WOOT WOOT! Nukin' in Missoula

[Rasputin]

IDATB!

[Rasputin]

Today did not suck. Tomorrow will have significant crust.

[S_jenks]

Weather has been less than inspiring lately, so hadn’t been up in a while.

Conditions up high were surprisingly great on rippable snow. But down low- eh, it was more like a few inches on frozen mashed potato leftovers.



Poked around the new chair. Neat stuff there with some actual base to explore on. Waiting for that big dump to really seal in the flavor.



People are going to get sendy on the new lift line when that dump does happen. So many spots that you could boost off in the right conditions.



Training.

[Rasputin]

People are going to get sendy on the new lift line when that dump does happen. So many spots that you could boost off in the right conditions.

I eagerly anticipate riding that lift on a big powder day, if only to see hucksters going big, and doing flippy spinny things. However, first we need three more feet of snow, because the East side of TV is currently poorly covered, even though the cut areas have a tamped down base.

For those thinking Snowbowl's back country is entirely stable (as I have heard from some folks recently), read this.

[yeahman]

If that pin is the exact location, I have seen that bowl slide before, the day after I declined to ski it but the guys I was with did ski it. It is very close to where we used to have our teepee.

[RootSkier]

If that pin is the exact location, I have seen that bowl slide before, the day after I declined to ski it but the guys I was with did ski it. It is very close to where we used to have our teepee.

The pin doesn't seem to make much sense with the "skiing low angle terrain above the bowl..." part. Maybe Jenny Bowl? Seems to have the right look.

[Terrapin Ben]

The pin doesn't seem to make much sense with the "skiing low angle terrain above the bowl..." part. Maybe Jenny Bowl? Seems to have the right look.

Looks like low angle terrain above the bowl based on the pin location. Def a strange spot to trigger a slide. Stay safe out there!

[yeahman]

Looks like low angle terrain above the bowl based on the pin location. Def a strange spot to trigger a slide. Stay safe out there!

Yes, I believe the pin is near the top of what we used to call Second Bowl (perhaps has been renamed). Susie Bowl is the one just south (never saw it slide). The teepee was on the ridge between the two bowls where you can see a little low angle spot, about four hundred feet down from Wisherd Ridge proper.

[jamal]

I mean, all the reports and observations do say there's still a reactive pwl on n/ne aspects and those bowls get pretty steep.

bowl was pretty decent this morning. went to the top, couldn't see shit, had some decent turns in east bowl and on angel face, took a couple of griz laps (lower griz was not good), then went over to snowpark for a bit and that was nice. Still haven't tried skiing down the front of tv mtn but did notice it's open and saw people on it from the chair last week.

[RootSkier]

Looks like low angle terrain above the bowl based on the pin location. Def a strange spot to trigger a slide. Stay safe out there!

Wow I'm a fucking moron.

[RootSkier]

It appears that the Transporter opened today.

[S_jenks]

For the love of God, they could've chose any name for the new lift. And they went with....... Transporter?!?

Just call it the TV mountain lift if you are that devoid of ideas.

[yeahman]

Set phasers to stun.

[senior researcher]

Full power!

[senior researcher]

2nd bowl always releases to some degree. More so in the shade.

[Rasputin]

Full power!

As I rode the new lift today, I thought it was rather slow, it probably wasn't at full power.

The lift line was thoroughly shralped of the new snow which fell this morning; in spite of mediocre coverage, eager billy goats launched, scraped and hippity-hopped down every line that I expected, and many I didn't.

[Iowagriz]

Lookers left of the new lift is a pretty fun run. Follow the ski boundary down towards the gravel pit, jeep road returns you to the base. I've named it Boundary Ridge. One narrow and steep pitch that is a pinch point and will get skied out, otherwise some fun possibilities.

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[Rasputin]

I'm sure it was the sheer magnitude of constructing a chairlift, on the low elevation, massively below tree line and devoid of snow TV Mountain that foiled them. Word amongst the employees is that the initial reason it didn't spin until 2023 was because of tax implications - opening in December 2022 wasn't as advantageous as January 2023. Rumor is also that they didn't have adequate staffing to operate it and finally that your boy Pat "adjusted" some of the hydraulic components to the extent that SkyTrac had to return after the fact to unfuck the situation.

So, that totally explains why the chairs were stacked in the parking lot on opening day.

[Rasputin]

https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOE...Mass&length=24

[RootSkier]

I'm sure it was the sheer magnitude of constructing a chairlift, on the low elevation, massively below tree line and devoid of snow TV Mountain that foiled them. Word amongst the employees is that the initial reason it didn't spin until 2023 was because of tax implications - opening in December 2022 wasn't as advantageous as January 2023. Rumor is also that they didn't have adequate staffing to operate it and finally that your boy Pat "adjusted" some of the hydraulic components to the extent that SkyTrac had to return after the fact to unfuck the situation.

I am surprised you are giving them this much credit for what seems like a complicated plan when the regular explanations would seem sufficient.

[Iowagriz]

Been gone from the Bowl for 10 days or so (trying to heal a rib). I see small snow amounts most days. How is it skiing? Looks like it should be snowing hard there right now (Sunday night).

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[Rasputin]

I am surprised you are giving them this much credit for what seems like a complicated plan when the regular explanations would seem sufficient.

Today I rode the lift for a couple laps with one of the Sky Trac workers, who are still finishing up some details. I asked him if the steepness of the lift line had anything to do with the difficulties that put them behind schedule, his response was a strongly affirmative "Oh yeah!", before telling me about the various delays and problems they encountered, while installing the steepest lift in the company's history. Apparently the process of just getting the chairs from the parking lot (where they were assembled), to the lift, was an unexpectedly time intensive hurdle.

He also recounted how the Sky Trac electricians had made a bypass that allowed the hydraulic rams to over extend, and get misaligned, which caused damage when it was started up. Pat, (who apparently is "my boy" because I don't lie to make him look bad) was not involved at all. The rams were shipped out on a flatbed from Ohio, and got delayed in attempting to traverse the severe winter storm that was hitting the mid-west at that time (it was stuck in Minnesota for a bit), but heck, a winter storm, and Snowbowl angling for tax breaks, are exactly the same, right?

Since I know how some folks around here love to complain about Pat, I will mention that I was right, that the Transporter is not running at full speed, it is load tested for an additional 50 feet per minute, but for some reason Pat does not want to run it faster than 400 ft/min (which the Sky Trac guy seemed a bit bothered by). This one is entirely on Pat.

[yeahman]

but for some reason Pat does not want to run it faster than 400 ft/min.

There you go putting down Pat again. [emoji28]

[Rasputin]

There is no reason to make up stories about Pat's screw-ups, they are never as funny as the true ones, of which there are many.

[Harry]

I know how some folks around here love to complain about Pat

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