Thread: Snow in the PNW

I'll be up at Crystal tomorrow. On Praxis probably, with a silver helmet, brown jacket and dark blue pants.

Originally Posted by spindrift

Not unless there's a bunch more snow. It skied pretty nicely the past couple of days. And this morning there was enough to keep you off the ice (at least on the front where we skied). But a bunch of it got fairly warm & crusty & tracked out by afternoon.

Interestingly, the groomers packed to an ice-like consistency by noon-ish. I thought Daisy was nastier & more hazardous (esp factoring in moving & semi-moving objects) than 7th, etc. had been at the opening. Go figure.

Damn.

Now I'm really starting to think about heading north of the border...

A few from Crystal today:

Originally Posted by Neurodoc

^^^

Pontoons for this weekend, then, I'm thinking...

I'm thinking pontoons would have been good today, not so much moving forward...Shit'll be skied out and if it gets colder...death cookies galore

I'd ski the small skis at stevens until we get more snow...the disclaimer being that I am a gaper

Holy pow, Batman!

hows the coverage up at stevens now? good neought o bring out the lhasa pows for their maiden voyage? or should i stick with the more rock skis?

Originally Posted by Velillen

hows the coverage up at stevens now? good neought o bring out the lhasa pows for their maiden voyage? or should i stick with the more rock skis?

I skied Stevens on wednesday, billygoated all over the place and hit no rocks. I was on demo EP pro's and was confident that things were solid. bring your lhasa's

Stevens was damn good today. Pow was still pretty soft on the frontside. Peanut butter on the back.

What's Steven's gonna be like Sunday? I know, I looked at the weather, I just don't have enough experience going up there to make the call.

^ Right now it's raining, 33/37 degrees base/top. The snow yesterday was like cream of wheat so today it is probably wet cement. As long as that stuff doesn't freeze solid and/or there is enough new to bury the chunky leftovers then it could be ok.

Game day call. The Stevens snow report is pretty honest, if it says powder or soft snow it should be fun, variable or mixed is code for crap.

Some stoke from Mt. Rainier

cheers, Benjamin Krause

Prints also available for the mt. rainier tent shot.

^Nice! How'd you do that tent shot?!

Originally Posted by bossass

^Nice! How'd you do that tent shot?!

Thanks! I leave headlamps in the tents. In the one with Mt. Rainier I strobed my flash about 10 times then went back to sleep

those are some sweet shots benk.

I decided that skiing in the rain on stupid heavy snow isnt that much fun, so no stevens today.

Why did the colder air part around stevens to head north to Baker and south to xstal?

I just got back from a week away from the PNW.


What are the mountains looking like? Stevens?

not sure about the resorts, which are probably deathly icy, but yodelin was fast, fun surface hoar on a firm crust the other day.

yodelin from the top...


surface hoar: such a bitch, but so fun to ski...



looks like the snow is finally about to return though. to baker at least. woooooey!

Snowing in downtown PDX. Gimme another couple feet and i'm going to huck the retaining wall in my parking lot.

Originally Posted by PhiberAwptik

Snowing in downtown PDX. Gimme another couple feet and i'm going to huck the retaining wall in my parking lot.

Just heard the same from my buddy. Send it northerly and deposit some into my mountains.

Originally Posted by skiingsamurai

I just got back from a week away from the PNW.


What are the mountains looking like? Stevens?

not sure but im headed up tomorrow if your up for it. Be on lhasa 186's.

THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY THAT
THE CENTRAL CASCADES AND THE OLYMPICS COULD RECEIVE 6 TO 12 INCHES
OF SNOW BY LATE THU...IT IS POSSIBLE THAT A WINTER STORM WATCH MAY BE NEEDED
FOR THE OLYMPICS AND CASCADES FOR NEW YEAR EVE THRU NEW YEARS DAY.

Happy New Year!

The next 4 days is something I have been waiting for all year. Big storm and time off. Though I'm kind of bummed I don't have a Meadows pass this year.

Bachelor and Hood have big forecasts for Thursday night, Too bad I'm not supposed to be down there until next week

1cm on my deck in Glacier!!! Out come the Pontoons. Thanks Shane.

Baker.
Friday.
Finally.

Blue Jacket, black pants & helmet, old yeller Atuas.

Ask for change...as you spray past the above-described d00d making first mellow turns on a freshly-reconstructed knee.


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Nice to hear, Moss. Hope the rebuild is as good as new.