Oregon ‘23-‘24 El Niño Schralpadelic Rumble Thread

[Tap]

Found a wee bit o soft yday

[interloper]

Heh, interloper didn’t believe me when I told him ski techs charge less to repair scratches that run parallel to the ski compared to perpendicular “chicken scratches”.

I wish ON3P made a full camber, no rocker, 72mm waist, 14m radius ski. Or other manufacturers started using ON3P’s base material. Not even sure what I hit to cause those dings. I hit shit with my wrens that sound like “oh fuck” and then can’t find the scratch

Well there it is. A ON3P carve ski. Say it ain't so.

[swimmy]

Found a wee bit o soft yday

Great pic.

[MagnificentUnicorn]

Heh, interloper didn’t believe me when I told him ski techs charge less to repair scratches that run parallel to the ski compared to perpendicular “chicken scratches”.

I wish ON3P made a full camber, no rocker, 72mm waist, 14m radius ski. Or other manufacturers started using ON3P’s base material. Not even sure what I hit to cause those dings. I hit shit with my wrens that sound like “oh fuck” and then can’t find the scratch

I think you’d get the same streaks on ON3Ps but you can’t see them as well. Black bases show superficial scratches really well.


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Great pic.

It’s a pic from my dreams

[TBS]

^^^ You dream of snowboarding?

It is a great shot J. Gotta wonder where you’re hiking to get that snow

I think you’d get the same streaks on ON3Ps but you can’t see them as well. Black bases show superficial scratches really well.
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I’ve found ON3P and Praxis bases to be rock hard. I’ve hit shit that sounds like a core shot but even after looking closely can barely find a scratch. Volume mfrs like Head, K2, etc seem to use much softer/thinner material. No idea what I hit in that photo - maybe frozen chicken heads or pine cones because I was studiously avoiding brown snow

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^^^ You dream of snowboarding?

i'm board-indifferent

[Tap]

Gotta wonder where you’re hiking to get that snow

Just went east of CC. Saw some poor suckers dropping to the 2nd catch...they haven't put cord on it yet so it's iced cat tread chunk...muy peligroso.

[Toadman]

Snow flurries in Bend. The snowstake cam looks fuzzy. Can't be snow, can it?

[interloper]

Eastside had fresh smooth newness. Intermittent snow showers. Winter is here.

[TBS]

Just went east of CC. Saw some poor suckers dropping to the 2nd catch...they haven't put cord on it yet so it's iced cat tread chunk...muy peligroso.

Well, nice find. And nice shot

Was talking to Patrol Director on chair ride last week. Said he did a recon run out there and there’s not enough snow to get a cat up the catchline. Said it was defensive/survival skiing between the getback and the catchline as well.

Tomorrow’s shaping up to be soft…

[k2skier112]

Saw this post in the Whistler thread

I'm cautiously optimistic

https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2024/...ashington.html

[boar2m]

^^^ well, then, a road trip coming up... Crystal to Baker to Whistler ... to Sun Peak to Revey??

[boar2m]

Meadows skied great today. I haven't had this much fun with 3" in a long time ;-)

[lowsparkco]

Took my daughter to the Nordic center today. Snow falling steady from 11 to 3 at Bachelor. Kinda crazy, but less than a mile from the Sunrise turn off it was sunny, no precip. Both on the way up and back down. Lucky we were right on the front boundary.

[Toadman]

Hopefully this storm cycle allows for OBX to open at some point during the weekend.

[Toadman]

What the heck is going on here?

[Backward_Banana]

Zigged when he should have zagged.

Skiied great today.

[TBS]

^^^ it was kinda breezy at times today, but a 40mph gust shouldn’t blow a sled over.
Calling that operator error. Nice catch.

It was a little damp this AM. Started the day with freezing fog, then the freezing part stopped about 1100.



New snow was nice though…

[boar2m]

Dang, you be hardcore TBS… I’ll ski in any condition except in rain. Speaking of new snow, Meadows snowstake has been sitting at 6 inches for about two days now. It saz it resets at 5 am but apparently not everyday… I’d say it’s a good tactic to get everybody excited to come up.

[lowsparkco]

Maybe I’m delusional, but it never seemed like rain. Really wet warm snow. Was pretty light and soft at 10, but by 12:30 not so much. Best day for me of 23-24 - but that’s not saying much.

[boar2m]

yeah, I get it. sorta like sitting at a bar and it's 2 am and you be getting desperate

[TBS]

It may not have felt like rain, but the moisture stopped freezing on me. Went from stopping every 800’ vertical to skigee the goggles, to about every 200’. That’s when we cashed out.

And I’m hardly complaining. Best day so far.

@boar, not hardcore at all, I only ski in the rain to get back to the car.

Big cold storm coming Friday night, thru the weekend and into next week!
Ullr be praised!

[puma]

It may not have felt like rain, but the moisture stopped freezing on me. Went from stopping every 800’ vertical to skigee the goggles, to about every 200’. That’s when we cashed out.

And I’m hardly complaining. Best day so far.

@boar, not hardcore at all, I only ski in the rain to get back to the car.

Big cold storm coming Friday night, thru the weekend and into next week!
Ullr be praised!

I guess you can feel good the wetness was good for the base. This weekend will be better for it! (and next week too...)

[lowsparkco]

yeah, I get it. sorta like sitting at a bar and it's 2 am and you be getting desperate

Reminds me of the vanity plate on my new neighbor’s car. It’s some kind of speciality plate that only has 4 letters, she chose PAWG. Can’t wait to meet her. I was kicking myself for not stopping and grabbing a photo.