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

[Marhankins]

I got a little film in the can from last Wednesday's mini-pow day.
Hope it's worth a look to the collective:
- ShawnB (TronShawn)

That was worth a look for sure! Way to get after it.

[~mikey b]

as stated before, I am looking for a couple Squalpine vouchers for Far West jr ski racing event March 28-31 - sounds like Sinecure can provide 1 or 2

also

We have a house in TD that we are looking to fill for that weekend. Thu, Fri, Sat nights. 3 bedroom, 2 bath + loft and couch space. $180/night. Plan was to split with 3 families, but nobody has made a commitment yet.

[gimpy]

i have a bunch of 2 for 1 vouchers for squawlpine from the further show. dont know when they are good for but you are welcome to em mike if u cant get free comps.

anyone have any buddy passes left on their heavenlt/kwood pass they would be willing to hook up some houseguests we have tomorrow/sat. i bought my pass too late to getem as i understand it.

good corn on anything w/ a lotta south today. most of the pow mankified yesterday so i would suggest sunny south this weekend till this ridge hopefully breaks down

[powdork]

Zippy's back!! That's the universe's way of saying it might consider getting serious about this season after all..

I got a little film in the can from last Wednesday's mini-pow day.
Hope it's worth a look to the collective:

follow cam is hard, huh? its amazing how close you actually have to get. when you're 30' behind they're almost out of sight, so you have to ski where you can't see. especially when they're fast. and what the hell is with the 4:21? you could trim one second off the black screen at the end?

[shakyknees]

The east face of RLP was tasty ~1pm. SE aspects were overripe below 8500. Guessing the breeze may slow things down a bit tomorrow.

[TahoeJ]

Hope that this edit keeps the stokementum up and that mags aren't afraid to share their footage -- we need it; throw it up there!

Nice video. I'll start to post some stuff by the end of this season but the average quality of what gets posted in this thread can be a bit intimidating.

[ShawnB]

follow cam is hard, huh? its amazing how close you actually have to get. when you're 30' behind they're almost out of sight, so you have to ski where you can't see. especially when they're fast. and what the hell is with the 4:21? you could trim one second off the black screen at the end?

It's like 420, but one higher.
Who can argue with that concept?

And yeah, absolutely; follow-cam involves skiing literally right up onto the back of your buddy's skis, for these lenses to make it look right. Everything else ends up on the cutting room floor. It's bizarre.


Also, I found that edit got down-res'd by Vimeo somehow, only noticeable upon posting. So I worked over the settings and this:


...will now look a whole lot crisper. If not; double fail and shame on...shame... uh..can't git fooled again..

[shakyknees]

Loved the vid ShawnB, shadowcam rocks, followcam has its moments . . .

follow cam is hard, huh? its amazing how close you actually have to get. when you're 30' behind they're almost out of sight, so you have to ski where you can't see. especially when they're fast.

Indeed high quality follow cam may requires powers above and beyond those of an ordinary human; I thought this effort was worthy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLjQJ...ature=youtu.be

[powdork]

^^seems a lot of that was done with a pole cam, which may or may not be cheating. hmmm

[buildakicker]

Looooooking great out there. That cold weather really made it work.

[shakyknees]

^^seems a lot of that was done with a pole cam, which may or may not be cheating. hmmm

I hadn't thought of that; I was picturing a goPro mounted on a dog somehow . . .

[El Chupacabra]

Forecast is for 60* at 5800' on the east side of the Sierra, rain likely tonight/tomorrow. Took the snow tires off the 4Runner last night. Putting the snowblower away today.

Go on, "winter," do your worst. I challenge you to dump.

[TahoeBC]

That is definitly a pole cam, that's AC filming while snowboarding and frorider doing the tele sking.

[buildakicker]

Forecast is for 60* at 5800' on the east side of the Sierra, rain likely tonight/tomorrow. Took the snow tires off the 4Runner last night. Putting the snowblower away today.

Go on, "winter," do your worst. I challenge you to dump.

I never even got my snow-blower fired up... Hopefully the tires work.

[powdork]

That is definitly a pole cam, that's AC filming while snowboarding and frorider doing the tele sking.

i thought the outfit looked familiar.

[Driver]

Go away overcast skies! Give me that corn cycle.

out with the wife today, but Probably will break off to go on a little hike out around Corrie Lochan / Fourth of July if anyone is around kwood and wants to join.

[TahoeBC]

i thought the outfit looked familiar.

Yea you people in club skittle are hard to miss ;-) BTW check the paper today.

[splat]

Forecast is for 60* at 5800' on the east side of the Sierra, rain likely tonight/tomorrow. Took the snow tires off the 4Runner last night. Putting the snowblower away today.

Go on, "winter," do your worst. I challenge you to dump.

I was just reading that February matched the driest Feb on record. However, in March '95, Reno got 19.5 inches of precip. I am also reminded of 94 or so when Reno sold all but one snowplow because someone decided it didn't snow in Reno anymore.
I always hold out for Miracle March to come through...

[jables]

We've got to call our winter at the end of March, so if March doesn't deliver April will without question.

[LightRanger]

I was just reading that February matched the driest Feb on record. However, in March '95, Reno got 19.5 inches of precip. I am also reminded of 94 or so when Reno sold all but one snowplow because someone decided it didn't snow in Reno anymore.
I always hold out for Miracle March to come through...

Driest Jan-Feb combo on record, per the NWS, beating 1991. But then March '91 was the infamous "March Miracle" that partially broke the drought. Doing the snow dance.

[Ottime]

Not too worried. It is going to dump. At some point. Some where.

[rod9301]

East face of Jakes skied well today, but the trees at the bottom were a bitch.

[jahroy]

the last couple days have been almost perfect if you like KT corn.

not too sure what the next couple will be like...

only one way to find out.

remember we barely got any snow before march in 2006, too.

[frorider]

I hadn't thought of that; I was picturing a goPro mounted on a dog somehow . . .

Yeah no. If it were our old dog, I'd be a speck.

AC was using a short pole and a Flip camera this time around. On the tails of my skis pretty much.

On a real shoot he uses the big cameras and does actual post-production.

http://firsttracksproductions.com/

[frorider]

Washed and waxed the truck today. Doing my part to bring the snow.