Gravity Logic is hiring excavator operators for the 2024 build season. We have jobs on the both the East Coast and West Coast this summer.

If you're an experienced machine operator, check out the...

Hey mags,

Apologies in advance for the thread hijack. I'll delete this if the mods want.

Gravity Logic is hiring excavator operators for the 2024 build season. We have Canadian jobs on the...

Hey mags,

Gravity Logic is hiring excavator operators for the 2024 build season. We have jobs on the both the East Coast and West Coast this summer.

If you're an experienced machine operator,...

This is the type of shit slinging that keeps me coming back to this place :fmicon:

I had a good friend die ski this way touring in the Canadian Rockies back in the day. He got to a summit with his touring partners. They unroped and sat for lunch. He got up and walked 5 feet from...

That glacier has been disappearing fast over the last couple of decades. Regardless of a good snow year or a bad snow year, the trend has been for ice to disappear a bit (or a lot) more each year....

Silverton Challenger event livestream.
Snowboard men is on now.

https://freeskier.com/stories/live-stream-the-ifsa-fwt-challenger-stop-two-in-silverton-colorado

That dude who did the double front flip is this ripper J-Pac. A gnarly Frenchie who's been living in his car in the Creekside underground in Whistler for the last couple of years. He's a total...

Cody is RFK Jr's pick for VP

I call bullshit on that. There’s perhaps less dirtbags in town, but everything gets skied out as fast or faster than before. People ski every inch of the mountain immediately once the lifts open.

Harmony opened at 1230. Peak opened at 1330.

Powder to the people.

One of the deepest/driest pow days I can remember. All time laps in the morning. Still dumping to the valley at 14:00. It warmed up and was raining at 1200 metres when we finished sweep at 17:30. ...

Whistler's snow whispers,
Quintuple overhead bliss,
Conditions acceptable.

I concur

My prediction for tomorrow: no alpine lifts due to wind. Possibility of mid mountain lifts also getting shut down due to winds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw1Vi9hQsb0

Stan Rey's video about being a wildcard at the Kicking Horse event.

Stan is an absolute boss. You can pretty regularly see him shredding around WB. ...

Whistler Freeride Club with 3 out of the top 10 in ski men!

After all these years, the craziest part of this story, even more than this guy packing a gun on a ski tour in case of wolves, is the thought of trying to put your ski boots on while they’re already...

I believe the Euros refer to this as dry skiing.

Not something I’d ever care to attempt but it made for a hell of an entertaining video!

From Saturday:

Lower mountain is extremely icy. Ski outs are surprisingly fine (Whistler anyway), but everything not in reach of snowmaking is in rough shape. Below midstation there's...

Here's some lunacy that the algorithm brought to my attention

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6ul5LbXIwM

As a patroller I've been left on a chairlift at the end of the day at least a couple of times over the years.
Sit there for 15-20 minutes waiting for the chair to start again...
Pull out the...

Baqueira Beret stop is cancelled.

https://www.freerideworldtour.com/events/2024-baqueira-beret-pro/

Are there any Euro mags in the area who can comment on the conditions right now?

I love these master planning maps. The Whistler one with all the possible lifts is pretty wild.

Devil’s advocate thought on the loss of the Blackcomb t-bars (from a guy who mainly skis Whistler)

Having some in bounds terrain as hike only access is a good thing. It keeps an almost pow stash...

Could that be a rock?
Only one way to find out
Light the p-tex stick

There are so many factors that affect when the avalanche control is finished and when the high alpine chairs open. It’s essentially impossible to know without having inside beta. You can get a good...

(Haiku idea stolen from rock ski haiku thread)

Powder slopes gleaming,
Giant lineups, eager hearts,
North winds, great skiing.

Old Solomon skis
We have ripped so much deep pow
Now you will taste dirt

Competition season is underway in Whistler!

A 2 Star junior event is underway and runs for 3 days. U12, U15, and U18 categories. The venue is McConkey's in the Harmony Zone. The area is named...

Skis on rocks collide,
barren slopes, no snow to hide,
echoes in the void.

They were throwing bombs in flute this morning. They prefer to not open harmony until the bombing is done because people are unwilling to abide by avalanche closures.

The Valemont project looks amazing, based solely on the lift alignments and the terrain it would access.

Cool little town with great biking too.

Unfortunately it seems to be in the category...

Pow day. Good times today above bottom of Emerald!

Anything forecast by the GFS beyond 3 days is a pipe dream. Until it shows up on the NAM I don't believe it.

(Fingers crossed though)

Slight thread drift while we wait for comps to start:

I'm contemplating a Yurp trip to coincide with the Verbier comp. Bucket list item for me. Can any euro mags give me some beta? Is it possible...

In the end I just want them to build some lifts and open. Yeah global warming, low elevation, too close to the ocean, real estate cash grab, and all that. But I just want another place for Seattle...

Lee,
Can you decipher the lawyer speak here?

They rearranged the company last week and now they’re going bankrupt? Is this the project circling the drain?

Peak opening is imminent. My sources say today or tomorrow

Amazing.
(the colour of the text is hard for my old man eye's to read. Would've prefered white text)

Hell yeah. A couple more cm’s then forecast. Decent

Garbage conditions today. 50 mm of rain to the Peak overnight. Slush this morning, refreezing throughout the day. More bare patches on the lower mountain. It felt like early May conditions up there...

There are multiple open crevasses in Whistler Bowl

Beauty work. That's excavator work done by hand! Holy shit.

My neighbours and I used to turn a blind eye to people parking in our condo's overflow lot (Whistler). As long as they were discreet no one said anything. This summer when the snow melted we found a...

Opening day report: Low tide coral reef conditions, but not as bad as expected. Skied a couple inbounds laps and a couple lower mountain off piste laps. Lots of rocks/ditches/logs/stumps. Skied to...

Unofficial update:

Low tide/WROD conditions confirmed on Whistler.

Expect to be downloading from the Roundhouse.

It looks like conditions will permit open avalanche sign lines to tour...

That was a really fun race. Exceeded expectations for sure.

Yeah fair enough. I’d be into the spectacle of it all. I think I’d spring for a more expensive package so I could do more than just sit in the grandstands.

I’ll go to at least one race in my life...