break it up!! atrain and I scored 1st trax into whistler bowl and shale slope. it was like heli skiing.

Shit. Didn't know that was you with Atrain. Should have introduced myself. I was laughing my ass off when the group of ski schoolers were forced from cutting in line by the relentless barrage of snowballs...Was thinkin' about dropping Whistler bowl myself, but after standing in that line for over an hour, wanted a longer run. First tracks into West Cirque and West Bowl were crazy. Haven't been first man into West Bowl in a long time....