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North Couloir of Crestone looks fat now, anyone who wants it should get on it soon. It's about the 5th or 6th photo in this TR (didn't feel like stealing their photo)

good stuff!

no freeze for a few nights here at 9500'. Rain and thunder right now. Yuck. Bring the cold back.

Hell yeah, Mike! Gothic opened today so it's time for some big line hunting. Problem is that it got hot and it isn't freezing at night. Looks better in a couple of days.

Super Couloir to...

The West face of Owen:

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Awesome, congrats, glad everyone was OK when the slide hit.

Is it just me, or were you using camp aluminum crampons? I love mine, but I wouldn't think they'd fare too well on the ice of that...

not powder, too much work this week, but here's the ladies on the West face of Gothic:
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while the boys hit the East...

Great TR all around, thanks for posting

Unfortunately it's out of print and stupid expensive. If anyone has a copy they'd be willing to part with, shoot me a PM.

To the OP, have fun, it's a cool area.

See, to me you've just proved the point. If you come here 5 times a year, and ski both days in a weekend, that's 10 days. So it would make sense for you to buy a pass next year at $599, whereas...

I had a flight held just for me once. I was flying spokane-sfo-paris. Flight out of spokane was delayed, and when we got to sfo, it was pretty much time for the paris flight to take off. United...

It's going to bring a lot more locals back in. Plenty of CB locals were just saying fuck it, and going all backcountry, or just getting a ticket or two through friends. CB lost a HUGE chunk of the...

ah, gotcha. I thought you were saying it didn't matter that the pass got cheaper.

^^^ Why is this no longer relevant?

Good old Ruby chute

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Holy crap! CBMR actually grew a brain!? Season pass price for next year dropped from $1100 or so to $599! LINK

Skied the Hall of Fame off the peak last weekend. So fun, forgot how steep it is up there....

Thanks for the advice on the trailer deck, TacocaT and Mannix

A bunch of pow shots from last week, you can see more HERE.

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Been wanting to ski this since pretty much the day I moved here. i wonder how many consecutive posts I can have in this thread.

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Irwin is now at 420" for the year. Well below average, but not a horrible year by any means.

I know this doesn't belong here, but I don't know where else to put it, in case anyone is looking...

The video might have a few too many jump turns and pauses for some of you, but it's a beauty of a line. Few more photos on my website.

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The stickied Snowy Torrents thread is mostly first hand accounts of maggots in slides: http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/showthread.php/78225-Snowy-Torrents-of-TGR

I'm with you. I enjoy challenging myself while skiing so I guess there is risk that comes with my enjoyment- but the risk associated with avalanches is not an aspect that I enjoy whatsoever.

One...

More from the pencil.

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Cool tour!

I wonder if the official statement also stated the color of the clothes the victim was wearing. And if so, why didn't the reporter note that the victim was "wearing a blue coat". Horrible...

Sometimes, some places, some years...

Thanks for posting!

Groundhog day on the pow turns.
April 14

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Let's talk trailer decks...

Mine is getting all torn up. Anyone have a line on a product that can help that out? I've seen some people use plastic truckbed liners and cut them up so the skis...

Yes, I am exaggerating. But yesterday was one of the worst and most prolonged dust events that I can remember. The type of dust storm that I could see myself referring to 10 years from now, as in...

Spring season pretty much ended today around here. Must be an inch of dust on what was shaping up to be a pretty nice spring snowpack.

dust within yesterday's new snow as well. That makes 3 in the past 10 days, and if we're getting dust right now, that would be #4. :(

Fun day on the quill last friday.

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Saturday was OK, you know, for Colorado and all...

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pretty sweet

Not my photo- belongs to the Crested Butte Avalanche Center. I'm sure you know someone there?

BTW, the bowl is now known as lucky boy because several years ago a group was touring up the bowl...

"Lucky Boy" slide path, today, on Whetstone (photo from the CBAC):

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2-3x more snow than Gratz predicted for CB. Gonna be a mellow tour today after last night's 3" an hour storm (per the CBAC)

Edit to add: Glad we didn't wake up early to use one of our days at...

yeah, not sure why Joel has summit getting double cb when it's the perfect wind direction for us. guess we'll see either way.

kinda wondering if this is yet another windy storm coming in with...

Just keeps getting better. Great runs today. Clouds came in around noon, snowing now.

Nothing to see here now that the lifts are done. Link.

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^ what would you prefer out of curiosity?

^^ Ha, so true. And I totally agree, most skis you can say, "OK, I see what you want to do. I don't personally like what you want to do, but I could see how someone likes what you do." ...

Sadly, this might be the biggest storm of the year now that the lifts aren't spinning. Still had a good lap after work. still coming down
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Hate to break up the Dynastar love-fest, but... My better half (mtnbikerskierchick) skied the women's Cham 107 at SIA On-snow and it was one of her least favorite skis of the day. I skied the HM 107...

Yeah, one of the better storms this season on this side of the Elks as well, and still coming down.

But, since this thread is more about butthurtz, here goes: major dust event, at least here and...

dumping huge flakes and no wind in cb