Cascadia/WA Pow Farming ‘23/‘24

[kamtron]

You don't usually ski out of Heather Meadows, do you, kamtron?

Yeah I do! Didn't buy a pass this year. Hit me up if you want to get out

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[MagnificentUnicorn]

You ditched me. But that’s okay. It really wasn’t much of a frenzy though. Nobody was skiing under chair three. Legit face shots.

What’s that saying?


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[MagnificentUnicorn]

Acceptable


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[waveshello]

^ That looks great MU. Coverage looks surprisingly good!

It was a good day to have a good day at White pass. Wind loading made for some deep turns on leeward slopes. Upper roller was groomed all the way up and covered with a little bit of redistributed powder. Super fun--fast and smooth. I don't make it down there often but it's always a good time.

[ptavv]

skinned to Muir today

slow going with deep snow in the trees until pan face, wind scour from pan face to mcclure rock, then the variable wind drifting all the way to Muir

winds were constant but nbd to pan face, fierce on pan face to like 8k, then just… shut off. seriously like, no wind above 8k

the whole day there was a well demarcated cloud line coming from the south that. would peter out variably directly above Rainier's S flank or occasionally make it all the way to the summit

descending was fine until about 500 feet above pan point when it was like sustained 60 mph east winds blowing so much snow is was nearly a whiteout. came across another pair of skiers who weren't sure how to get down or where pan point was from where we were. someone had told my partner on the way up that pan face had slide on skier's right (turned out to be true, though small) so didn't want to go around pebble creek way

skied the face in a goat rodeo one-at-a-time with eyes on thing with people I'd never met and couldn't communicate with (due to the nuking wind), which is always a good bit of excitement

then skied fast refrozen sun-corn below pan face, which was really the best snow of the day, laughably

[eSock]

How's Crystal's base lodge looking these days? Are they gonna be up and running for next season?

[wickstad]

Still good at Mission.

[XavierD]

How's Crystal's base lodge looking these days? Are they gonna be up and running for next season?

Depends on when they figure out how undersized it is and begin the expansion. But yeah, looks like they are just doing internal stuff right now.

[Dromond]

Did anyone ski xtal today? It sounds like a warmup has occurred.

[wickstad]

Still skiing powder at Mission. Snowing today.

[BaseFloopy]

Crustal has been xtra krusty lately.
That being said, this morning's snow squall made for some really smooth turns.

[Huskier]

Crustal has been xtra krusty lately.
That being said, this morning's snow squall made for some really smooth turns.

Indeed. I went searching for a lost ski, got stopped by a rope set for inadequate coverage in a zone that had 3 ft a month ago.

[Jvhowube]

Guys I took off my snow tires and left town for two weeks. Seems my sacrifices to Ullr are panning out. Crossing my fingers for you maggots this weekend.

[Huskier]

Guys I took off my snow tires and left town for two weeks. Seems my sacrifices to Ullr are panning out. Crossing my fingers for you maggots this weekend.

Thank you for your service

[S_jenks]

Supposed to be visiting up in Whatcom this weekend with the wife. Currently trying to convince her on the merits of calling in sick Monday, or to tell her workplace that its "too scary to drive down the puget".

I hunger and I yearn.

[waveshello]

I'm definitely going to be sick next week, somehow I can just tell. Unfortunately I might be actually sick as well--the kiddos are coughing and sneezing today!

[eSock]

Is that actual...snow in the forecast!?

Should be an interesting next week. I may be sick a bunch.

[riff]

I got up high for some sun and a night out- got me stoked for the excellent spring skiing we will have in the high country this season…but I’m looking forward to the refresh that’s coming too!


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[wickstad]

I got up high for some sun and a night out- got me stoked for the excellent spring skiing we will have in the high country this season…but I’m looking forward to the refresh that’s coming too!


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Going to be a nice spring and summer like the olden days.

[Power_Sauce]

Fun in the shade and sun today at Snoqualmie - definitely some terrible snow too but overall pretty surprised by the conditions.


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[bfree]

Couple of classics there, very nice. Riff's tracks on lil'AP are worthy of a higher resolution photo.

Inbounds at Alpental was pretty good today, just not quite soft enough to be a 5* spring day.

[greenmachine]

Xtal was a solid 2 flake day yesterday . Groomers were good , oft piste variable and shallow . Hour glass off the king was good . They still piss me off most days


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[Huskier]

Xtal was a solid 2 flake day yesterday . Groomers were good , oft piste variable and shallow . Hour glass off the king was good . They still piss me off most days


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Up to 4/5 flakes today. The bottom is real, a few coverage closures, but the open stuff is skiing nicely. Average to slightly above average density.

[Bandit Man]

Some soft, deep snow today at Vail PNW. Good viz and lots of face shots to be had. Going to be one heck of a week.

[eSock]

That was probably the best day I've had at stevens.

Some sun in the morning to show off the goods, then back to stormy free refills most of the day till the sun poked back out in the afternoon to reveal what we'd been skiing all day.

So much fun on the back side lapping southern cross, we skipped lunch and rode til everyone's legs tapped out.

Lifts were running smooth and lift lines weren't too bad. Southern cross was only loading 2 per chair so that bottlenecked things a little but only for a while in the morning, once lunchtime hit it was pretty much ride on lifts the rest of the day.