SoCal 2015/2016

[Deep Days]

Sooooo stoked to be done with my week (what feels like two) of traveling, and VERY ready for my first Schredthursdee (day trip on Thursdays starting up semi-regular)...

So. Where am I going Thursday? And whom with? Am i guaranteed core shots and broken bones if I ski off piste at Baldy at this point? If so, are groomers still pretty fun? Any good (relatively speaking) off piste stuff up at Snow Summit or Bear Mtn? Would love to ski something besides the groomers at Snow Summit, and maybe am pretty eager to check out the "expert" terrain there (suspecting there's greater quantity than at Bear Mountain until the base builds up a lot more in the trees). Legs are out of shape, so short but steep is ok with me.

Pretty torn and clueless. Any thoughts for what to do three days from now?

And anyone wanna go ski? I can pick up anywhere along i-15/ 215. I live in Kearny Mesa (central SD) and am looking to ski early to lunchtime to be back home to SD a little after 3ish (4 at latest). Happy to cover cost of gas in exchange for sharing some turns. Hit me up!

[davieboot]

So. Where am I going Thursday? And whom with? Am i guaranteed core shots and broken bones if I ski off piste at Baldy at this point?

I can't join, but I'd like to hear a first hand account if you head that way.

[whyturn]

It's good out there but could not scope baldy. Coverage in San Bernardino range and Angeles crest is quite good

[jtran10]

Sooooo stoked to be done with my week (what feels like two) of traveling, and VERY ready for my first Schredthursdee (day trip on Thursdays starting up semi-regular)...

So. Where am I going Thursday? And whom with? Am i guaranteed core shots and broken bones if I ski off piste at Baldy at this point? If so, are groomers still pretty fun? Any good (relatively speaking) off piste stuff up at Snow Summit or Bear Mtn? Would love to ski something besides the groomers at Snow Summit, and maybe am pretty eager to check out the "expert" terrain there (suspecting there's greater quantity than at Bear Mountain until the base builds up a lot more in the trees). Legs are out of shape, so short but steep is ok with me.

Pretty torn and clueless. Any thoughts for what to do three days from now?

And anyone wanna go ski? I can pick up anywhere along i-15/ 215. I live in Kearny Mesa (central SD) and am looking to ski early to lunchtime to be back home to SD a little after 3ish (4 at latest). Happy to cover cost of gas in exchange for sharing some turns. Hit me up!

If you can wait until this weekend I'd be up for some exploring. Mt Waterman will be open too I think.

[Deep Days]

Word son.

C-lady and I are planning on skiing either snow summit or big bear Sunday. Might get her to try the summit run (gulp).

I'll hit you up

[Adamantium]

So did anyone here get to Baldy this weekend? They reported the same new snow out of last week as Big Bear did (about 2 feet) which seems odd to me but whatever.

[TWINS]

Skied Baldy today.
Coverage is excellent right now "for Baldy".....
Thunder is fully covered too.
Telegraph Peak looks skiable.
Skied to the parking lot to go home.
No download ride of shame today.
Wanted to mention the snow is now consolidated so you know what you are getting into. Safe riding on the whole mountain. Follow the sun as shady spots will be frozen/ too much sun is mank. Usual Baldy conditions..

[Long duc dong]

Thanks for the info Twins. That is good to know. I will be there this weekend.

[hutash]

Another storm or two and it might be worth doing Baldy proper. It's been awhile.

[TWINS]

Yep^^^^^ Good enough to play on but we need more snow.
Today's storm didn't show up.
Sitting in my doctors office looking at the hill right now.

[jtran10]

Baldy for me this Sunday perhaps. Looks "great"! Not too excited for the weekend hordes though.

[dynameg83]

I lived in that area for a few years, always wanted to ski that mountain but never good snow/timing. Thanks for sharing the pics! sick!

[davieboot]

It looks better than I expected. I'm glad the snow is consolidating. I'm impressed you could ski to the parking lot.

[Long duc dong]

I can't remember the last time I did a lot run at Baldy. I did tons of them in 10/11, but I don't know if I have even done one since then.

[Long duc dong]

Hey Twins, or anyone who has been to Baldy, is the north facing stuff getting slushy? If so it will definitely be a matter of following the sun around. Do you know if the runs down to the lot have gotten into the slush/freeze pattern? Any info would be great.

[TWINS]

Freeze /thaw on any wind protected North face.
Its all about the wind.
And yes the North facing runs to the lot are in that catagory. When I skied to the lot Tuesday anything in the shade was refozen chopped pow. Deflection city.
Anything that was on a spine was thick mank.
Good snow sense and route finding skills will get you some great spring turns right now.
Not too cold/ not too hot. Just right
Back when we used to have snow I gaged the conditions by the wind speed /direction /snow temp.
The Baldy weather station does not give out 24 hour data anymore.
Not that sucks

[LBSki]

Anyone with any beta on conditions on Baden-Powell or Baldy proper? I might do a little poking around this weekend.

[Long duc dong]

Thanks for the info Twins. This weekend should still be fun.

[TWINS]

LBSki, there was 1 skin track up the face and 1 set of ski tracks down. Beautiful turns whoever laid them down.
Saw this a few days ago.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nkkmMu...ature=youtu.be

[hutash]

That was a boring 5 minutes, but snow coverage looked decent.

We are going to give Baden-Powell on shot on Sunday.Hoping for good turns.

[TWINS]

Posted for Baldy Proper conditions only.
You get a good idea of what is going on.
Baden Powel for the win
Throop will be good also.
Waterman opens tomorrow.

[namastesurf]

That's a nice video iTomahawk ...how do you like those DPS skis?

San Jacinto had plenty of coverage on Saturday. The terrain from tram to summit is 99% meadow skipping but its a fun little tour. Friday was probably the choice day but I was stuck at work. It was so foggy and windy up top I couldn't really scope out snow creek. Will look again next time. There was a bit of crust forming already and the snow was a little dense, which was actually fortunate since it took the brush and rocks out of play.

[hutash]

Did Baden-Powell yesterday in varied to horrible conditions. Good boot pack up the first half and last quarter with a mix of footprints inbetween. Tried to skin some of it, but too had and needed ski crampons and my binding recepticle was bent. Boot crampons balled badly, so part of the up was a pain. The down was a mix of hard ice, over cast, slight breeze and mils temps, so never softened up high. We got funneled into the main chute, which had the best (of marginal) skiing, but it wasn't filled and got rocky. Tried to traverse out but hit large bare patches and steep loose chose, so had to climb up and out across to pretty are conditions. The lower part was nasty glue like snow. There were a few reasonably fun turns in the middle, but over all not worth the effort. Wait for a new storm or for more spring like corn.

[hutash]

Speaking of ski crampons, did anybody lose one on B-P?

[Long duc dong]

Just skied Baldy and it was not fun. It did not warm up enough to soften the off-piste, so it was pretty scratchy. The only stuff that looked fun was Herb's Hollow, but I couldn't find a nice way in so I didn't bother. My run down to the lot was not good, but it is always good to get a run down to the lot. The coverage is okay, it was just too cold today.