Hola Lady La Niña Oregon Winter 2024-2025

[interloper]

^^^ Where is that? It looks vaguely familiar, but I just can't quite place it.

Did some early morning laps and definitely a crust under the few inches of new fallen snow.

Just above Sky. Good turns in the new snow with a firm base. Been 2 wks off so the legs weren't liking in the pm. Back @ it Tuesday.

[puma]

Anybody here get an opportunity to get a leg work out from Cloud in? I also have heard this workout was accompanied by a free hot chocolate\Coffee. Nice of them.

[TBS]

^^^That was one part of today’s Epic Cavalcade of Clusterfuck I missed.
It appeared that either the holiday gaper crowd didn’t depart after New Years or a new batch showed up. Median skill level was no better than the last two weeks.

Got to see someone in the chair before us fail to load. Chair didn’t stop, the disgorged chair rider didn’t pay attention & turned his back to the line of travel, and our chair hit him and knocked him down. We were yelling at him to watch out but he seemed oblivious.

Two runs later, while I was gliding (slowly) into the singles line of the CCX maze, some lady in the adjacent line decided to turn her skis perpendicular to the direction of travel just as I got there, so back half of her skis were now in my lane. With nowhere to go, I skied over them, clipped her rear binding and knocked her over. I stayed upright but barely. So now I need a base weld, and the lifty gave me shit for taking her out.

So I decided Sky might be a better option. Got there just as it shit the bed. After a 15 minute wait while they got the diesel running I decided to head to PMX. Got there just as it shit the bed, along with Little Pine, so now no way to get back to the vehicle.

So I went to the bar.

At least I got a hug from McKinley, my gorgeous patroller buddy.

[interloper]

^^^^^That's not what I heard & you're not from here.

[puma]

^^^^^That's not what I heard & you're not from here.

Do tell! At least there were no lift maze rope destruction at a yet to be opened lift due to excessive speed into the maze...

[interloper]

Due tell! At least there were no lift maze rope destruction at a yet to be opened lift due to excessive speed into the maze...

Without video it's hear say.

[TBS]

^^^An uncoerced confession counts though

^^^^^That's not what I heard & you're not from here.

Your opinion has little credibility. You were lapping Little Pine at the time

[interloper]

^^^An uncoerced confession counts though



Your opinion has little credibility. You were lapping Little Pine at the time

Better than being stuck CC or PMX.

[RustyGroomer]

I first went to Bachelor about 30 yrs ago. Stayed @ “The Inn of the Seventh Mountain” or something like that? I absolutely loved it. Before all the newer lifts were put in, etc.. We just lapped the Outback & were lucky enough to get in a couple summit days as well.
Anyway, when I left, I swore I’d be back. Hope to see some of you late March! A couple of us are coming from the beautiful flanks of Magic Mountain VT. We’re very used to broken lifts.
If you see Magic stickers, say hello. I’ll check in as we get closer.

[Toadman]

The mountain looking good this time of year.

[beer30]

I got out of my vehicle to help some people at that spot one time, it was like a bowling lane of cars coming at me on the ice sheet

[TBS]

The mountain looking good this time of year.

Nice - it was overcast and the top socked in at 0730. Somebody in our crew took a similar photo about 0815.

I thought today was generally a win. Most chairs ran without prolonged stops, CCX ran more often than not, the gaper quotient was much lower than yesterday and the snow was nicer than expected. Still not brave enough to risk sitting on The Roulette Wheel for an hour or hiking out though…

@Rusty - yup it is Inn of the Seventh Mountain. Lived there one ski season while my house was being built.

Let us know when you come to Mt Brokenchair. Spring corn harvest off the top should be good this year.

[interloper]

Rusty>bring local ski hill stickers. Very valuable here.

[k2skier112]

I went old school yesterday. Not as fun as I remember. Volkl Kendo for the last half day was funner


Falling ice chunks made safety meeting dangerous


Gorgeous day

Anyone ever hear of lift managers slowing the lift, and stop loading to do ramp work for 5-7 minutes in the middle of the day?! I have never seen this before. Now MHM is doing this on MHX. Must be partly because of chair spacing. 96 carriers and they're closer together than any other HSD lift there. MHM went for 3,600pph. Most other 6 packs range from 3,000-3,200 pph

[RustyGroomer]

Rusty>bring local ski hill stickers. Very valuable here.

That sounded stupid. Not bringing stickers. We just have them on
our skis /helmets & such. Say hello if you see us!

Thanks TBS!

*Edit to add we'll be staying in Bend. Arrive 3/27. Ladies will be with us, they will ski a bit. Spa a bit, etc. Any recs for just about anything greatly appreciated. Food, mostly, not big drinkers. Is Smith Rock worth a hike if we take a day off from skiing? Certainly not climbers but love a good hike.

[k2skier112]

MHX broke. Patrol said it may run in reverse

[k2skier112]

[Toadman]

Skin up, ride the chair down.

[river59]

That sux k2. How permanent is the breakdown? Was planning a trip up tomorrow...

[::: :::]

oof, that's no bueno

[TBS]

Looks like the whole lift fell over!
Vibes to the MHM crew. We at Mt Brokenchair can relate.

Speaking of, we had another day of nothing breaking! Gorgeous spring like conditions, except it didn’t corn up much. And Summit opened after three days of digging out.

Nice controlled slide on the West Ridge from Wednesday afternoon.


Nice also to get sun dogs


A vehicular mishap on Century in the afternoon.


No idea if other vehicles were involved. As most of us know, that corner is in the shade and wicked slick. Held me up for about 20 minutes at about 2pm. Would have been a longer wait but bunches of people got impatient & decided to turn around and go thru Sunriver.

ETA - heard today that, in addition to the Vail reps who got stranded on PMX Tuesday, others got stranded at NWX and got to participate in this week’s reenactment of Napoleon's Retreat From Moscow along with MtB’s Ops Manager. Bet that was awkward! At least they only had to hike to OBX…

[k2skier112]

They were clearing snow off the chair parking terminal and it slide off and slammed into a chair going in the bottom terminal. Smashed the safety bar and did some damage inside. By the time I talked to maintenance then got over to Buttercup they had it running on slow to offload.
I'd check the website in the morning for updates. Stadium started up too
I'll post a YouTube video
MHX reopened at 3:26

[k2skier112]

I was surprised to see one 1 patrol on belay. Maybe it was because we were so close to the ground

[kinkilla]

Double Tele patrollers, nice!

[puma]

ETA - heard today that, in addition to the Vail reps who got stranded on PMX Tuesday, others got stranded at NWX and got to participate in this week’s reenactment of Napoleon's Retreat From Moscow along with MtB’s Ops Manager. Bet that was awkward! At least they only had to hike to OBX…

Is it evil of me to take pleasure in this? That is funny.