10/11 Tahoe Weather, Conditions, Stoke, and What's Up Thread

[sierraskier]

Here's my contribution from the last couple days at Squaw:

sickter. the new age soft rock remix doesn't really suit the skiing style but looks fun...


I like this one:

FUCK.


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looks like I picked the wrong season to blow my achilles and start a new job.

[SkiNebraski]

I'm shitty at contributing stoke but this is a still from the go pro over the weekend at kirkwood.

Pretty rad, can't see my gloves.

[powdork]

Ottime - nice shots! Looks like it was super good yesterday. Did the guy in the blue jacket stomp his entrance? Looked pretty big. Stuck in the city for a couple days. might have to do another day trip.

pretty sure that's babyJ. here he is later in the day with a huge 3.

[splitter]

no mention of this yet?

fireplug avy (rgj)

SAC version

[Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer]

Wow - great stuff by everyone. Have been out of town for a week and a half and this is what I come back to? Nice.

Not skiing, but at least some scenics from the magical land of alpine goodness:

[Sinecure]

Wow, just Wow. Yesterday at Alpine was amazing. Got 4th chair on Summit, shredded the ridge to the face (face planted on the face in a really deep/soft/thick patch). Then headed to Scott after Alpine Bowl to Deer Camp for 25th-ish chair up Scott. Seldom was incredible. Snow was so much more ski-able than Monday due to settling/wind-loading. After Scott, headed back to Summit in hopes they'd open High-T. No such luck, but did get an amazing couple of runs to Sherwood from F-Tree. After a couple back there, back down Counterweight (amazing - I've never kept my skis pointed straight downhill that long in Counterweight). Met up with JLA415 at some point (can't remember when that was). We went back up Summit thinking we were headed to High Yellow, but at the Lower Saddle noticed that the stop signs leading to Sherwood had been turned so we wrapped around the first green one, traversed back under CB and down amazing untracked to Sherwood again. Art's Knob / Hidden Knolls back to the front. By then my legs and knees were burning so we took a quick lunch break. Knew they were trying to open Estelle and when we emerged from lunch they had just opened it. I lost JLA on the hike to Estelle (sorry about that buddy), but picked up a couple other friends who were headed to the Buttress. I'd never skied that before so figured I'd give it a try. Took a few pics of them hucking cliffs on the way down toward the parking lot. Then final run they wanted to do Idiot's. I've never skied Idiot's either because by the time I hike to it, it just seems to make more sense to go another 100 yards and hit high Beaver. But this time hit Idiot's just so that now when people ask me on the chair if I've skied "that thing", I can say yes (I still think High Beav is always a better choice). Looked for the snow stake as we traversed into low beaver, but couldn't find it (I know its still there and not quite buried yet, just missed it). By the time I got down it was 2:45 and I just didn't have any more in the tank. Had an easy drive home, stopped for sushi with a friend in Walnut Creek and slept like the dead last night. Phew. Can't wait to do it again this weekend. Just found out that a client is going to fly me up/back this weekend (pending weather). Much nicer than driving.

Fourth Chair. By coincidence, the first chair was chair number 1.



JLA415 by the Lower 40 sign. This sign is about 25' up that tree. Earlier in the season you don't even notice it because its up so high.



Non-mag friends Alex and Corey doing some hucking below the Buttress:





Buttress at end of day. When we hit it, there were only a couple tracks.

[Dhelihiker]

turns out the walls on the exit air were unsoft too

OMG did he rag doll from the first landing or should I say non-landing?

I can totally do that

[powdork]

no, he recovered. then on his exit air his board hit the walls.

[Ottime]

Ottime - nice shots! Looks like it was super good yesterday. Did the guy in the blue jacket stomp his entrance? Looked pretty big. Stuck in the city for a couple days. might have to do another day trip.

He stomped it. I did not see the landing due to the angle of my shot. MP, FranklezZ or Driver could comment on the stompage.

BTW, he is not really windmilling his arms; he jumped and threw them out to get his weight forward. Regardless, it was huge.

On my run in, I dropped from high left. I think I re-lauched off his bomb hole on the run out, essentially making once a double...

[kidwoo]

This is getting a little retarded.

[simple]

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Yeah my buddy picked a good weekend for a bachelor party in South Lake.

Should I bring my backcountry gear? Riding 2 days at Heavenly. Wish it was Kirkwood but I'll take what I can get and shred the shit out of it.

[gimpy]

^^^^ hell yes u should bring your gear. contrary to what u read from all the stop and take pictures at every little rock drop folks on here that ski kwood and like to bag on it, heavenry is the best resort around when there is lower elevation snow. there i said it. if u r confined to the trailmap, its mehhh, but if u poke around and u have your gear u will not be disappointed.

be careful out in the bc. we've had 2 close calls in 2 days skiing where we prolly ought not to have been. i took a ride yesterday when a 12-18" crown popped a hundred feet above me and dropped me. i was able to get my skiis beneath me past the choke and skied out of it. today we were on the same peak on a more conservative line and my buddy started a slide but he was able to mach out of it before he ate shit. i think i'll be riding lifts for a bit.

[TheAfterBangBus]

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Yeah my buddy picked a good weekend for a bachelor party in South Lake.

Should I bring my backcountry gear? Riding 2 days at Heavenly. Wish it was Kirkwood but I'll take what I can get and shred the shit out of it.

Shred the shit out of it buddy! Do it for your moms and your buddies future wife!

Bring your avalung so you don't get all narsided in the unfathomable deepness of not so fresh cooter.

[powfiend]

Anyone have beta on the lines from rose and heave down to carson area? I am completely clueless on the east side of the lt zone and have been hearing way to many good things recently about these zones. Any info about route finding/where to leave cars for shuttle. Also if anyone wants a solid partner to hit these spots pm me please.

[simple]

Word. I'll bring the bc gear then for sure. If I get caught in a tree well I'll so pissed!.....and dead.....

Snowboarder with a green jacket, tan pants, grey helmet, and a big ol' shit eating grin. Holla if you see me.

[gimpy]

^^^ davis creek is the rose eastside shot and u dont need to buy a ticket to access it w/ a lil hiking but i dont know how much snow is at the bottom of that one. the heavenry shots do require a ticket/pass/poach and all the lines are $$$ right now. however, i do not know the condition of the exit rd right now but i plan on finding out 1sthand the next couple days.

[Spats]

Monday was ridiculous.

I'm sure I looked like one of those Bugs Bunny cartoons where all you can see is a hill of dirt tunneling around. There wasn't much turning involved, mostly straightlining and hoping I didn't get stuck. I stopped to help a boarder who fell into a tree well off a traverse and couldn't get out. He was up to his neck.

Big thanks to the person that gave me a jump at the end of the day because my battery was dead.

No thanks to the boarders that were stuck in deep snow at least 100 yards from anywhere and would have been there until patrol came or maybe stuck out all night -- and who waited 15 minutes for me to thrash all the way out of the flats through waist-deep snow, instead of taking my track down to the flats and helping punch it out farther.

[SchralphMacchio]

^ Rookies!!! Thanks to your sage advice out there I studied the benches and managed my fall line. Also my single pole goes a long way. You should see the ridiculous 5" wide powder basket I am rocking these days ... I have skier envy, I swear.

Can't believe they didn't offer you a nug or three for your help. Not that you would have used it, but hey you coulda used that to barter a discount on the steiger at the shop or something

[Gerome]

Maybe it's because I was well rested after I spent Sunday recovering from a hangover, or could it have been an overdose or adverse interaction of all the hip-hop and trance on the way to the mountain. Maybe I couldn't actually see the landings so I couldn't actually tell how big things were. Whatever it was, I experienced a lot of falling on the fingers at Squaw on Monday. I think I fall pretty well though. For your viewing pleasure:

Five Finger Discount - an overexposed and underlit POV of the finger lines at KT22

[213]

4k of backcountry bliss this morning...remote triggered windslabs kept things exciting!

[s.p.c]

watched mildbill casually launch big jim's on tuesday. impressive to say the least. rumor has it there is video floating around.

[Piggity]

There is so much stoke in this thread from the last 48hrs that I think I got a mini chub from the pics and vids.

I am jealous of epic proportions, past 4 weeks have been rough watching everyone else score but me. Keep the stoke coming so I can drool on my keyboard some more!

[ShawnB]

watched mildbill casually launch big jim's on tuesday. impressive to say the least. rumor has it there is video floating around.

Yeeeeeehaww!
Go Bill!

[Ottime]

I was thinking Jim's was prime on Tuesday. For someone other than me. Wish I had seen that go down, especially the casual style.

watched mildbill casually launch big jim's on tuesday. impressive to say the least. rumor has it there is video floating around.

[skier666]

Anybody on this message board ski at Kirkwood? I am taking my family there this weekend for a family ski vacation. Are the conditions good? I can't imagine that their snow report is accurate. I mean, there's no way California has more snow than Vail. Do the highways require chains if I'm a good driver? Also, any recs for best all-mountain ski that includes a binding system?