tahoe firing!!!!

[basom]

wooo hooooo bring it on!

i had one of the best days i have yet at squaw today. got some stuff done early with the filming and then it was just on. checked a lot of stuff on my list today. hits and lines i've been wanting to ski and hadnt sacked up for yet.

the fingers are skiing great.
headwall opened at 2ish and provided a must ski bell to bell day.
god damn that shit was fun.
light towers were so deep.
i cant even process all the radness from today. i did participate in an 18 man simulski of the waterfall line in the fingers while kt was stopped, that stands out.

[skimoore]

i did participate 18 man simulski of the waterfall line in the fingers while kt was stopped, that stands out.

If it wasn't holding hands, I'm not impressed...

Sooooo stoked to get up there, just waiting for the 666 powder express to pick me up....

[freshies]

cue the "Jaws" theme song

[The Dad]

(still) waiting for winter...(or spring training, whatever comes first)

OSPP



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[ryank]

Look at this next storm in this precip model (at 72 hours)..

Not sure if Tahoe will get any of it. Canada certainly will.

http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~ove...d1_pcp3+//72/3

[3snowboards]

This should be interesting!

[gimpy]

mmmmmm, mmmmmmm good. today restored my faith in resort skiing as i was about ready to give it up. lots of great deep snow, sun shining, lots of cool folks beaming ear to ear, and plenty of untracked to be had. my intended 1-2 hrs on the hill turned into 5. saw patrol pulling some poor bloke out of a hollow creek hole w/ a rope under sky chair. poor bastard. and in another story, i heard that some guy who got 1st chair on gunbarrel really nailed it. not long after loading his tips dug into the snowbank 50' up the chair and faceplanted right off the chair. and he proceeded to take a ski off the guy sitting next to him w/ him. later overheard the guy who lost his ski saying that he waited up top for someone to bring him his ski but it never came. poor bastard.

went to lunch at sprouts and ran into my buds that i bailed on going up p-house this am and they said it was all-time. best runs of their life. they were prolly just trying to rub it in my face giving me shit for riding the lifts but i almost believe them given the conditions right now. so track is punched and is skiing like never before (allegedly). i'll be there manana though the track will prolly be covered back up by then. storm looks to be coming in as we speak though it does seem to presently be stalled out over the echo peak ridgeline but it should make it over soon.

looks like the carson valley got a good coat of snow and someone told me there was a foot in gardnerville. sooooo, w/ this next storm coming in, its time to set up some car shuttles and ski some of the biggest vert lines in tahoe. jobs peak and porcupine ridge are looking really fucking good right now. in fact, everything is looking really fucking good right now and other then the high avy rating, it looks pretty stable out there. didn't really see any big natural releases anywhere but i wasn't on any really steep terrain (it was heavenly after all) to gauge it 1sthand. the terrain menu we've got to choose from has just expanded 100 fold from just a week ago. god damn i love this shit!!!!

[Kellie]

I love the stoke in your "voice!" Kellie <--- contemplating getting on a plane if this keeps up!

[lph]

gimpy, drove out to kirkwood today at 1pm and didn't see any obvious slides.

also, did you happen to notice tracks on the face of flagpole or was I hallucinating.

last two hours of the day at kirkwood were a blast. ripped a couple quick laps on the front with AKA and his buds, they bailed from fatique. I immediately met up with Lou and we proceeded to do 4 of the fastest pali runs i can imagine. 3 on a 'middle' traverse, not sure who punched it in but it required minimal work and got you a couple extra turns. Then we ended on the high T for a top to bottom run. It was untracked and we planned on shooting a couple pics as we had caught the last chair, but our perfect lighting got blotted out by the storm clouds on the way out there.

another foot tonight.

see you guys in the lineup.

Oh, and AKA wanted me to be sure I posted that he fell of the traverse out to Pali. Says it was the first time ever and he wanted everyone to know.

[hop]

I love the stoke in your "voice!" Kellie <--- contemplating getting on a plane if this keeps up!

I'll pick you up at the airport of your choice providing it's Oakland, Sac, or SFO.

See you soon!

[lph]

Oh shit!!! Hop is coming up!!! Not to mention, Shoe is coming up, 666, slim, AKA......... you KNOW tomorrow is gonna go off.

KODAK, KODAK, KODAK!!!


fuck i'm bringing my video camera for this.

[Greydon Clark]

also, did you happen to notice tracks on the face of flagpole or was I hallucinating.

[runethechamp]

I'll be there.

[hop]

Oh shit!!! Hop is coming up!!! Not to mention, Shoe is coming up, 666, slim, AKA......... you KNOW tomorrow is gonna go off.

KODAK, KODAK, KODAK!!!


fuck i'm bringing my video camera for this.

Dammmit I missed the 666 carpool pain train by an hour. I hate my life.

Let's see if I can make this happen...

Edit: Fast forward a half hour:
I'm packing my car and driving up solo for the "day", but I'm bringing enough stuff for a week or more if need be.

See you fools in line!

[lph]

Dammmit I missed the 666 carpool pain train by an hour. I hate my life.

Let's see if I can make this happen...

DOOOOOOOOOOO IT!!!

Rune, see you there tomorrow!

[jed peters]

Oh shit!!! Hop is coming up!!! Not to mention, Shoe is coming up, 666, slim, AKA......... you KNOW tomorrow is gonna go off.

KODAK, KODAK, KODAK!!!


fuck i'm bringing my video camera for this.

I'm going to try to come up with mr and mrs shoe.

I kinda invited myself, we'll see.

[StormDay]

yep... Alpine was gooooooood!!!!

Good to see the new work situation(and part time gig) is working out!

[Cirquerider]

Kirkwood was OK today. Chair 6 turned at about 10, and Chair 10 went off just after noon. Amazing to me is how much the wall has filled. I was about 15 chairs back when the wall opened. The top was heavily drifted and you had to go over about 4 ten foot drifts to reach the wall proper. No cat-track today. The wall filled. Soft good snow over what 4 days ago was rock. The high wall had people sending 25 foot airs into soft fluff with no consequences. My first run off the wall was soft and nearly untracked from the cornice to the drain chute. The chute was filled and had a small slide at the top. So soft, even I could straighline into the drain.

Oh, AK Rocket Swallowtails rule in pow! After a few laps on 10, went back to 6 and they dropped to ropes to Sentinel and Palisades. The traverse was perfect and was easy to get to Sentinel ridge. From there sweet soft turns all the way into Timber Creek. "Best skiing of the day. I haven't downloaded pics, yet but I have some.

Tomorrow. Even better, lighter, deeper. Get some.

BTW, anyone know who was sending the cliffs above Jim's?

[mc_roon]

today was very good at kirkwood. right from the opening at 10am of chair 6 they had wagon wheel bowl open, the best run I have had all season. They opened sentinel around 12:15 and palisades aroung 12:45. And, since chair 10 opened at the same time, it was fucking empty.

as lph said, there was an insane traverse across to pali. Im pretty sure that patrol did it, because i was one of the first dozen people out to sentinel and it was set all the way to pali already.

Finally, there were some very nice hucks done today. Big Jims was hit six(6) times in about a 10 minute period around 2pm. Including a guy on baby blue bros WHO THREW THE LARGEST SICKEST BACKFLIP OFF BIG JIMS THAT I HAVE EVER FUCKING SEEN!!!! was anyone else witness to that insanity?
I have vidoes of two guys hucking, but not the backflip. I will upload them later.

i now have to make up two fully days of shit that I really couldnt afford to miss.

[Sierra Cement]

Not a bad day for what is still classified as a "work day". I think I'll be remembering this one as Fat Tuesday.....only off by 1 week you know.

Yep, a work day:


Well, maybe not:


Found a different prespective on things up here:


Quite different than the usual grind:








Scoping out future work at Montblah.


A co worker....yeah.










I talked to one of the regular trailbreakers on Flagpole earlier today who also happens to live near the bottom. He confirmed a couple of folks hit Echo, but said no one had been up the pole yet. That's not the mountain I'd want to be skinning up this morning. But skiing down would have been epic, if you survived.

Post up those Kirkwood pics. That had to be insane today!

[slim]

Zippy... call in sick tomorrow. Your boss will never know.

[gimpy]

nicely joe. might try to join ya for a lunch lap in the break manana. change of plans for the dp. gonna take advantage of the track up echo instead of p-house. and i didn't see any trax off flagpole, just some sluff thru the lil tree notch.


doooooo it kellie

[kona12]

Some one give me a report from the mountains. I need to decide if I am sick for tomorrow and the radar and cams look like this round disappeared? I know any day skiing is better than work but I need to milk my sick days....help!

[freshies]

9:50 here in TD/Truckee and its lightly snowing and cold out...but only 2" or so has fallen this evening, certainly not dumping by any means...but maybe its supposed to do this all night (we hope). tough call.

[mc_roon]

9:50 here in TD/Truckee and its lightly snowing and cold out...but only 2" or so has fallen this evening, certainly not dumping by any means...but maybe its supposed to do this all night (we hope). tough call.

judging from the non-stop downpour that i drove through getting home, the dumping isnt far off.