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11-28-2016, 02:51 PM #26Registered User
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11-28-2016, 02:53 PM #27
nice try, troll
edit to note that one sentence deleted his troll-y commentsskid luxury
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11-28-2016, 03:13 PM #28Banned
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FWIW, when Mt. Baker is reporting "Machine Groomed" surface conditions that means all that's worth riding is the stuff that's been groomed and sometimes not even that
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11-28-2016, 03:25 PM #29Registered User
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11-28-2016, 03:30 PM #30
yawn
skid luxury
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11-28-2016, 03:31 PM #31
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11-28-2016, 08:06 PM #32Guest
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J Hole (as called in Silicon Valley) will not be skiable until Feb 1 (seriously). They are starting to build their base Dec 1 and as rocky and steep as the mountain is it will take over 100" to have a skiable base. So you guys are looking at a 2 month season. Feb and March.
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11-28-2016, 08:16 PM #33Registered User
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11-28-2016, 09:07 PM #34
Truth. Pretty much everywhere else will ski better than Jackson this year. I thought about leaving town for the winter, but I'm really stoked about the new BBQ joints opening up. Finally we can have serious food discussions instead of the same old taco conversation. Anymore, Jackson is more of a food destination than a ski town.
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11-28-2016, 09:17 PM #35Banned
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I mostly go for the beer, but yeah, I suppose the food is worth the trip too.
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11-28-2016, 09:33 PM #36Guest
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11-28-2016, 09:53 PM #37
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11-28-2016, 09:55 PM #38
Yeah, you guys should probably just cancel your plans for Jackson this year. I'm sure I'll be skiing lots of hard pack, but will report back if any of you dentists need to rent some groomer skis and make the trip.
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11-28-2016, 10:16 PM #39
Just got home to my car buried under a foot in the Big Holes. And I won a Targhee Pass (already have one). Solid start to the week.
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11-29-2016, 06:31 AM #40Registered User
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Targhee opens Thursday.
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11-29-2016, 11:16 AM #41"College sailing isn't about who wins the most races, its about who can stand in the morning"
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11-29-2016, 12:57 PM #42Registered User
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Not exactly. JH shows 2 numbers on their website. The higher number is from the Rendezvous Bowl station at 9580. This number is arguably not representative of most of the ski area, which gets far less snow.
So I wouldn't say they are cooking the books (what they report is a real number), but maybe being somewhat misleading. The mid-mountain number would be more accurate for the whole resort.
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11-29-2016, 01:06 PM #43
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11-29-2016, 03:38 PM #44Registered User
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What I was specifically thinking about when I said "cooks the books" was how the JH website straight up compared their snow totals to other resorts. Those comparisons were often JH's summit totals vs other ski area's mid-mountain or even base area numbers. I don't know if they are going to continue to do that this season or not.
Not a huge deal and I know it's just marketing department stuff.
I will bow out know because I really do love the skiing and mountain biking there. It would be a great place to live.
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11-29-2016, 04:03 PM #45Guest
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To be honest resorts like Jackson Hole and Whistler with huge vertical do have a point in moving their snow recording up the mountain a bit. I mean if Whistler reported their base snow levels then their annual snowfall would be a pathetic 30" a year instead of a better (but still pathetic) wet 350" a year. I think Squaw is the worst offender imho though. Squaw will have a downpour of rain over %90 of the mountain but at the tippy top of Granite Chief it will be snow so they will report a storm total of 30" even though %90 of the mountain is bare. Complete bullshit.
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11-30-2016, 10:51 AM #46
I have some 181 ON3P Wrens collecting dust, mounted with Griffons. In great shape, couple of pro fixed coreshots. These things are burly and have a lifetime left in them. Don't want to ship, $100 local deal? In Victor but can meet over the hill.
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11-30-2016, 11:22 AM #47Registered User
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11-30-2016, 03:42 PM #48
Also, anybody have a line on a level 1 refresher at some point this season? Homemadesalsa, you out there?
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11-30-2016, 06:14 PM #49
On the other side of the Great Potato, lowly Bogus Basin adopted a new method of reporting last year wherein they multiplied the measured snow water equivalent by an assumed average density of their choosing. If their numbers were correct, specifically for density, we'd have been skiing waist-deep blower on a weekly basis. I don't doubt that the SNOTEL measured SWE correctly.
Evidently, no mountain is too small to inflate their snowfall totals.
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11-30-2016, 08:49 PM #50
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