2013/14 Inland PNW thread

[NW_SKIER]

[jables]

Gondi is 20 min and not a big deal. Have everything in a bag/pack before leaving the car. Easy. We got nuked by the sun today, unreal warm, pushing 50deg. North facing shaded aspects are skiing decent, everything else will be coral if it freezes tonight. Going to take every inch of the incoming storm to help. Tues on looks good. Big warm up again coming Thursday and friday.


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Yeah it was hot today. My son told some people it was colder in Atlanta than here (which it was when we left and arrived respectively)

Weather doesn't look fun tomorrow. Fingers crossed for decent weather rest of the week. Excited to check it all out no matter what though.

[2FUNKY]

Thanks for playing photog mang!


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[puma]

Thank you to all the Silver crew for showing me around and waiting during such a stellar storm cycle. Great meeting and skiing with you all. It was a memorable day! Back to reality for me with a 5 day work week staring at me. I like skiing and vacationing better...

[2FUNKY]

Thank you to all the Silver crew for showing me around and waiting during such a stellar storm cycle. Great meeting and skiing with you all. It was a memorable day! Back to reality for me with a 5 day work week staring at me. I like skiing and vacationing better...

You’re welcome and anytime man!


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[SkiLyft]

Great making turns with you Puma!! That was such a sick day!


Today at Schwiz with Kopi and an OG Mag.

Such a wild mixed bag:
- loads of face shots were had
- the snow had super nice body on the 2 upper triples. X/Y was $$$.
- it just got better on the upper hill as the day progressed; tons of wind transport.

The lower parts of the hill (anything below midway on Cedar) got sooooo fucked by the rain around noon. Easily encounter the WORST snow ive skied in 3 years. The 3-5” of new got water logged and formed VELCRO. We were skiing along and hit the line and about died; it was so bad it was funny!

Anyways great day skiing with a solid crew!

Kopi_red skiers left of Puccis


Protests and C132s made pretty easy work of the surfy/heavy snow.


Tomorrow might be okay if they get 3-5” of snow over this schmooooo. If they don’t and freeze that rain logged snow could be pretty heinous coral reef.

I’m guessing Silver will be the same; seeing snow on the stake… but that is a pretty high elevation. They certainly got rain on anything below that stake me thinks…

**edit snow stake is currently a rain stake**

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[2FUNKY]

Not rain, still snowing. Camera of the snow stake is wet but it’s not raining, even at the lodge. Think positive cold snowy thoughts!


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[SkiLyft]

Hahah, dude there is rain on the camera lens.. trust me. I want snow. But they got rain up pretty high on the hill today. It will flip to snow tonight. Let’s hope it heals the snow.



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[2FUNKY]

Ugh, that camera lens gets wet due to the light. It’s wet heavy snow but those are flakes looking at the top of 2 man.


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[GoldMember]

Tomorrow might be okay if they get 3-5” of snow over this schmooooo. If they don’t and freeze that rain logged snow could be pretty heinous coral reef.

Schweitzer NOAA is calling for 3-7 with a low of 16 and some wind. It's going to be pretty sucky down low. Hopefully the groomers will work out the main runs but off piste down low will be heinous. Time to think about some sun and spring conditions, at least for the time being. I'm going up Thur-Sun when there's forecasted sunshine.

[jono]

Snowtel reporting something like 10" @29% up there since yesterday. Wow.

[2FUNKY]

Snowtel reporting something like 10" @29% up there since yesterday. Wow.

Silver got nuked as well.



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[jono]

Silver got nuked as well.

I don't claim to be any good at guessing density at a glance, but that sure looks more fluffier than 29%. How do we puff this stuff up to the 3' it shoulda been??

[Chugachjed]

Whoever said Granite Peak was a slog was dead on. The skiing was good but for my first tour in a year it was a loooong one.

[tmokes]

Silver still pretty good after days of warm up cycles. Mt Spokane sucked yesterday.


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[jables]

Bluebird at Silver right now. North facing stuff, esp in the trees, skiing great. Finding some of the goods! Empty too in spite of it being spring break

[bourbonisgood]

Whoever said Granite Peak was a slog was dead on. The skiing was good but for my first tour in a year it was a loooong one.

That was me. Props to getting out there though! Hoping you used a sled? You’ll be shocked how easily accessible it is here in a couple weeks.

[SkiLyft]

Today was really nice; snow quality is primo!!

Mama is back on snow 4 weeks postpartum


Ice cream breaks


Girly had some nice breakthroughs today



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[tmokes]

I think I saw you…. So you just carry your backpack in front/ next to you? I have been using the chest harness and been carrying my baby on my chest.


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[jables]

Today was really nice; snow quality is primo!!

Mama is back on snow 4 weeks postpartum


Ice cream breaks


Girly had some nice breakthroughs today



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Awesome! I was playing in the snow with my 2yo when you guys were gearing up. It was my turn to hang with the baby while my groms and wife were out skiing.

Congrats to all!

[Chugachjed]

That was me. Props to getting out there though! Hoping you used a sled? You’ll be shocked how easily accessible it is here in a couple weeks.

Sled would have been sweet. We were all human powered. I am not in that kind of shape after sitting in a library getting fat for 6 months.

[MagnificentUnicorn]

Bluewood had nice snow today. It rained Sunday/Monday down low but snowed some more and the trees were soft up high and the groomers were very nice. First time there, the tree skiing on a powder day would be crazy good.


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[SkiLyft]

I think I saw you…. So you just carry your backpack in front/ next to you? I have been using the chest harness and been carrying my baby on my chest.


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Yeah, once they get bigger the chest harness is harder due to weight distribution.

When she is in the backpack I can swing them over to the side/wear it on front for the lifts.

Awesome! I was playing in the snow with my 2yo when you guys were gearing up. It was my turn to hang with the baby while my groms and wife were out skiing.

Congrats to all!

I almost said something, your ski journal hat was a tip to you being a mag! What a day out there, that snow was [emoji385]!


Hit up Toyota day at Spokane. Hilarious as they weren’t scanning tickets at lodge 1 so it turned into free ski day for everyone!



Mama found her gas pedal


Hard not to smile


Stunner of a day skiing corn



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[jables]

I almost said something, your ski journal hat was a tip to you being a mag! What a day out there, that snow was [emoji385]!

Oh yeah, Ski Journal hat buys some cred I guess. Hehe.

Snow was killer. Our first time here. Found some great snow all week on limited time between toddler duty and skiing with the kids. Silver impressed. Last day skiing tomorrow then back to the southeast.

[2FUNKY]

I’ll be up testing some Heritage Lab R99 Comp, aka jerry killers tomorrow. Hope there is some vis.


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