The SkiNC Utah Summit

[teledave]

After a lengthy drive through a near whiteout we arrived back in SLC around midnight with a few cases of real beer from Wyoming and stories to tell that no one would believe.

After not enough sleep it is off to Alta for the day, they only got 6" at mid mountain overnight. I'm feeling a bit under the weather, touch of a virus along with a long roadie the day before. 'Bird is correcting his planktitudinally challenged ways, we picked him up a pair of XXX's on the way up 7200 S. this morning so he is joining us. The rest of the single plankers went to hit Snowbird, they'll have to tell their own stories.

Arriving at Alta the lower mountain was socked in and bombs were going off like crazy, most of the upper mountain is closed when Collins opens. Heading up Collins we break out of the clouds, looks like once the clouds burn off it will be a bluebird day.

Ropes just dropped on the Shoulder.

Bird on skis for the 1st time in 6 years


Teledave



I wasn't feeling it today, so I bailed early and went to the car for a beer. Met up with Treskow on the bottom floor of the GMD and hung for a while, shared some tales and expressed my regrets for not being able to make the UT Mini the next weekend.

After I got back on the lift I recognized DanTheMan a couple of chairs in front of me. When I got off I stopped to chat with him, bagtagley, Stump, and some others I can't remeber for a minute. On my best day I would have been holding this crew back, so I declined making any runs with them and made a few nice mellow pow runs before lunch.

Some nice Alta scenics


I saw a few tracks up on lookers right of the shoulder of Superior, maggots?
Probably.





Castle just opened


Had to take MBlacky to the airport, and pick up GaTom (aka Marshall Tucker) on Tuesday night. I think both would admit the screwed up by not making the whole week.

Wednesday, gotta hook up with flykdog at Powder Mountain. Someone wanted to know if I knew how to get there, "Hell no!" I figured I was good to just go past Snowbasn and keep going, turns out that was a pretty good plan. It's pouring rain as we leave Salt Lake.

About the time we passed the Sinclair station near Snowbasin the snow started, hard. The drive up to PowMow was pretty rough, wetter, slicker conditions than normal; turns out the storm system that week was always just barely below freezing and PowMow's lack of altitude didn't really help any.

Good to see a familiar face as we rolled into the lot, not much chance of being lost in the crowd at PowMow though. We shared the parking lot with maybe 75 other vehicles all day.

Visibility was somewhere between zero and I can just barely see 2 chairs in front of me, snow is wet, quickly covering the chairs and then soaking your ass on the ride up. Skiing, well it was damn good. Given the visibility we stayed predominately on the Paradise and Timberline chairs, but still had no trouble finding the goods. Next time I want to hit the place on a bluebird after storm day so that I can actually see where I'm going.

GaTom on his first day out


Mr. Stinky


GreshamB


'Bird


Mark


Host for the day-Flykdog


Teledave-doing his best Flykdog imitation


My ass has never been as cold and wet as it was at PowMow, worth every bit of it though.

On to Snowbird and Solitude to wind out the circuit....

tomorrow, maybe.

[Marshall Tucker]

Hey Evan huge thanks for babysitting me/us that day at powmow!!

(and that's a capital G in Gaper)

[Tippster]

...My ass has never been as cold and wet as it was at PowMow, worth every bit of it though...

As an Ober Gatlinburg veteran I would expect you to know that you're supposed to Scotch-Guard your Wranglers before you go skiin'.

[Marshall Tucker]

Stinky labia sandwich? how could that NOT make the TR?

[birdstheword]

chick in hot tub- so what do you do?
bird- im a cashier at wal-mart, and if im nice they allow me to greet....
bird- so what do you do?
chick- im an entertainer.
bird- therez a pole lets see some entertainment.......
utter silence.

chick- so what are your houses made out of?
markhpnc- cardboard boxes, but its not small like you would think... its like 3 boxes taped together.... its big i promise.

a trip down memory lane

tdave

a night in park city

whose luggage is this?

dropping corbets, and no thats not any of us, we looked and pussied out

bird at jackson

the small huck

the landing

cb lays down a nice one on his frist trip out west

the reason uncle mr stinky missed the jackson hole trip

this is what we were in search of during the summit....


and that is the best plate in the state of nc. no question about it

[birdstheword]

I really could use a piece of sausage right now as well. Uncle Stinky, do you have a piece for me?

[Markhpnc]

Feel free to fill in the blanks, Mark. I am seriously lacking on Snowbasin and Alta pics for some reason.

Dingleberry's avatar still mesmerizes me.

Alta & PowMow to come later today. Anyone that wants to host some video let me know, that Snapfish stuff sucks.

Agreed on that avitar. Hmmm, I am thinking the posting of my pics will bump this thread back up sometime in the spring. My schedule is something like work, ride, work, ride, get sucked into messageboard, work, ride...

Keep it coming though Dave.

And who is this Bird/jong/sausage eating fucker?

[teledave]

I gotta get this thing finished up soon. So much to do so little time.

Brighton Day 1 Video

OK, it's mostly just pics set to music but if you are bored at work......

[birdstheword]

this is a boomber thread.

[Blacky1051]

Where's the rest of the TR Dave?

[teledave]

Where's the rest of the TR Dave?

Shut up, Mr. Fur Pants!

[birdstheword]

Shut up, Mr. Fur Pants!

uncle now be nice to nephew

[Blacky1051]

I get the fur from our Aunt

[Marshall Tucker]

5678

[killclimbz]

I can't believe you guys made it up to Jackson. We rode up in the Gondola with you at Snobasin when you were talking about it. With all the snow coming down in Utah that seemed to be a bit of a drive. Way to go!

[birdstheword]

thats boomber u were in our gondola at snowbasin. we got back from the pub at like 11pm or somwhere around then. then some of us had to post on skinc.com so the little wossies that didnt come could see what was going on. then we got in bed around 1230 back up at 2 am and on the road at 3. no 1 of the fab 5 passed out on the way to jackson hole. it was a boomber road trip. we stopped at several gas stations and had a big old time and prob almost got kicked outta one. we were really loud in there.
but the drive up was well wroth it. just check out the pics.

[teledave]

Jackson Hole Video

Eventually this thread wil get finished.

[ridinshockgun]

Dave never finished this thread, but..

The Train Wreck returns next week for the 07 edition, this time its Jackson and Montucky.