They shut the mountain down today?

Closed again tomorrow?

LOL

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Inbounds avalanche fatality in Tahoe yesterday. Damn, not what ya would expect
RIP

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Spent the day doing laps in the cakehole. Putting in the skinner watched Whistler SAR pull someone out who had the pleasure of spending the night out. Good reminder, don’t unwittingly follow...

Lol
Did 4 resort laps, 1 slackcountry lap. Skins are yer friend.
Longest wait of the day was 13min for 7th, got to the top and no one dropped down the N side!

11:03am
Last of 5 runs
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3 laps on Disease today couple down the ridge proper, one down the face, wasn’t moving-let those doing a course sort out the cornice first. Another 3 in the Chuting gallery, first face shots of the...

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Lots of tracks out there now, this ⬆️ was from Cowboy today.

Dunno what was up w Harmony today, didn’t open till 10:15.
Clownshoe?
Was open yesterday, weekend before Xmas, been...

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Dec 22 today and cloudy-literally the darkest day of the year.


Peeps will be able to find snow next week, maybe that’ll brighten the mood, the bottom half of the mountain is gonna get washed...

What kinda feet are ya talking about, not gonna be 9-10 feet of yankee imperial measurements. Lucky to get 9-10cms


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We are at average late October conditions. November conditions are usually better than what we have now. 2 months behind, it’s March in 10 weeks for fucks sake.



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Well that should keep ya a bit more busy…….w 10/40s


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Water?


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Just rewatched the episode after watching another couple videos of this springs Polar Star escapades.

Totally understand the Vivian fanboying, some ridiculous problem solving along the way.
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Another Coastal refugee here looking for anything better.


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Up to 25min to download at Whistler gondie mid today. Without a ski out it might be a pain on the weekend.


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70M in the hole!

Well that sucks. Really need a resort to the S to suck up some traffic. Woulda provided some great access too.

Maybe they should throw some cash Oberto’s way and get that...

Good enough!
Still a little spicy, S side w a crust but underneath.


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Did get out and get some pow over the weekend, trying to avoid all the sharks.
Horstman/Blkcmb glaciers and out the bumps to Whirlwind.
Great night and Full Moon shred out at the Russet hotel....

Sad news indeed.
Knew Wayne casually, through interactions from his blog. Great passion for wanting to share knowledge, helped the community in many ways. Took a lot of effort to do that on a daily...

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Return of El Niño.

Best case scenario is that this guy is fucked for a couple years. Reading his comments post incident he’s still ignorant of the consequence. Needs to be out of the mountains for a couple years,...

Pay parking-coming soon?

Third, Vail must share revenue if or when the company decides to bring in pay parking on the lots/parkade it owns and direct that funding towards transit and active...

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On another note, a friend who works for the mountain says to stay off 7th.
They are cannibalizing other chairs to just try and keep it running.
Fitz will close in the next 2...

Holy shitballs

Sleeper day of the year, deepest snow of the year.

Wtf




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Drove from the city to Pemby at 11 last night, took an extra 30mins, plenty of people in non capable vehicles.
Might take longer than 90min this morning



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After the shitshow crowds of Sat it was refreshing to have more snow than them and little in the way of crowds.

Nobody in the slackcountry this afternoon after riding lifts all day.



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Good summary of what we've seen in the Coast Mountains the last few years.

Heat dome the previous summer (in general) did so much damage to the glaciers.
It was somewhat obscured by the big...

It rode nice today-maybe not the best for those on 2 planks.

Isothermal layer below has yet to freeze—that’s gonna change quick.






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Epic Pass gonna deliver w Epic lines on whatever opens


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Elephant Snot at treeline

It’s a Xmas miracle!!


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Looks like more snow in the valley than Pig Alley this morning.
Lower mtn laps!


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Looks like the city is gettin all the snow! May have to make a trip S


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Dang
Always appreciate the early season peak hike laps when ya don’t have to wait and all ya do is hike around for first lines

Like Sunday…

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A night at the KC Hotel, went for a shred

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Dang it’s ugly out there.

Don’t Swill gonna be a full in chute in a couple yrs.

Gotta boot pack through rocks to get to Spearhead Col


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Harmony/Crystal

Ski out is good to the village on Whistler, trying for Creekside.

Still good snow again today in the alpine.

Doesn’t look like access to the old peak mid/surprise area is...

Didn’t see it happen.
One of then went for a ride, lost their skis, recovered em later. Got on the radio and they said they were all good, didn’t need help, so I continued w my afternoon.
Very...

Have they opened anything else up-can ya get up to the top of Harmony and out to the bumps ?


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Good laps in the Blkcmb slackcountry again today. Wind didn’t do as much damage as thought it may.
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Strolled on Excalibur w no line at 930
Lots of people on the few runs available
Couple laps on Horstman glacier w good pow in sheltered areas, wind affected in others.
Schmoo anywhere lower than...

Buchheister still anticipates an early-December opening for Big Red and says the resort has "a shot" at finishing the Gondola by the holidays.


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Any staff have a conditions report from todays staff ski day-Clownshoe?


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FYI

When the lines get huge at the base and just wanna skip em-uphill route to Excel

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Exactly

Cannot mention enough of this, it only takes a few to fuck it up for everyone.


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Parking lol.

Ya think people are gonna want to park in Creekside and catch a bus-fuck no.
They are all gonna try and jam in to the village somehow-locals and lower mainlanders.

Less...

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Super low tide but found some great turns, just need to be detailed in route choice to avoid the sharks!


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New Years is more realistic.

From what I heard, even w the good weather they ran in to a lot of delays/problems. Multiple pours for the tower bases take time(each one) and a few were fucked. ...

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