joshbu -> Cordova AK

[joshbu]

So this may be my last post for a while. (Yeah, I can hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth in the streets already.)

I'm off on Monday to Cordova, Alaska. I'm not sure if I'm going to have internet access while I'm up there. If so, I'll check in, if not, I want everyone to have a killer time at the summit. I want TRs! Pictures! Video! I doubt Tahoe has any idea what's in store for it.

For the the PacNW'ers, have fun at our mini. I hope you all get superduper deep snow. We could use it.

For everyone else, try not to, well, you guys probably wouldn't listen to me anyways.

Ciao

Joshbu

[joshbu]

<this space reserved for the god damn mother of all trip reports>

[VTskibum]

F YOU Very Much!! Enjoy it and make sure to get plenty of pictures. I want to see some evidence of using the Tabla Rasa's for some Rockstar stuff.

[The AD]

Have fun you lucky bastard, you!

Looking forward to the TR.

[KQ]

Ah Cordova....such a nice little town. Enjoy!!!

[truth]

Originally posted by KQ
Ah Cordova....such a nice little town. Enjoy!!!

The beaches in Cordova are the shizzy.

[joshbu]

Point's North has 802.11 in the main common room now, so I'm back in the posting business.

Today is the second down day in a row for me, (more for some of the other folks here.) Looks like we're going to bootpack out part of the ridge above the Mt. Eyak lift.

Go away rain!

[Buster Highmen]

Feet predicted for the cascades in the next few days.


Just thought you'd wanna know.

[joshbu]

Originally posted by Buster Highmen
Feet predicted for the cascades in the next few days.


Just thought you'd wanna know.

No problem. We picked up 2 plus feet in the last 2 days too. We just can't get out there. As soon as it clears up here it's going to go off.

[ak_powder_monkey]

Originally posted by joshbu
No problem. We picked up 2 plus feet in the last 2 days too. We just can't get out there. As soon as it clears up here it's going to go off.

Not gonna happen for a while Josh, this looks like a classic 3 week storm cycle, cept that it ain't stormy in Anchorage just kinda spitting rain have fun at Eyak though I hear thats a sick ass mountain

[Dr. Crash]

Monkey dude, don't jinx my good friend joshbu here. His trip is 3 weeks and he needs to ski. Storm gotta stop. Send it over here, we don't need helis to get anywhere.

drC

[ak_powder_monkey]

Originally posted by Dr. Crash
Monkey dude, don't jinx my good friend joshbu here. His trip is 3 weeks and he needs to ski. Storm gotta stop. Send it over here, we don't need helis to get anywhere.

drC

Everyone imagine it being clear in Cordova and Dumping in Anchorage (It happened march 17, 2 years ago, 26 inches in a day in the bowl 2 inches at aly) please please please I want more snow

[White Chocolate]

I have a boarder friend that might be up there at points north now or in the near future. son of a bitch has that gold pass valid for 10 years anyway, if you run into a boarder from baker named david tell him what's up from the baker slackers

[joshbu]

No problemo WC.

Eyak was hairy. About 6-10" of slop on a hard-as-steel rain crust. That made for a nice bed layer for your fav and mine... slab avalanches! We skiied basically the ridge line down. No steeps for us. There look like some nice features up there, but the guides were saying Eyak's snowpack is way more unstable than up in the mountians. Hot tip: if you're going heli skiing, bring your touring gear as well. I used mine, and I'm glad I had it.

Not sure yet about today. Maybe flying for the first time tomorrow.

[ak_powder_monkey]

Its snowing like a mofo here I hope you get out today the radar picture makes it look like theres a freaking huge storm coming, just tell Ullr to leave Cordova alone for a bit and send it all here

[joshbu]

On double super secret probation standby today. Could be good...

[joshbu]

So we got two runs in before the snow moved in. The first, off of a ridge called "Whatchamacallit" was just killer. You took about 3 turns to a spine that delimited 2 couloirs. The first 2 dudes down took the left. I got the option to take the right, and it was fucking awesome. I haven't skiied steeps in a while, so I kept the throttle down, mostly. Even then it yielded about 20 turns of deep steepness. Hero, ego, pow.

The second run the light was going flat and the weather was moving in, but I still had a killer time. I got clipped by a pretty good sluff becuase I couldn't tell what was moving and what wasn't.

The heli lift out of there was a little sketch, but PNH's pilots are solid as a rock. No problem.

[ak_powder_monkey]

Weathers been real strange no? Hope you can get some more, and we get more snow

[Dr. Crash]

So how do you like those pow-pow skis, joshbu?

[Edit: pic] http://www.dbskis.com/site/bilder/sk...colors/SKI.gif

drC - Who *loves* his used-but-new-to-me Deep Powder but wouldn't mind lusting after the TR

[joshbu]

Today made it all worthwhile. It went blue at about noon. The storm that drove us off the mountain yesterday deposited about 20+ on the Chugach. (That's no typo. 20+ inches.) It was very, very light, on top of however many feet we already had. It was like for a day the Chugach decided to show Alta the meaning of a pow day. The skiers on the Explosivs decided quickly they weren't on enough ski. The snowboarders were choaking on pow from their face shots. 5 huge runs. I'm pretty much speechless. Anything else I could say wouldn't do it justice.

Dr C: The Tabla's rule. There's a dude here who's going to go home and trade in is M103s for TRs. Another guy is waffling, but will probably pick up a pair. More detail to go in Tech Talk.

[ak_powder_monkey]

Damn 20 inches of this light stuff, sweet sweet sweet, we got about a cm here today and it snowed for like 18 hours glad to hear you got some

[Odin]

Originally posted by joshbu
Anything else I could say wouldn't do it justice.

No TR or Vid or even pics can detail AK. No other place I have been can touch it.

BTW: I ordered up some more snow for you today, as that frontal system is now moooooving in again. No heli time for awhile. Damn Snow

edit - I forgot to mention I heard spilo got a group 39000 ft yesterday.