Oregon ‘23-‘24 El Niño Schralpadelic Rumble Thread

[Toadman]

Damn tourons. No respect for the signage!

With the shift to more daylight in the evenings, we have seen extensive disregard of our Uphill Policy, putting our guests and employees at increased risk. As a reminder, the Cone is the only uphill route open after 4pm- do not leave the designated route, as winch cats are operating in other areas of the mountain.

[k2skier112]

This news dropped when I was across the Pond
Awesome!


https://www.skihood.com/blog/Mt.-Hoo...the-Ski-Season
This extended season means that the previously anticipated closing date is pushed back, with operations continuing seven days a week until April 28th, followed by two consecutive weekends of Friday-to-Sunday operations—May 3rd to 5th, May 10th to 12th, and, finally, Friday and Saturday operations on May 17th and 18th.

[TBS]

Damn tourons. No respect for the signage!

There’s little Powdr can do to enforce.
Impractical to ban them.
What else can they do?

[interloper]

There’s little Powdr can do to enforce.
Impractical to ban them.
What else can they do?

Powdr has bigger fish to fry. Like keeping the lifts spinning, not letting the Ketchup supply to diminish during business hours.

[SchralphMacchio]

Almost just spit my drink out there [emoji23]

[Toadman]

It looked better than it skied. A wee bit of firm crust under neath that angry inch of fresh snow.

[TBS]

Sounds like Saturday - an angry inch on top of a giant ice cube
Weather was schizophrenic- beautiful then foggy then spitting ice, then clearing, then spitting ice


Crowds weren’t bad at all, esp for first day of spring break

[Toadman]

^^^ Yep, pretty much carbon copy for Sunday.

[interloper]

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sleeper day at MHM

[Hood26]

sleeper day at MHM

Nice.

Started out wet, heavy, and grabby at Skibowl, but then about 1 o’clock it cooled off and put a little better snow down.

[boar2m]

sleeper day at MHM

Yep, you gotta luv Cascade pow-dough … so much fun when it’s fresh track. I had a blast the past couple days… pretty much untracked runs until 12:30 today, until my gloves soaked through... gotta try that silicon wax!

[thefortrees]

Yup amazing turns this week in all the normal haunts. Spring resets and no crowds make me happy

[TBS]

Today was good at Mt Brokenchair. Lots of fresh from last couple of days
Although they lost power on OBX & NWX…
East side had best viz, even though the light was flatter than Twiggy


Stockli stormriders FTW today

[romeo tango]

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East side had best viz, even though the light ..

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delete that please ....

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[Hood26]

It’s springy today. Hope you all are getting some today or this weekend.

[interloper]

Good snow conditions on the hill. With a few jokers & clowns about.
Rolled into the R0k bar for birthday beers. Free pizza b00m.

[Hood26]

It’s a glorious Holy Saturday. Happy Easter. Hope you and yours are well!

[allmountainsnowskating]

I had my "advanced physics" ski lesson at Timberline, and it was great. $350 for 3 hours, and they go into the summer.

Seems like the rabbit hole of Newtonian Mechanics isn't really all that deep once you grasp the basic definitions and theories. Then it's just forever doing a lot of drills to optimize your timing and flow. We spent an hour working on that.

For the remainder of the lesson, we got into some crackpot physics, and I thought I might share with the group.

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[allmountainsnowskating]

The second hour of the lesson was Einstein's Relativity Theory.

We talked about inertial reference frames and how they change and how we anticipate and transition between them. Kind of like, "think three turns ahead" but way more spunion.

Going off jumps, the expert skier is skiing the inertial reference frames of takeoff, airtime, landing, and runout at the same time in a clean continuous motion.

Spacetime is not linear, so she needs to mentally believe that she exists in all these inertial reference frames at the same time together, and their dynamic physics are all optimized. Her mind is connected to her nerves and her joints, so it works out.

Much more of a mental space lesson, and to visualize every inertial reference frame you'll have on your run, that they are all perfectly optimized. Then you take your run. Moguls is each bump, racing is each gate... that can clean up your skiing because your anticipation and transitions will be better.

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[allmountainsnowskating]

The other interesting thing was this concept of "hyperfluidity". He kind of stalks Mikaela Shiffrin because he has a conspiracy theory that she wins all her races because she knows something the other ski racers don't know: that with absolutely ridiculously perfect precision, you can make the water molecules in the snow reach a triple point under your edge so the turn is frictionless. His evidence is that the new microphones they just started setting up on World Cup courses capture that the sound of her turns is different.

We spent an hour working on Shriffrin turns on the magic mile, and shit, I even thought I felt one. Whether she is actually skiing at the triple point, idk, but it was still the smooooooothest turn I've ever felt.

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[allmountainsnowskating]

And yes, the Shriffrin turns gave me whole new perspective on pressure control, and so they were absolutely worth the lesson.

Skiing bumps transdimensionally was pretty dang fun too.

But I think I'll need to do more investigation to vibe check these triple point shriffrin turns. I haven't been able to stop thinking about them and will be chasing the dragon on that really nice turn for the rest of my life, probably.



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[skinipenem]

What strain of psilocybin mushrooms were involved in said lesson?

Great TR [emoji106]

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[allmountainsnowskating]

Skiing at the Triple Point is definitely a thing

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[skinipenem]

Skiing at the Triple Point is definitely a thing

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I don't doubt it. I frankly, have enjoyed your posts.

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