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

Originally Posted by telek

Agreed! (on the jumping off stuff part)

You lose a glove perhaps?

Here's an edited version of my day on Sunday. Looked fun yesterday... is it staying cold and fluffy up there still?

That tree skiing is intense. Amazing. Tele still rules the mountain!

Nice TeleK! Great music choice and I liked that air into waterfall.
Snow was still great yesterday, but anything that got too much sun got a zipper crust installed on top by the afternoon. Sheltered and Steeper N-NE facing lines should be $$ for a while longer. It's warming up fast though. Trees are dropping bombs today.

Originally Posted by snowsnake

Awesome thanks a bunch...just heard a target of 1 hour to reopen from caltrans worker...

80 Idiots:


And this clown:

Im sorry but if you were stuck in the sunday shit show to witness above idiocracy you are therefor found guilty of being an idiot by association... Plus you missed monday which was beyond epic!

Let me guess, they both passed you prior to the pics.

Originally Posted by 4matic

telek still rules the mountain!

fixed it for ya

Loving the photo and video stoke from the weekend! I remembered to take my camera out for a couple laps on St. Patty's day. Here is a short and mellow edit.



Song: Alone in Kyoto - Air.

put a fork in it ...
...at least til next storm

I've never seen the best conditions of the year go to the worst conditions of year in 24 hours like that. I bailed on my partners 1/2 way up west shore due to everything turned to saturated unrideable mank. I mean it was terrible on a SNOWBOARD. I'm pretty sure no snow on any aspect got spared today.

^^^^so true. best to worst day of the year just like THAT. trees are raining and even on north aspects there are water droplets on the surface. unrideable quad burning backseat survivin. at least i have some work starting tomorrow so i wont feel so bad about not skiing. gonna take awhile to consolidate. eeeeeeeesh

Oh well.

The last 3 days have been awesome. I remembered why I live here.

Since we're posting road shit-show pictures, here was my favorite of the bunch I passed on highway 50 on Sunday (there were at least a dozen incidents). Driver was lucky those dense trees were there - must have been going pretty fast to blow through the guardrail like that.

A huge thanks to whoever retrieved my ski this morning off of Headwall. I lost it near the end of the day yesterday; went back this morning to get it and somebody else already did the work for me. I owe you a beer.

Originally Posted by Marhankins

Loving the photo and video stoke from the weekend! I remembered to take my camera out for a couple laps on St. Patty's day. Here is a short and mellow edit..

That got really going near the end.
Nice huck progression. I liked.

Originally Posted by Tyrone Shoelaces

Oh man i didnt know that about Sierra....

Indeed there was a small inbounds slide at KW today. Broke just below the traverse out to Palisades...and run a ways into the first gully skiers right of the first "sign line". They shut down 6 immediately. Heard about 1 partial burial (dont have details beyond that) and then once i realized they needed help with probing the drebris path for the possibility of others i went up to help probe with a bunch of other volunteers. Must have been 40 of us probing for 2 hrs or so. Snapped the attached pic while waiting for more probes to arrive.

Then i got stuck there for a few hours, then inched my way down 88 to Folsom behind numerous accidents spinouts and general mayhem. Took me 4.5 hrs to get home (normally takes 1.5 - 2). Just walked in the door at midnight. Exhausted.

I think you snapped a pic of me (green jacket) - pretty hilarious. From what I could tell it look like 6"~12" crown though it was kind of tough to see from where I was. Do we know what happened to the individual - hope they are good? That avy was super deep in the middle (a good 2 feet deeper than my 330 cm probe). Scary.

Just wanted to +1 to how sweet monday was. Got pretty much first dibs on 6,10,thunder and palisades by 2 pm it was getting a thick.

Well after the full retard of the last few days, Vailywood did get the full effect of the tropical tail today, when the ridges weren't fogged in, previous mounds of tracked were turning to full on gorilla glue mash. A few funnish laps in the am before it turned to a sauna.

Originally Posted by kidwoo

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Sick dude!

Heres an edit from the last few days before it got hot. Nothing too rowdy as most of it was filmed in the side country and we kicked off a few minor slides both days!

Originally Posted by BGnight

put a fork in it ...
...at least til next storm

I've never seen the best conditions of the year go to the worst conditions of year in 24 hours like that. I bailed on my partners 1/2 way up west shore due to everything turned to saturated unrideable mank. I mean it was terrible on a SNOWBOARD. I'm pretty sure no snow on any aspect got spared today.

I feel yer pain!

Figured the high north facing Chutes at Rose would stay good given the forecasted temps today but no go. Top half was skiing OK, but damn the lower flanks and runout to the chair were sticky, felt like I waxed with Elmer's.
According to the Snotel, it got to nearly 40 degrees at 8800' this afternoon Supposed to be 67 in Reno tomorrow.

on the drive to the wood the gauge was reading 37 at 9:45 over carson pass with mist. i knew it was going to suck but we went anyway and stayed til 3 and had fun. pretty sure one handed slush suck bumps has gotta help my game.

Marhankins, were you riding around with Miles on Sunday as well?

Got greedy and decided to extend my epic (conditions and timing) long weekend one more day... First two hours of riding were decent off of KT, but then the mist rolled in and the trees started raining. Oh well, it beat working.

Originally Posted by unpossible

Marhankins, were you riding around with Miles on Sunday as well?

No, I only ran into those dudes a couple times on Saturday. What an amazing weekend. I wanted to extend mine as well, but it didn't work out. Jealous of those who made it out on Monday.

Grah. Weirdest snow I've ever skied in Squaw today. After 1130 anything that looked like powder felt like mud.

People were just toppling over left and right because the snow wasn't behaving as it usually is.

0900 - 1100 in the trees on Granite Chief was still pretty nice though.

Originally Posted by Tyrone Shoelaces

you know I never actually saw how big the crown was. shortly after I snapped that little pic, I was sent to the bottom to begin a probe line that was working up toward the top and the two groups met in the middle. In the pic, there was debris field all the way down past the trees and out of view over that little roller in the distance. It fanned out a bit further to the right also.

Coop, if you are reading this, I was the guy immediately on your left in the blue jacket as we were working the line going up.

And yeah, somewhere between 8 - 9 hours drive time for me for about 5 or 6 runs.....worst drive time to ski time ratio for me ever! (although those 3 runs we got in Pali alllmmoooooost made it worth it

Evening Tyron,
Always reading, not posting to much... But listening to it all.....
Thanks for the help my friend! Thanks to everyone who assisted with the search! Your efforts and energy are what make Kirkwood, Kirkwood....
Stay Thirsty,
Coop

Went cat sking today and was pleasantly surprised by the terrain offered. North facing on the north shore skied nice until I went for a bit of a ride mid morning.
Here's the footy of the slide, i suck at embeding. be safe peeps. http://vimeo.com/38897916

Glad you're ok man. Doesn't look like much fun at all.