WOOT WOOT! Nukin' in Missoula

[stuckathuntermtn]

whoo!

wow, why the fuck would you go outta bounds when it's nuking like that?

[Rasputin]

Ha! I love how those old dudes totally rip.
I think I saw Rasputin from the chair, but not knowing his real name, I didn't wanna shout like a dickhead.

Good, cuz like a dickhead is the worst way to shout from the lift. Keep showing up for opening bell on powder days, and you'll meet me soon enough, though in today's insane throng I was hidden amongst the masses.

Incidentally, I was riding today with couple of the beaver tail mafia, none other than "Up Chuck" and "The Hoe Man".

[Rasputin]

Oh, and, WOOT WOOT, powder Wednesday!

And more to come......

[mercuryhg]

Brrr, I guess I'm too much of a woos to brave these cold temps. Yesterday was yummy though.

On yesterday's slide, note Karkanan's language on the Avy email:

"I would not be surprised to see a soft slab avalanche step down to this deeper weakness. This would be an unsurvivable and destructive avalanche."

Those guys got lucky yesterday.

I look forward to the report of the slide site, they plan to go up today and inspect.

[406]

I look forward to the report of the slide site, they plan to go up today and inspect.

Yeah, ski patrol was giving Dudley an escort up this morning.

Was insanely good today.

Also got to ride Griz chair with Rasputan.

[Rasputin]

Good to meet 406 today.

Sadly, someone got lost tonight, no word as of 7:30pm tonight. May he make it home alive.

The signs at Snowbowl were clear, "Extreme avalanche danger". With much, thigh deep, untracked in-bounds, currently there is no good reason to dip into the cake before it's cooked.

If you can hike to untracked, perhaps you have the energy to find it in the less traveled regions of the area. Riding a lift is not a sin.

I skied knee deep powder right down into the lot today, which means all lower mountain terrain is skiable; The Bowl is stuffed like a Christmas Goose.

I expect it will keep delivering all season. Mt. Dumpy, woot woot!

edit: the currently reported 50 inches at the base is the most I recall seeing reported in the past seven seasons.

[word929]

So at the end of Wednesday, which was the best day at I've seen at the bowl (conditions wise, not so much crowd wise), I managed to lose a ski in the Booze Box area. In fact, I ate shit off of that cliff, and then my ski was MIA. I'm with Rasputin that poking around out of bounds currently is not a supremely good idea, and I will be out of Missoula on the 3rd, so I don't think I will have a time to go get it.

Here is my proposition for any of you current Snowbowl skiers. I have a $150 + shipping for anyone that can find it. It's a blue and white Faction Royale with a Marker Duke on it. You can PM me if you want more clear directions to where I think it is. If you have a metal detector, I don't think it would be that hard to find, but I couldn't find it in the 1.5 hours I spent digging, and it was a long run out Paradise on one ski at 5 o'clock.

The disclaimer: It is outside the ski area boundary, so please don't going looking for it without the appropriate gear, and give Bowl Patrol a heads up. Also, you're looking at your own risk, and $150 is not worth hurting yourself.

I hope you all are enjoying the Bowl, as I sit in morning with one ski. It was rad up there on Wednesday.

[senior researcher]

Pet Rock?

[word929]

I haven't been a snowbowl pass holder for almost a decade, so I'm not sure of the names of anything. Its the area just outside the boundary to the skiers left of the lower entry to East Bowl. The traverse out brings you the bottom of the hill on North Dakota downhill. Pet Rock sounds right, it's maybe a 10-15 footer, but has a good take off and you could send it a ways if you wanted (I didn't). We think maybe my ski took off down into the skis below it, but there was no ski track, and nobody saw it. I thought I was going to stick my landing, but then went head over heals and that was all she wrote.

[RootSkier]

Just another mediocre day at Snowbird...



...stolen from Snowbowl's facebook.

[word929]

Ski is found. I went back today with a metal detector, but ended up seeing it like 500 yards further down than we expected. It was damn near Jenny Lake. It was a bitch of hike out, but I was grinning the whole way because I had found the MIA ski. Thanks to all you missoula folk who offered help and spare skis.

[Fear Of A Flat Planet]

Ski is found. I went back today with a metal detector, but ended up seeing it like 500 yards further down than we expected. It was damn near Jenny Lake. It was a bitch of hike out, but I was grinning the whole way because I had found the MIA ski. Thanks to all you missoula folk who offered help and spare skis.

wow. good work searchin.

[Rasputin]

Pretty mountain these days.

[senior researcher]

COLDSMOKE woot!

[RootSkier]

Help a kid ski this winter.

I am involved, as a volunteer, with a kid who has been through some incredibly fucked up situations due to family issues. For the past few winters he has been in places where he has been lucky enough to be able to go skiing at least a few times and those places have funded rentals etc.

This year he is not in a situation like that, but do to the generosity of some other mags we have already scored him a five pack at his local hill.

I have a pair of boots for him, and now I am looking for a very cheap or hopefully free pair of skis with binders for him. They don't have to be sweet boards or anything, but something that is 180-185ish and maybe a bit wider than 70 underfoot, and not horribly beat. BSL 345, but I can definitely remount or whatever.

If you have anything that fits this criteria you can make a kid who has had a rough go of it very happy this winter. Thanks.

[Mudfoot]

Pretty mountain these days.

How did all those tracks get under the cliffs? Aren't they closed from the top? Poachers?

[RootSkier]

Traverse from Paradise.

In other news, that was the deepest 0" I've ever skied.

[Leshphilling77]

or traverse from far east > tree chute > china bowl

[riokarma]

Traverse from Paradise.

In other news, that was the deepest 0" I've ever skied.

How was it at the end of the day. I'll be up at first bell tomorrow.

And yes, a few ways in there. East of far East>tree shoot or South of da Border.

[Bob Loblaw]

it was like a snowglobe at the end of the day, swirly,light,andfluffy

and keep us posted rootskier, i imagine there're a few options for your kid.

[406]

^^^did it snow up there all day? Looks like we got about 5" of new on the parents deck in the last 24h.

[mercuryhg]

How was it at the end of the day. I'll be up at first bell tomorrow.

And yes, a few ways in there. East of far East>tree shoot or South of da Border.

It was yummy!

No, SOB are the trees between Meadows and Paradise, not under the cliffs.

[riokarma]

It was yummy!

No, SOB are the trees between Meadows and Paradise, not under the cliffs.

Nice. And you are correct. SOB won't get you there.

[Rasputin]

How did all those tracks get under the cliffs? Aren't they closed from the top? Poachers?

What Muddy, were the cliffs open the whole time you were at the bowl?

There is a traverse that curls around from the south end of the cliffs, as others have mentioned.

Man, it was another great day at The Bowl. The new snow was a welcome fluffy surprise.

I met Bryan the Bowled (sp?) on the lift today, and dragged him around to the lame lines I show tourists (heh, heh, not really).

[Rasputin]

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