Tahoe Weather, Conditions, Stoke, and What's Up Thread...

[TahoeJ]

This season is off to an awesome start and is already better than all of January last year. So chill the fuck out. If you want to be all negative, go back to 11/12. This year is sick.

Felt like someone needed to quote this for emphasis.

[Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer]

Note that the Sierra Avalanche Center has begun posting daily advisories for the 2012-13 season (in addition to the Observations Page that has been updated for several weeks):

http://www.sierraavalanchecenter.org/

Read the report, make smart decisions and have fun/be safe this season.

[lepistoir]

I made some efforts to see why the Lets go Telemark movie isnt being showed in Tahoe Area. Got an email back from Mr. Josh Madsen.
He said "We had to cut down the touring schedule this year due to high gas prices -- and I just bought the company last year, so trying to keep stuff tight this year.

I'd love to have a show in Tahoe, if you are into putting one on? I've been donating the flick to people that are looking for something for local fundraising opportunities. Any ideas?"

So I turn to you. Any one have connections that I may be able to set this up with?
Thanks for the help in advance

Talk to Megan at SheJumps. She's on here too. h-atlas
http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/s...88#post3799988

[lepistoir]

Word up to all posting about BEACON PRACTICE, checking avy report, using caution and appreciating the awesome start to the season. I am so glad to have snow to ride on this Thanksgiving and want to see all y'all getting out and posting up stoke all season long.

[Ottime]

Note that the Sierra Avalanche Center has begun posting daily advisories for the 2012-13 season (in addition to the Observations Page that has been updated for several weeks):

http://www.sierraavalanchecenter.org/

Read the report, make smart decisions and have fun/be safe this season.

Thanks. I was looking last night and saw the non-daily. Glad she is up and running. Gonna miss this cycle completely, so at least I can read about it.

[powdork]

made the opening day at kirkwood today.
here we are hanging out at the top of five


and hitting the groomer on the down

[Driver]

Note that the Sierra Avalanche Center has begun posting daily advisories for the 2012-13 season (in addition to the Observations Page that has been updated for several weeks):

http://www.sierraavalanchecenter.org/

Read the report, make smart decisions and have fun/be safe this season.

THIS deserves to be emphasized! Cheers be safe

[Bosco]

Skied the Heav today. Skiing was meh, but I did enjoy the closed areas until I was pulled over by ski patrol and given a tongue lashing, which would have been OK if the SP were female...

Also went to the ski swap at MontBleu looking for gear for my bud. Waste of time and effort IMO.

[powdork]

they are serious at the heave. this guy was guarding the boundaries yesterday

[LongShortLong]

Had a great opening day! Good coverage on the WROD, and decent thin coverage off it, too. Employees I talked to seemed pretty positive about Vail. Also, it sounds like 6 will open as soon as there's enough snow for it. (or cold weather to make snow)

Now with more truthiness
Rolled into KW this morning a bit before 9, and chair 6 was spinning (!). Then I saw Coop riding up to shoot some video or somesuch. Us regular folk were not allowed on 6, only 5 for us. It was cold and miserable. Maybe Vail does suck. I see why people hate this place.

And the true -
6 was closed - nobody was riding it. (middle Zach is quite peppery)
Coop rode 5 with the rest of us.
Everybody, employees and customers, was psyched about opening day.
There was 4-6 inches of pow-like substance on top of a base everywhere the groomer hadn't been. Some had wafer-thin crust. It was fun.
Snowed lightly off and on all day, fairly wet snow.
The drain still has a creek in it. (I checked)
Only Racecourse has enough snow to handle much skier traffic.
This is way better than last year. A big dump and it will be like two years ago

I also watched a first-time beginner learn to ski. In the morning, he was super shaky. I wondered who the jerk was who talked him into riding up / skiing down Chair 5. By the afternoon, he was linking pizzas in the fall line - on tele skis (!). Very impressive. At that rate of learning, and some alpine bindings, I expect we see him in the chair 6 line up soon.

[TheOriginalGraniteChief]

fucking hippy!!! why do you make so many turns???

Because he can, why do you give a shit?
Nice vid fluid styley, great stoke!

[Steven S. Dallas]

Because he can, why do you give a shit?
Nice vid fluid styley, great stoke!

You should probably hang around some before you start posting.

[skier666]

Yep...first TR of the year including that yuppie gimpy.

http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/s...d.php?t=254030

[The Dad]

You should probably hang around some before you start posting.

Well, he's The Original Granite Chief, right? So he's presumably omniscient, or at least, he's been here.

Although, it seems that a plaintext environment in which people who know each other in real life interact can confuse even one such as he.

[TheOriginalGraniteChief]

You should probably hang around some before you start posting.

I've been around longer than you been on earth buddy. It's not like TGR is the center of the universe. Well maybe for you it is. But I was launching shit in tahoe when two skis barely made the width of one of Todays shapes, fucking gaper.

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[powdork]

^so you're old. here's a medal.

the point being made was that gimpy was making a funny and everyone here knew it except you.

[Steven S. Dallas]

I've been around longer than you been on earth buddy. It's not like TGR is the center of the universe. Well maybe for you it is. But I was launching shit in tahoe when two skis barely made the width of one of Todays shapes, fucking gaper.

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Good call, Joe Sbragia, you know all about me, including my age and gape level. Hey, is this 508 phone number you posted in the jobs forum a land line or a mobile?

[MrSmith]

the point being made was that gimpy was making a funny and everyone here knew it except you.

Everyone including me.

[Ottime]

Wait, what? Gimpy I a yuppie? Fuck. I knew it. I knew it all along.

Yay snow. Dumping here on the coast

[deciblast]

Good call, Joe Sbragia, you know all about me, including my age and gape level. Hey, is this 508 phone number you posted in the jobs forum a land line or a mobile?

nah brah I'm calling on my 1200 baud modem into the Teton Gravity BBS running CELERiTY circa 1992

[lepistoir]

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Old guy has learned to use a smartphone.

[PB]

I've been around longer than you been on earth buddy. It's not like TGR is the center of the universe. Well maybe for you it is. But I was launching shit in tahoe when two skis barely made the width of one of Todays shapes, fucking gaper.

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I'm as cranky and befuddled as most geezers, but ...... holy shit, colostomy bag man!

[TheOriginalGraniteChief]

Good call, Joe Sbragia, you know all about me, including my age and gape level. Hey, is this 508 phone number you posted in the jobs forum a land line or a mobile?

I'm often just trying to encite a riot out of lack of any snow to occupy my interest. Seems I did my job, the number posted is a mobile feel free to call it.
I also see people bashing here so much, I sometime feel the need to defend the other wise not guilty party, who, except for the attempt to transfer their stoke, did nothing wrong, and then they get run over by critical nay sayers. Thought that was one of those situations. I'm man enough to admit when I've been a DICKHEAD. Sorry I got in the middle of an inside joke. My bad. I am just as guilty as many here obviously in this case and in the future, I'm sure.
And yes, I'm old, grew up in the basin, learned to ski at Sierra ski ranch (SIERRA AT TAHOE) 43 years ago and picked all of the kirk clean like a dental assistant for years. So maybe I stuck my snoller blade in my Arse....... again, but hey that's me. Big mouth and enough experience to back it up........most of the time.

I'M JEALOUS NOT TO BE IN THE SIERRA'S
Stuck in the least coast.

Jong gone for now


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[AKbruin]

Current snow line is around 8000' near Rose. Rain below that. Should give the area the slathering it needs.

[old goat]

I'm often just trying to encite a riot out of lack of any snow to occupy my interest. Seems I did my job, the number posted is a mobile feel free to call it.
I also see people bashing here so much, I sometime feel the need to defend the other wise not guilty party, who, except for the attempt to transfer their stoke, did nothing wrong, and then they get run over by critical nay sayers. Thought that was one of those situations. I'm man enough to admit when I've been a DICKHEAD. Sorry I got in the middle of an inside joke. My bad. I am just as guilty as many here obviously in this case and in the future, I'm sure.
And yes, I'm old, grew up in the basin, learned to ski at Sierra ski ranch (SIERRA AT TAHOE) 43 years ago and picked all of the kirk clean like a dental assistant for years. So maybe I stuck my snoller blade in my Arse....... again, but hey that's me. Big mouth and enough experience to back it up........most of the time.

I'M JEALOUS NOT TO BE IN THE SIERRA'S
Stuck in the least coast.

Jong gone for now


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