Thread: 11/12 Tahoe Weather, Conditions, Stoke, and What's Up Thread... IT'S BAAAAAAAACK!!!

Originally Posted by ShawnB

A little more experimenting with the angles, color, and follow-cam. Edit of yesterday's not-so-secret stashes:

Nice edit! The snow looked good. You took some hot sauce into the trees after waterfall, and definitely got an 'oh shit' out of me.

I saw you around on Wednesday (pretty sure based on that video and the pants anyway). Next time I'll say hello.

Originally Posted by brannen

Sup Tahoe-ians?
If anyone wants to drink and ski on Pattys Day (saturday), hit me up
http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/s...tings-Good-POV

Originally Posted by Jim S

ROSE CHUTES: the electronic signs at the bottom of the lifts would say CHUTES GATES CLOSED but they actually were open.

Wind is crazy howling all night so it should be buffed out when they open in 7-1/2 hours from now.

We followed the direction of Ski Patrol and got into the Chutes before they got tracked. With the wet snow we had yesterday, we knew it had the potential to get jankey pretty quick.
I had to leave about 1:30 so don't know how the day ended, but I overheard a radio conversation of a patroller that they were going to re-evaluate the Chutes. Not sure what happened after that.

SInce I rarely ski weekends, how big of a shitshow are we looking at tomorrow?

I'm thinking (hoping) it won't be quite as bad as it normally would be because of all the rain during the week, which may have scared off a lot of people from the bay area. I'm going to take my chances at VailWood on Sunday (which I'm guessing will be much better than Saturday).

Originally Posted by snapt

SInce I rarely ski weekends, how big of a shitshow are we looking at tomorrow?

thanks everyone for vouching for kwatta, seems like he's pretty legit.

As of right about now, we have achieved dumpage in tahoe donner. wax on and wack off, Daniel-san. It's sticking like spunk in Cameron Diaz' hair. Here's tanuki just as the clear snow started sticking to his balls:

FWIW there was zero line on KT Wed. Whether that means a lot of people have bailed/given up/were laid off or whether folks were just waiting for better and more snow I have no idea.

Jesus titty fucking christ just when I get over a cold and am excited to shred pow this shit just moved into my lungs and morphed into some other piece of shit illness. I'M SHREDDING POW THE NEXT 4 DAYS IF IT FUCKING KILLS ME!!!

Nice edit ShawnB!

Originally Posted by ShawnB

A little more experimenting with the angles, color, and follow-cam. Edit of yesterday's not-so-secret stashes:




Stuff next to and below rocks is still pretty icy. I have fingers crossed that we'll see some inspiringly deep landings showing up sometime soon (I'm talking to you, Mr. Moisture Just Sitting There in the Gulf of Alaska), as bigger stuff is just waiting to come into play...

nice! nice!
Stoked to hit that tomorrow with a little more thin powder on top of it!

Good cam and good skiing. Liked watching it and looking forward to any improvements you make too.

RAH!

Originally Posted by snapt

SInce I rarely ski weekends, how big of a shitshow are we looking at tomorrow?

Depends on whether 80 stays open. My money says it closes.

Originally Posted by BGnight

Jesus titty fucking christ just when I get over a cold and am excited to shred pow this shit just moved into my lungs and morphed into some other piece of shit illness. I'M SHREDDING POW THE NEXT 4 DAYS IF IT FUCKING KILLS ME!!!

That's just God punishing you for your political views.

Originally Posted by BGnight

Jesus titty fucking christ just when I get over a cold and am excited to shred pow this shit just moved into my lungs and morphed into some other piece of shit illness.

Originally Posted by The Dad

That's just God punishing you for your political views.

I'm pretty sure it's the chemtrails.

I have political views?

and it's not chemtrails, it's the GMO! Damn you Monsanto!!!

Originally Posted by The Dad

Depends on whether 80 stays open.

Dear god I hope you're wrong!

Dear God I hope he's right! Ullr needs to keep the gapers away for locals. Well, just from the west. I need I 80 east to stay open

In-bound avi takes out Mountain Run @ Squaw?? (from FB)

Originally Posted by Empty Beer

In-bound avi takes out Mountain Run @ Squaw?? (from FB)

I heard the same, but with fb it could be the same source. Still, makes me pause as I leave now for northstar. Would love to buddy up if anyone else is there. 510,393,307two

Edit: have woodchuck cider and a pbr to share. Look for yellow/white jacket, black pants and helmet with red giggle strap, black bca backpack.

The Dad and I are thinking the same thing. If I were going to Tahoe tonight, I'd be leaving now. I'd be surprised if 80 doesn't close at least for some portion of this evening/night. Me? I'm going to Davis momentarily to watch my kids' Robotics competition at UCD. Driving up tomorrow after the finals.

Definitely a slide across home run, good size debris pile to pick through. I'm not sure whether or not it happened during avy control or later. Been hoping for gold coast/shirley, but gold coast just stopped moving...

Originally Posted by The Dad

Depends on whether 80 stays open. My money says it closes.

The real question is whether anyone can get OFF of 80 since the Squalpine backup on 89 will be past donner summit. All those cars will be sitting there while it dumps and one could probably make a few bucks helping them dig out when things finally start moving around 3. That means you get to ski their pow and take their money

Originally Posted by lepistoir

... red giggle strap ...

teehee!!!

Originally Posted by lepistoir

The real question is whether anyone can get OFF of 80 since the Squalpine backup on 89 will be past donner summit. All those cars will be sitting there while it dumps and one could probably make a few bucks helping them dig out when things finally start moving around 3. That means you get to ski their pow and take their money

Thank god I have a sugar bowl pass, no way I'm going to try to make alpine tomorrow.

Here's pics of the KT slide.

http://unofficialnetworks.com/avalanche-kt-83633/

After all of the mini wet slides I was seeing Wednesday, can't say I'm all that surprised.

^^^edit, those pics are insane. Beacon or no, looks like that thing would beat you to a pulp. Hope is slide when things were closed.

Sat or Sun. Tough call. Headed to KW.

Starting to look like this thing is moving through early and quick. Gonna get dumped on tonight, and winds look like they will die by morning. If the road stays open and 6 pops early, I'd want to be up there. Thoughts on this? Will KW dig out early? They seem to be doing a solid job this year of getting things open. Don't really want to show up Sunday and only have hiking as an option. OTOH, don't want to drive all night, wait at the pass, finally get to the valley and have 6 standing still.

Don't care too much about the backside, but it would be an even bigger bummer to see that open on Saturday from my living room couch.

For those who have been up there this week, how have operations been? And if anyone wants to PM me at 2AM with storm details, I'll be checking the computer before I hit the road.

I'd push harder for two days, cept it looks like its gonna keep on snowing all month.

Almost went to work today cause the sound of the rain all night was kinda depressing. Really fun day though, snow skied bottomless for the most part, some wind refills besides the snow coming down all day. Almost no one on the hill, did not even have to work hard to get fresh tracks till we called it at 1:30 to save plenty of gas for hopefully an Epic Saturday.

Big fat flakes finally coming down at the house right now.

And another big thumbs up for kwatta!